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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
VICE PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEE TAKEN I'LL
JAMES S. SHERMAN CANCELS
ALL HIS ENGAGEMENTS
Sickness Result of Hard Work at Re-
publican National Convention,
Coupled with Excessive
Heat In Cincinnati
Ry Associated Press.

ny ASSOCIATED fTess
CLEVELAND. O.. June 22.--James s.
Sherman, Republican nominee for vice
president, has been i'll here for two
days. His Illness will necessitate his
remaining here until tomorrow.
Mr.. Sherman, on his way from Gin
cinnati to Cleveland Saturday night,
was seized by a bilious attack. On
arrival here he went to the home OF
Myron T. Herrick. former governor OF
Ohio, whose guest he was to be over
Sunday. He was compelled to go Inn
mediately to his room.
He was unable to see any one either
yesterday or today. He had a large
number Of important conferences
scheduled to take place In this city and
was compelled to break them ill.
The physician who was summoned to
attend his said that no one should be
admitted to the room and that MI
Sherman should not be disturbed
There was nothing to alarm at any
time in the patients condition. His
| Illness is believed to have been the re-
suit of hard work at the Republican
national convention, the forced keeping
of unusual hours aud the heat in Gin
cinnati where he went with the sub
committee OF the national committee
Friday to meet Secretary Taft.
His physician tonight had no doubt
that Mr. Sherman will be able to con-
tinue his journey to Utica tomorrow
morning, as the attack is at end. The
present plan is for him to leave Cleve-
land at o'clock tomorrow morning FOL
his home in Utica, N. Y. accompanied
by his secretary and one or two friends
A welcome home demonstration was
prepared tonight for him at Utica, but
1t had to be declared on.
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PRESIDENT SPENDS DAY
IN PRACTICAL sEcLusIoN

OYSTER BAY. L. L. June 22.-In
practical seclusion today ana to great
extent free from official cares, Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Sycamore hill spent
the hottest hours reading and attend
ing to only such official business as re-
quired his immediate attention, when
Secretary Loeb called.
Late in the day the president took
his daily exercise.
A movement is on foot among some
Of the citizens OF the village to petition
the president to ask Secretary Taft to
make a speech to the people when he
visits Sycamore hill this week.
The president will have nothing to
say regarding the report from Boston
that he has interceded with President
Eliot of Harvard in behalf of the two
members of Harvard varsity crews
who were dismissed. He will neither
affirm nor deny the matter.
From Secretary Loeb nothing could
be learned regarding his possible APP
pointment by the subcommittee as
chairman of the national committee. 1t
is believed that during Secretary Taft's
visit some course of action In the mat
ter would be decided upon.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
PASADENA
Office 1e w. Colorado st.
Phones. Sunset IS. Home -.
HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI
AT HOTEL MARYLAND
WELL ATTENDED RECEPTION
is GREAT SUCCESS
Decorations Are Most Elaborate and
Graduates Present Screaming
Farce Amid Tumultuous
Applause of Audience
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
PASADENA, June 22.-The largest
high school alumni reception ever held
here was voted great success this
evening at the Hotel Maryland. Grad
yates and friends, members of the fa-
Guilty and invited guests, all gathered
together around the banquet tables, and
afterward danced.
The decorations in the school colors
of crimson and white were elaborate.
Passing the portieres of the bronze room
made Of white ribbons, the visitors saw
q frieze all around the walls composed
of 'OS remnants banked in ferns. A
huge basket of red and white carna-
lions was suspended from the ceiling
by smilax chains, while an immense
reproduction of the class pin, in red
geraniums and gallardias, was sus-
pended above the POSTMASTER, Princi-
pal Leroy D. Ely.
Roy Kellogg, Harry Ross and Luther
Severy, three graduates, now at Stan
ford, made the hit of the evening by
introducing one of the college farces.
Kellogg impersonated George AIDE; Ross
took Off Gustav Luders, Frank Pix
ley's musical composer, while Severy,
as Sally the devoted mother, gave
realistic illustration of Eliza crossing
the ice. The farce as a whole was re-
hearsal of musical comedy which
George Ade'' supposedly had just writ
ten, and the audience screamed from
the beginning to the end.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
WILL RECEIVE CONGRESSMAN
McLAcHLAN WEDNESDAY NEXT

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, June 22.-Seward A.
Simons has been chosen to make the
opening address on behalf of the board
of trade at the reception to Congress-
man McLachlan Wednesday evening at
the Maryland.
Simons will also introduce Oscar
Lawler, United States district attor-
ney, who will be the principal speaker
OF the evening. Lawler has made the
nominating speech on the last two or
three occasions when the congressman
has run for any office.
Members of the Lincoln Roosevelt
Republican league looked very solemn
when informed today who the speakers
would be. The league has no official
connection with the reception, which
is given under the auspices of the
board of trade, but several members
intimated that, while they could appre-
ciate McLachlan as a fellow citizen,
they could hardly appreciate Lawler
and Simons in any political capacity.
McLachlan, who will arrive here
Tuesday on the limited, WILL of course,
reply. Other prominent men will be
called upon for a few remarks.
The Pasadena band will play during
the evening. The reception is entirely
informal and the public and their fam
lilies are invited.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
IMPORT CHINESE HAIR FOR
AMERICAN W0MEN'S RATS
Ton of PIstails from Bandits Who
Have Been Beheaded Brought to
New York In Big Freighter
Wray Castle

NEW YORK, June ga ton of
Chinese hair for the traits" Of Ameri-
can women formed part Of the cargo
of the big freighter, Wray Castle,
which has just arrived from the ORR
ent. The hair came from the heads OF
Chinese bandits who had been be-
headed and is valued at more than
$4,000
Enough of this hair is on board the
Wray Castle to provide thousands of
American girls with the necessary
"filling," and great care was taken
on the freighter to keep 1t from ex-
posture of any sort that might spoil 1t
for the market in the United States.
Hardly had the consignment Of the
Chinese hair been brought to the
American docks on Staten island be-
fore the British steamer Seneca arrived
at quarantine with twenty-five cases
of Chinese pigtails, which, according
to Captain Grimes, were collected In
Chinese cemeteries by a crafty Amer1-
can, who collected the gruesome SOU
venirs for profit in three months plum
der in Chinese burial grounds. !.
1.-THE gathering of hair in China"
said Captain Grimes. sis quite an In
is placed In hole in the ground in an
upright position, with the head stick
ing out of the ground. The head is
closely shaved for the pigtail. The
Chinese believe that their big joss
comes around in the night and takes
the soul of the buried one to heaven
by the pigtail After the first visitation
of the Americans with their shears the
brothers and sisters OF the buried Chi
nese report that the joss had been busy
with their relative and were content in
the belief that the joss had lifted the
souls to heaven by the missing pig
taiIu
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
PASADENA BRIEF NOTES
Special to The Herald.


PASADENA, June 22.--Leaders of the
religious and philanthropic work in
Pasadena will make a vigorous effort
to have all minors prevented from en-
tering pool rooms for any reason what
ever A large number will meet in a
body tomorrow morning and march to
the session of the city council, where
they will present their resolutions and
urge the necessity for action.
Pasadena will follow the example of
Los Angeles and have a tag day.
Thursday for the benefit of Associated
Charities.
Mrs. c. r. Douglass, wife of Rev. c..
It. Douglass, for number of years
pastor of the First Baptist church
here, has died in Palo Alto.
Forty members of Pasadena council
No. ITO, Royal Arcanum, went to Los
Angeles on special car tonight to
assist in the reception to the supreme
and grand regents of the order.
A. F. Long, a brickmason, arrested
last night for drunkenness, will have
a good opportunity to sober up. Judge
Klamroth this morning imposed a Jail
sentence of twenty days, as Long is an
old offender,
The annual picnic of the Lake Ave-
nue. Methodist church Sunday school
will be held tomorrow at Playa del
Rey. About $50 will go down in spe-
cial cars.
The First Baptist church and Sunday
school will hold their annual picnic at
Long Beach tomorrow The children
of the Sunday school will have free
transportation.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
VENICE BREAkWATER
SWEPT BY COMBERS
Abbot Kinney Company Offers to Do
Extra Work If Government Will
Establish Shore Station
in Neighborhood
Special to Ihe Herald

Special to ihe Herald
OCEAN PARK, June 22.-Without
there being any apparent local cause
for it. great rollers again dashed the
shore today from Long Wharf to a
point south of Playa del Rey. The sea
was heaviest to the southwark. Point
Dimas affording protection for the
northern section in which the Long
Wharf stands.
The Kinney breakwater at Venice
scarce served as barrie when the
tide was high, and the seas broke
clean over, the spray falling in cas-
cades upon Windward pier. The sloop
Amy, moored inside the breakwater.
was struck by wave that toppled
across the stone work. She broke
away from her anchorage, turned tur-
tie and all the rigging was torn out OF
her. The hull was saved by Bleaching
it, The craft Is the property OF. Sher-
wood Kinney.
While the breakwater has demon
strated it's usefulness as protection
to wharf property between 1t and the
shore, 1t Is now acknowledged by the
builders that it is not high enough.
The stone used in Its construction was
brought down from Chatsworth park,
Ventura county, and 1t is now proposed
to bring more Of the granite and make
the sea barrier higher.
The Abbot Kinney company has Of
fered to do this If the United States
government will establish an army and
navy shore station in close proximity
to Venice. 1t would then be a neces-
sity. for the landing stage used by
boats from the war vessels Is now too
low to be always safely accessible in
rough weather.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
cHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND
REMAINS DEBATED POINT
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, June 22.-The board of
city commissioners this afternoon
tabled the proposition to set aside a
third of Library park for children's
playground. On account of the absence
of Commissioner Hertel, the other
members deemed it advisable to take
no action until next week.
1t was suggested to Commissioners
Windham that one-third of the park,
or three acres. was a pretty liberal al
lowance for a playground. The board
decided to make a tour of inspection
and will probably set aside what por-
ton of the park 1t thinks is needed,
without regard to its exact size, in
case the bill is passed.
Commissioner Schiffman suggested
that the different civic bodies should
combine and help the city to pay for a
competent supervisor for the proposed
playground. He states that this is the
custom in most eastern cities.
Upon a report from Fire Chief Cliff
ford that the electric wiring in the old
portion of the Dayton fire house did
not conform with the city ordinance, it
was ordered changed. The chief was
also given permission to purchase three
dozen straw hats for the comfort OF
his men during hot weather.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
LIEUT.. CONE coMPLIMENTED
BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

MARE ISLAND. June 22.-Lieut.
Hutch 1. Cone, who brought the Attain
tic torpedo flotilla to the Pacific. re-
ceived letter from President Roose-
welt commencing him and the officers
and men of the mosquito craft.
The letter is dated at the White
House, and after stating that the en-
circling of South America by the bat
tleship fleet was a feat which had re-
ceived much deserved attention, the
president says:
"Yet II I should draw any distinction
at all 1t would be In favor of you and
your associates who have taken out the
torpedo f1otilla. Yours Is even more
notable feat"
The president closed with thanking
the officers and men. The letter was
read by the commanding officer of each
torpedo boat to his officers and men.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
INTEND TO GUARD BABIES
FROM FEAR OF INFECTION
Ocean Park Health officer Asks City
Trustees to Pass Ordinance for
Regulation Of All Dairy
Establishments
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
OCEAN PARK, June 22.-Dr. w. H.
Kendall, health officer, has asked the
city trustees to enact a new ordinance
fixing health requirements at the dozen
or more dairies which supply milk to
local consumers. 1t will legalize the
tuberculosis test of all mich cows, and
the killing by the city of any found to
be infected. The law will be modelled
after the one in operation in Pasadena,
and the local health board wants to
employ a veterinary surgeon capable OF
making the tests and keeping such rec
ords as shall give the health history OF
every individual cow from year to year.
Inspector Mclean, recently employed
on the recommendation Of DR.. Powers,
health officer of Los Angeles, has been
through the diaries supplying Ocean
Park with milk, and, although some OF
them were in an untidy and unwhole-
some state, the dairymen showed dis
position to better existing conditions.
AS nothing ever had been done toward
lacking up the diaries the owners of
some of them did not even know that
there was an ordinance in existence.
The health officers are determined
that no visiting babies shall get sick
from preventable diseases at Ocean
Park this summer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
PREACHERS TARGET FOR EGGS
IN CRUSADE AGAINST LIQUOR

WALLACE, Idaho. June 22.-Pastor
Mailau of the Congregational church
and Pastor MacGaugey of the Metho-
dist church were showered with de-
cayed lemons, ancient eggs and other
missiles Sunday afternoon when they
tried to gain admission at the rear
entrance of John Watson's saloon.
The two ministers had been active
in enforcement of the Sunday rest law.
They were detected trying to enter the
saloon and a large crowd that assem-
bled hurled various fraerant missiles
at them. In the evening they started
out to renew the attempt, but were
met by Chief of Police Ed Adams. who
told them he would see that the law
was enforced
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
WORRY OVER STATE
OF CONCRETE WORK
EXPERIENCE OF LONG BEACH
MUCH DEBATED
PiIins of Santa Monica's Hundred
Thousand Dollar Municipal Pier
Appears to BE Partial
Failure

Special to The Herald.
SANTA MONICA, June 22.--The dis
indignation that Is going on In the
concrete piling of the Long Beach mu~
nicipal pier was much discussed today
in connection with the, at least. partial
failure attending the concrete work
being done In the new Santa Monica
100000 municipal pier. Several en-
gineers have expressed opinions of
much public interest to the correspon-
dent of The Herald, but they have been
guarded, for two reasons: They do not
want to do an injustice to the de-
signer and contractors Of the Santa
Monica pier and they insist that not
withstanding criticism concrete piling
can be made a success. All that is
being said about these two piers, they
fear. will have the effect of prejudicing
people against all concrete work that
is intended to withstand the effects of
salt water and the force of the sea-
George Sydney Buckley, consulting
engineer, with an office in the Union
Trust building, Los Angeles, said that
the trouble in Long Beach was due to
faulty construction and sighted work.
In the Santa Monica pier the piles are
too slender and too green. The base
is set in position first. The upper por-
ton is nodded in forms on the work;
that is, the upper section of each pile
the form which has been placed in
position on top of the under section.
But the shock of the sea disturbs the
composition so that 1t cannot set prop
erly and when the wooden form is re-
moved a virtually disintegrated piece
of pile is all that remains. Yet Mr..
Binckley is a firm believer in concrete
piling when 1t is rightly made and
properly placed.
Another Los Angeles concrete man
today affirms that the Santa Monica
pier is being built to perish, and,
speaking of what has befallen the Long
Beach pier today, says: "If anyone will
examine closely the piles there he will
find 1t is not the fault of the elements
affecting concrete that is the cause of
the difficulty. but 1t is the fault of the
way the concrete was put In. In put
ting concrete in water. as 1t was put
In at the pier at Long Beach. there is
a scum formed which does not harden
but forms kind of soapstone. and 1t
is such formations that have been
washed out of the pier by the action
of the elements and the force of the
waves"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
COUNCILMAN OF SIXTH WARD
PASSES AWAY FROM DRoPsY
special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH. June &C. A. Lew
ey. councilman from the Sixth ward
(Terminal island), died yesterday
morning at the Good Samaritan hos
pital in Los Angeles of dropsical trou-
bic, from which he had suffered long
time. He had been in the hospital two
weeks.
The flags above the city hall and in
Pacific park are at half-mast and the
former councilmans seat at the table
in the council chamber is draped. The
city offices will close at noon tomorrow
and the other members OF the council
will act as ~allbearers. Funeral serv-
ices will be held from the Bresee
Bros chapel in Los Angeles at 1880
tomorrow afternoon.
Mr.. Lewey was 45 years old and a
native of Norway. He was engaged
in the sailmaking business at West
Long Beach. Last fall he was elected
to the council. A widow and two chill
dren survive him. His place in the
council will be filled by election.
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strainer which was used to keep
everything but water from getting into
the intake pipe through which the
supply of the swimming tanks In the
Ocean Park bath house is pumped.
The heavy seas of week ago caused
the mishap. With the strainer went a
section of 10-inch pipe.
The weight of the whole thing Is
about 1900 pounds, and machinists have
completed pair of unique graphing
hooks which 1t Is hoped will suffice
to catch hold of the bands on the
strainer and support it'until 1t gets to
the surface. Heavier chains then VIII
be slipped under 1t and 1t will be hoist
ed to the flooring of the pier.
The sunken strainer has been located
by sounding. Catching 1t and lifting
1t will be a ticklish kind of work that
may occupy two weeks time. An old
strainer is now doing duty In place of
1t. 1t will be replaced over the mouth
Of the intake pipe when 1t is recap
tured.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
PAYMAsTER is ACQUITTED OF
CHARGE OF DRUNKENNESS

WASHINGTON June 22.--Pay In
of the Pacific fleet, has been acquitted
by court-martial of the charge of
drunkenness on duty preferred by
Rear Admiral Dayton, commanding the
fleet. Admiral Dayton and the Sec
rotary of the navy disapproved the
finding on the ground that it was not
according to the evidence.
The action Of the court. however, Is
final and he has been restored to duty.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
EXERCISES WILL BE
IN FORM OF PLAYLET
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO
GIVE RECEPTION
Class Is Exceptionally Large and
Ranks High In intelligence, the
Year Having Been Most
Successful One
Office sos Third Street.
Phones-Home s75; Sunset, Red 11so.

rectal TO The Eeraic
SAN BERNARDINO, June 22.-This
is commencement week with the high
school. Tomorrow evening the class
night exercises will be held in the shape
of playlet, to be followed by re-
ception to the class and faculty. The
commencement exercises will be held
Thursday evening at the opera house,
and the address this year will be given
by President George N. Gates of Po-
mona college.
The class this year is a large one
and the standard of intelligence is
high. The year just closing has been
a very successful one, in fact one of
the most successful in the schools his
tory.
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UNION STOPS HIM FROM
DISP0SING OF HIS CATCH
Recent Purchaser of Launch Tourist
and Passengers Have Great
Sport, but Fish Cannot
Be Marketed
Special to The Herald.

bptCIdI
LONG BEACH, June 22.-Because he
did not belong to the union" Capt. Al
Shook, recent purchaser Of the lounch
Tourist, could not dispose of his catch
OF fish yesterday afternoon to the fish
dealers at San Pedro and large num-
Der of bass was thrown overheard.
Shook was unable to land at the local
pier because of high swells. He and
his passengers caught fourteen yellow
tail and 200 bass. Fishing was said to
be exceptionally good a few miles out
Passengers on the launch Eagle had
the novel experience of seeing both a
gigantic sunfish and a whale, about
ninety feet long, yesterday, while cruis-
ing some ten miles out from Point VI
cente.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
ONE KILLED AND rs INJURED
IN PASSENGER TRAIN WRECK

BATON ROUGE, La. June 22.--One
killed and about fifteen injured, some
of them very seriously. was the result
of the wrecking OF a Baton Rouge g.
Hammond passenger train at the cross
ing of the Red River Valley road today
The dead:
DIR. g. w. Jones, Bonham Springs
La; a member of the state house OF
representatives.
Seriously injured: Lewis IA Morgan
state representative, ST. Mary's parish
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TRACTION COMPANY COMPELLED
TO GIVE SUBURBAN SERVICE

CLEVELAND. Ohio, June 22.--Judge
Phillips In common pleas court today
granted mandatory order compelling
the Municipal Traction Company 70
give good, service and the same rate
of fare to the town of East Cleveland.
a suburb, as is enjoyed by the city OF
Cleveland.
Judge Phillips held that the Munici-
pal company had a legal right to in
crease its fares on lines where 1t was
found cars were operated at a loss.
but If the recent fares were given
within the city limits on the line run
ming to East Cleveland the latter town
must have the same rate.
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TREY FORD MUST ANSWER
FOURTH BRIBERY CHARGE

SAN FRANCISCO. June 22.-Twice
acquitted of charges of bribery. TREY
L. Ford. general counsel for the United
Railroads, will soon be placed on trial
for the fourth time by the prosecution
In the bribery graft cases.
Ford today appeared before Superior
Judge Lawlor and pleaded not guilty
to indictments charging him with hav-
ing bribed former Supervisors +. r.
Nicholas and J. j. Furey.
Fcrds first trial resulted in a dis
agreement In each of the two follow
ing trials the jury returned verdict
of not guilty.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23
BECOMES VIOLENTLY INSANE
WHILE ON SANTA FEE TRAIN

TRINIDAD, Colo, June 22.-James
Steele, en- route from Jerome, Ariz., to
Boston, became violently insane on
Santa Fe train today and when the
train reached tuis place was removed
to the county Jail. His brain is re-
ported to have become affected by the
high altitu lie of Ration mountain, over
which the rain passed.
Nothing is known here of Steele's
connections