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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
COUNCIL DECIDES TO
BUY CHEAPEST HOSE
NO ONE VOTES AGAINST 3d.
CENT PURCHASE
Company Which Secures Contract for
$3.50 of Fire Material Guaran-
tees 1t Will Last Three
Years

Without the expected protest, in fact
without a ripple of excitement or n
dissenting vote, the city council yes
terday voted TO purchase the 5S-eent
hose from the Bowers Rubber conf
pany of San Francisco.
This was the lowest bid which had
been submitted and also the lowest
grade of hose offered. but it is witha
the provisions of the specifications and
is accompanied by a guarantee to last
three years. Every section of the hose
that does not last three years can be
returned and the Bowers company VIII
replace it.
Every section of the hose will be sub
mitted to a test of $50 pounds pressure.
but this will take away two years OF
it's life, according to the statement Of
w. A. Daggett, representative of the
Bowers company. In spite of this the
hose is guaranteed to last the full three
years.
The contract price will be s676O, and
the Bowers company will furnish a
bond for $500 for the faithful perform
ance.
There were rumors from members OF
the fire commission yesterday that In
case the council agreed to purchase the
Bowers hose an injunction would be
asked. The fire commission wants the
Paragon. or some other higher grade
hose than the 5S-cent variety, claiming
the cheap hose will not do the work.
Chief Lips says while the 5S-cent hose
is up to specifications, the specifications
are not what they should be. He Is
largely responsible, if this is the case
as he is the chief collaboration in draw
ing upethese specifications.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
.BACKUS OFFERS NEW
IDEAS FOR BUILDINGS
REPORTS WHAT HE SAW IN
EASTERN CITIES
superintendent Does Not Approve OF
Steel Curtains for Theaters, Say
ing He Believes Them Too
Cumbersome

Building Superintendent ]. ]. Backus
yesterday presented a written report
to the city council, embodying the fea-
lures Of interest he had found in the
building departments of eastern cities
on his recent trip. He visited all cities
of importance in the east and secured
the best information he could.
In the matter of theater fire curtains
he said he found many eastern cities,
especially Chicago. had adopted a steel
curtain, but these were very heavy,
some Weighing five tons and making
it necessary for a large motor or other
mechanical power to operate them. Mr..
Backus believes the less machinery
used for operating curtains in theaters
the better, and so does not recommend
this kind. He believes someone soon
will devise an improvement on the as
bestos curtain, in use in Los Angeles,
that will combine the virtue of steel
and asbestos.
He says he soon will Introduce an or
dinance requiring more extensive use
of wire glass for protection against fire,
as he had found this to be a very val
liable adjunct in the east.
AS to the practice in Los Angeles of
permitting sidewalks and streets to he
used for storing material when build
ings are being erected, and for which
Los Angeles has been severely criticised
by easterners. he says the same con-
ditions prevail in almost every eastern
city.
Other minor features were included
In the report, and it is probable the
building ordinance again willy be
amended, especially as it has been
about two weeks since a change has
been made; but in the main, Mr..
Backus says, Los Angeles is equal to
any city, and superior to some, in its
building restrictions.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
|N[WS!OF TH[C0URTS| |2IaI a
PRISONER EXHIBITS
HIS FEET IN COURT
ATTEMPTS TO PROVE TO JURY
HIS INNOCENCE
Henry Courtright Asserts His Arrest
for Burglary at Redondo Beach
Is Case of Mistaken
Identity

To prove his feet bore no resemblance
to the pedal extremities of the man who
held up and robbed Charles II. Burnett
at Redondo, the night of August -,
Henry Courtright pulled off his shoes
and socks before a jury in the superior
court yesterday and exhibited sundry
cuts and corns which Burnett did not
mention having seen the night of the
holdup.
Burnett told the jury that Courtright
entered his home through a bathroom
window and held him up with his
(Burnett's) revolver, relieving him of a
waite and $50 in money. The man, he
said, was in his bare feet.
Courtright was arrested a few hours
after the holdup while he was asleep
beneath a Redondo sidewalk, place.
he said, where he made his bed for
two weeks. He was soclxless. but wore
shoes. The former he said, had been
discarded on account of their perforat-
ed condition. Only 35 cents and a few
feet of fishing line were found in his
pockets
Courtright claims it is a case of mis-
taken identity and the jury probably
will express their belief in his inno-
cence or guilt sometime today.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
MAYOR HARPER APPOINTS
DIR. LAMB POUND MASTER
city Council Confirms Nomination and
New Official Names Stray Stock
Enclosure the Hotel
Quadruped

Mayor Harper yesterda;' sent the
name of DR.. w. A. Lamb to the city
council as his choice for porndmaster.
The appointment was confirmed and
DR.. Lambs bond of $1,000 accepted.
DR.. Lamb said the name of pound
hereafter would be relegated along with
the old system of dog catcher, but the
place where stray stock ,3as kept would
be known as Hotel Quadruped, and the
place for dogs as the Canine Retreat:
DIR. Lamb is president of the HUI
name Animal league, the organization
which has taken charge of the city
pound and the dog catching business
and which will conduct the latter
branch under what is known as the
Pasadena system-punishment of dog
owners and not dogs.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
BILLS AT HERALD'S FREE SHOWS
INCLUDE ALL HIGH CLASS FEATURES
Teachers and Parents Give Sanction to Excellent
Educational Entertainment Conducted by the
Bracket Management-New Program
Is Varied and Interesting

IN HE interesting and attractive features of the Bracket shows
for which The offering free passes, being
added daily The fact that the are good until
o'clock fortunate for school children take advantage OF
The Herads offer after school,
The crowds attendance increasing daily as The Heads
readers realize that all do out
der to enjoy this delightful entertainment
The program for this week OF the most attractive ever
offered by local moving house. and the numbers
red in character while the high standard of excellence main
tanned The especially recommended teachers
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
HER REASON DETHR0NED
BY CESSATION OF WORK
Denver Woman Goes Insane on jour-
ney to Los Angeles and Is
Removed from Train
by Force

Having worked hard for eight years,
during which time her nerves often had
been strung to the highest pitch, the
sudden relaxation of dropping into idle
ness that she, with her little daughter
Edith, aged IL years, might enjoy life
together, proved too much for Mrs.
Hannah Nelson who became insane on
her way from Denver to Los Angeles
Arriving at the Salt Lake depot yes
terday morning Mrs. Nelson refused to
leave her coach and was forcibly taken
bv Depot officer johnson to the CEN
trail police station, at which place, pend
ing an examination as to her sanity,
she is being detained in the matron's
ward.
Edith, Mrs. Nelson's daughter, says
her mother had been hysterical ever
since leaving Denver. The child is al
most prostrate from the ordeal through
which she has passed.
Mrs. Nelson's husband died eight
years ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
PASSES ORDINANCE WHICH
DEFINES AUCTION HOURS
City Council Sets Definite Time When
Public Sales May Take Place
to Aid Fakers' Sup
preston

The council yesterday passed an or
dinance defining the hours when auc-
tion sales may be held. The are be-
tween o'clock in the morning and 6
o'clock in the evening.
The ordinance was passed at the re-
quest of the police commission because
in few days Make auctions, the Off
GERS say, will begin to be held. and the
practice of selling brass watches and
nickel plated tinware for fancy prices
will be renewed. 1t is to give the police
department an opportunity to cope
with these takers" that the ordinance
was passed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
REFUSES TO ESTABLISH
SALVAGE CORPS IN CITY
Pacific Underwriters Association
Practically Declares 1t Has Aban-
doned institution for Protec-
ton During Fires

Nothing doing is the gist of a
response from the Pacific Underwrit-
ers' association to the city council in
reply to that body's polite request for
a salvage corps.
The association practically declares
it has abandoned establishing such in
stitutions and if Los Angeles wants
one 1t can pay for it out of the tax
money.
The communi ion acknowledged
such institutions are maintained in San
Francisco and larger eastern cities, but
said they were established many years
ago and are still maintained because
it has become habit.
The underwriters say - is unfair to
ask them to pay for protecting the
wares of all merchants. regardless
whether they carry insurance. 1t is
an added burden to insurance agencies
and one they do not ca to assume.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
NOTED TRAFFIC MANAGER
ARRIVES IN LOS ANGELES
John Sebastian Makes Brief Stay, and
viii Leave Tomorrow for Santa
Barbara and Other Points
in the North

John Sebastian, passenger traffic
manager of the Rock Island, Frisco
and Chicago = Eastern Illinois Rail-
way systems, and one of the best
known railroad men in the country,
arrived in Los Angeles yesterday
morning. Mr.. Sebastian is accom-
panied by his wife, his daughter-in-
law, Mrs. D. j. Sebastian, and his sec
retary, M. j. Curry The party is
travelling in Mr.. Sebastians private
car.
The visitors will leave today for
Santa Barbara, Del Monte, San Fran
cisco and the Puget sound cities. In
his trip to the Pacific coast Mr.. Sebas-
tian is combining business and pleas
ure
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
WINERIES PROHIBITED IN
THE RESIDENCE SECTIONS

BY an amendment to the residence
district ordinance. passed by the coun-
ell Yesterday, 1t is now unlawful toes
tabiish wineries in those portion; Of
Los Angeles that officially have been
set apart as residence districts.
This amendment especially was asked
by residents of a portion of the First
ward, where it was proposed to estab-
lish a winery. BY this ordinance Win
cries are placed in the same class with
factories and other manufacturing in
dustries which are prohibited in the
residence districts.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
REAL ESTATE DEALER
DEMANDS AN ACCOUNTING

Charging that his stock in the Grider-
Woolner company, real estate, was sold
under an assessment without his
knowledge or consent and that other
were not assessed at the
same time, c. c. Grider filed suit
against Henry S. Woolner and other
directors, asking for an accounting of
the companys affairs and an injunction
to prevent the paying out of any money
now on hand until the accounting is
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
CITY TRANSFERS MONEY TO
STREET DEPARTMENT FUNDS

The council yesterday transferred
S25O0 from the general fund to the street
department fund. This was done that
the street department might take back
a. number of men it had been forced
to discharge on account of shortage in
money.
The request of the park department
for $4,000 for constructing new lava
tories in the parks was referred TO
the finance committee. The sum is
large. but Superintendent of Parks
Morley says every cent of it is neces-
SarV
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
Musician Charges Fraud

James Willis Rice, a musician, HE'D
suit in the superior court against Aug
ust Heck yesterday, demanding the re-
covery of $500, part payment on
$500 note, given for a violin, which,
he claims, was represented as Joseph
Guerinerius." He is satisfied, he says,
that the instrument is not worth more
than $3.50. He wants his money re-
turned and the note Cancelled.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

monte school district, to pay off por-
tion of a 100000 bond issue made thirty
years ago.
The taxpayers claim this tax should
have been distributed over that period
of time, and the county body agreed
with them.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
NEW INcoRPoRATIoNs

The following articles of incorpora-
tion were filed in the county clerk S
office yesterday:
Whittier Development company,
capital $250,000; directors, A. II. Dun
lap, George L. Hazard, j. Allen Os-
nun, C. B. Johnson and John Dunlap.
Chucawalla Development company;
directors, M. M. Clark, Eugene Ger
main, w. o. Morton, w. z. M. Cole,
f. C. Proctor. Los An les: r. M.
league, San Dimas; Elmer w. Hart,
Pomona.
Leiser- Rea Mining company; capital,
5000, 10000; directors, Fred Leiser, Ed
ward B. Rea, William Weber, d. d.
Chapman and S. j. Parsons.
The Angelus grill has excellent SER
vice and better food. Fourth and Spring
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
TRY TO REcTIFY MISTAKE
OF IMPROPER ASSESSMENTS

A case in which improper assessments
were levied was referred yesterday to
Hartley Shaw, chief deputy district
attorney, by the board of supervisors,
which is trying to rectify the mistake.
The taxes amount to $4,000 and We're
assessed against taxpayers of Mira
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
CHARGE Aaalnst Dean Fails

The charge of embezzlement against
A. NJ. Dean, who was ACCUSED of mis-
appropriating $4,000 belonging to the
Machinery Equipment company, was
dismissed by Justice Summerfield yes
terday. Dean, who cared for the COM
pany's business in Los Angeles, claimed
to be a partner in the concern, having
a verbal contract to that effect.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
PRESIDENT STEWART AND MISS
HOLMES TO TALK PROSPERITY

President George H. Stewart of the
chamber of commerce and Miss
Frances Holmes, who originated the
idea of having a prosperity week" in
Southern California, will address the
students at the Polytechnic high school
today. President Stewart will tell the
students what the significance of
s.Prosperity Week is, while Miss
Holmes will eplain to them how she
came to get the grand idea.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
BEGIN CANVASS OF VOTES
CAST AT LATE ELECTION
Twenty Clerks Kept Busy at Work,
but Task Will Not Be Fin-
shed Inside of Ten
Days

The board of supervisors yesterday
began canvassing the votes cast at
the recent election, and, so far as the
count has proceeded, few Irregularities
were discovered.
Twenty clerks are engaged in the
work, which will not oe fini-led inside
of ten days
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
Demands Jury Trial

Benjamin Wyatt, charged with
robbing W. L. Sibley, a veteran, in
Santa Monica canyon, withdrew his
plea of guilty in the superior court
yesterday and asked for jur. trial.
The trial was set for November 13. r.
E. Neary, Wyatt's companion at the
time of the robbery, is now serving a
penitentiary sentence for the crime.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
To Probate viii

Petition for the probate of the will
of c. b. Van Every, who died October
n, leaving an estate valued at 100000,
was filed in the superior court yester-
day by the widow Mrs Hannah Van
Every, who is named as executrix. The
estate is left to the widow and two
grandchildren.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
California Club Case Up

James Cuzner's suit against the Cali
fornia club, to enjoin the latter from
selling liquor without a license, was
submitted to the supreme court yes
terday on an order from the court.
Ninety days are allowed within which
a decision may be rendered.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
EmbezzIement Case Continued

Preliminary examination of w. P.
Reynolds and Albert e. Stein, charged
with embezzling $56s6 from the A.
George Schultz company of Milwaukee,
was continued by Justice Stephens yes
terday until November 27.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
guilty of MansIauuhter

Jacob Valier who killed Joseph Re-
santi near Calabasas July 15, pleaded
guilty of manslaughter in the superior
court yesterday and will be sentenced
Wednesday by Judge Jamison.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
Free Admission

TTNIIIs Admission to
either of the 246 South Broadway
4S3 South Of IL o'clock
noon and o'clock than the day fol-
lowing the date at the
The BRACKET are guaranteed to Herald
ing by Mr. Brackett 10 GLASS, EDUCA-
IloNAL In character This Herald policy
wherein nothing morbid
sened to its readers ICharge to Angeles HeraldI
Tuesday, November 10, 1903.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
Pleads Guilty

Frank r. Melewski pleaded guilty
before Judge Wilbur yesterday to a
charge of passing a forged check on
Fred Carter at Long Beach October %.
He will be sentenced Friday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

If you want 70 go east. C.. Haydock Agent
III noIs Central r. R.. lis W. sixtn street.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-01

roles in one play. His complete dis
guises were rapid and radical changes;
yet there was always a minute or so of
talk by other characters to give him
time for each shift of aspect A single
Fatima Miris purports to enact seven
men and women in a brief melodrama
of forty-five entrances and exits. She
disappears at one door and almost in
stantiy-that is, in one second to newer
more than two by a watch-reappears
at another in a different character. In
one instance-which I timed at a sec
ond and half-she transforms herself
from lady in evening dress TO a mus
tached cavalier in doublet and hose.
How does she do it? My belief is that
she doesn't do it at ALL l think there
are two of her. twinkle in resem-
blance. as in most Of the stage ma
SlclanS exploits OF vanishing and re-
turning girls Anyway. Fatima Miris
probably is of quite as much value
with the audience as Amelia Bingham.
They two are the weeks Morris telling
novelties on that stage.
x x
Mighty Mike Donlin, whacker and
twirler of baseballs, is Hammerstein's
trump card of the week in the vaude-
vile gamble. Along with Mike is his
wife. Mabel Hite, an actress of eccen-
tricity- Mike is a big, brawny, hand
some young man: and in the craze OF
baseball he is a popular hero. Mabel
is better looking than her rural gawhs
and city freaks in extravaganza have
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-01

With only four manageTnentS-the Nor
ris. the Williams, the Hammerstein and
the Keith d Proctor--among whom the
alliances for attack and defense equal
in vigor those that formerly character
lied the dramatic syndicates, II have
spent the afternoons and evenings of
two days seeing performances at four
theatres belonging to the four antago-
nistc concerns. so as 20 describe the
best now things in the houses Of va
riety.
The card played by Williams in this
weeks vaudeville is the Twain-Daly
piece. but IL doesn't win. Quite tri-
umphant In the same show. though, is
the more artful Books" a sketch OF
collegians with the atmosphere of
American university life cleverly Gre
ated by Author Philip Troup and Actor
Harry Tighe with five companions. A
students father is abused by mistake
for dunning boog agent, and his sis
Ter is codd!ed as d sirenic actress.
Ihat is the intrinSically best thing in
the program, and / felt like shaking
the audiences applauding hands. But
my own hands clenched into fists dur
ing an ensuing quarter of an hour of
as witless dialogue as two Doors ever
delivered across foOtlights. yet it joyed
the majority. Further along. I laughed
iect comedians who punned, joked and
sang as salty admiral and a sailor
on United States warship. painted
big and illusionary enough for melo-
drama. Vaudeville taste is various
x
Amelia Bingham in three dramas is
a new thing at one of the Morris vau-
deville theatres. That is to say, she
gives ten-minute passage each from
Madame Sans Gene with the laun-
dress-duchess' defiance of NapoIeon's
sisters, "A School for Husbands" with
the abject wife of a domineering hus-
band turning rebellious, and La Tos-
ca with the murder of the lascivious
wretch by the imperilled woman. Miss
Bingham is an easy speaker in wo-
mems meetings, and she explains these
gracefully. acts in them force
fully, and is helped by an able COM
pany of five in a quite unique vaude-
vile stunt
The stranger introduced here is Fa-
TINA Miris. She is an ugly but clever
Italian woman-Or two women: for I
can't help believing that the seeming
of her performance is
solved by the guess that there are
counterpart Fatimas. An actor from
Holland came to America two years
ago and astonished US by acting six
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-01
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.


New York. oct. 3O.-A new play by
Mark Twain, Becoming an Editor"
with Arnold Daily in it, pulled me into
a vaudeville theatre. The scene is the
Office Of the Chicago Farmer. a chap
as cheeky as Daily can make him has
taken the editors chair transiently.
The first edition under his hand has
been issued. An old subscriber enters.
His hair is hemp and his whiskers
hay. He says the last Farmer was the
col darendst agrycuitOOral paper he
ever seen er hearn tell on. DAILY shakes
hands with him effusively. But, loOky
we're, b'sosh. the practical farmer
wants to know what the editorial farm
er meant by saying that carrots should
not be picked from the trees till ripe.
that the long stems Of turnips should
be- nurtured unbroken, and that pump
kns might be trained over arbors for
shaded At this point in the playlet /
recalled its idea as old in a sketch by
Twain. in which the humor was ampli-
fled deliciously. and the editor returned
barely in time to eject his substitute
and try 70 save tie paper from ruin.
The program said that Mark Twain
had a collaboration named Gabriel Tim
moTy. So? Wei, now, il is a guess of
mine that Arnold Daily obtained from
Twain the right To use that piece of
humOr. and that he made the acting
version. Therein, although the indig-
nant old subscriber stopped the paper.
The amused people of Chicago bought
u by the thousands Now, DAILY has
Jared badly with his artistic endeavOrs
lately; and, although the newspaper
critics have been considerate. he does
not think so: and if l may have anoth-
CT guess, il is that he prepared and
presented Becoming an Editor" with
view TO hitting back at Journalism.
surely Mark Twain. petted and pros
pered By the press, never wrote nor
NEW OF the speech which DAILY, when
turned out of the Farmer Office. deliv-
ers with the NehcmenCe of a political
campaign stumper The purport of it
Is that as the Farmer has multiplied
us circulation through foohshness. lust
So an ignorant public rejects common
--'Se IN newspapers and prefers idiocy.
Inc genius Of DAILY has turned peevish.
*
prediction lack OF new drama. of
'oHSeQuence gives me space TO tell YOU
something further about vaudeville. to
lhe toDmost grade of which in New
YORK fourteen theatres are devoted,
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shrew" in comedy. paid the Bard OF
Avon as much as Harry B. Smith gets
for the wording of Little Memo" or
Victor Herbert for its music How
ever, food and lodging clothes and
driug are Gearer nnanifola in New York
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-01

now than they were IN London then. I
wouldn't wonder If the salary list OF
this modern New York play of news
paper cartoon foolery summed up more
Continued on Page 10.
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THIS WEEK AT.
THE THEATRES

:: salt Lakc-First half of week, ::
:: matinee Wednesday. The Man of ::
:. the Hour"
:: Orpheum-A,I week, beginning :
:. tonight, matinee daily, vaudeville =
:. New Lyric-All week, matinee =
:. daily, the cameraphone.