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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31

ly without organized relief, for the
reason that the soldiers, the police, the
doctors and nurses by the hundreds
were either buried or drowned.
The first work of rescue was per-
formed by volunteers from ships III
the harbor and groups of heroic sur
vivors who at great labor and per-
sonal danger eXtricated many persons
pinioned beneath the wreckage.
Need Doctors and Nurses
Messina's crying need today is for
doctors, nurses, food and firemen TO
combat the flames that still ravage
the city.
Doctors, nurses and firemen are be-
ing hurried into the wrecked city, but
the lack of food and water makes the
rescue work difficult
The Russian and British warships at
Messina have sent crews ashore and
the vessels have been transformed into
hospitals.
All the hospitals in Catania are
crowded and even the schools have
been turned into infirmaries
The less seriously injured of the sur
yivors at Messina are being dispatched
by the dozens to Palermo.
Minister of public Works Bertolini
has arrived at Messina and organized
several corps of volunteers for rescue
work.
It is asserted that half the fatalities
occurred because it was quite fmpos-
sible for the survivors to render
prompt assistance. Not the least of
the suffering was caused by the down.
pour of cold rain.
Some of the refugees from Messina
passed through San Giovanni, Palmi
Scilla, Cannitello, Favizzani and Bag
nara and found most of the towns de-
stroyed. A boat moored at one of the
docks seemed suddenly to be thrown
high in the air.
It landed on top of the dock and was
left hanging there by the receding wa
ter This was the first intimation to
the crew that anything had happened.
The captain said a huge cloud OF
dust obscured the city. The captain
and his men landed and tried to make
their way into the city, but the fallen
buildings and the twisted streets made
progress impossible.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
RULERS OF ITALY AID
IN WORK OF RESCUING
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

CATANIA. Dec. 9O.-King Victor
Emmanuel and Queen Helena, who ar
rived ct Messina today, Immediately
Joined a rescue party and labored as
unremittingly as the others.
The king personally extricated sew
eral injured persons pinned under the
ruins.
The queen devoted her attention
principally to little-children. She res
cued with her own hands Swear old
boy. who was bleeding from many
cuts and bruises.
She herself carried him to the dock
where she handed him to members OF
the hospital corps.
At the dock were many small boats
sent to take the wounded out to ships
in the harbor. Every available steamer
in port has been fitted as a temporary
hospital.
People wept from emotion when they
saw the king and queen of Italy come
to them.
Women threw kisses to her majesty.
Both were practically carried up the
pier in the arms of their subjects.
The presence of the king has acted
as a general inspiration. Even the
wounded found fresh strength when
they learned officially that his majesty
had come among them.
An aged man who had been aban-
doned under a beam that apparently
had crushed out his life revived for
moment at the shouts of greeting to
the royal pair. He stretched out his
hands and raised his head long enough
to call out: 'Now 1 can die happy"
Long live the king!" he shouted,
and then fell back. and expired.
An overpowering stencil is beginning
to arise from the ruins of Messina.
Ten thousand soldiers will be required
to bury the dead there.
1t was learned today that General
Coli lost his life at Messira.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
CABLEGRAM DECLARES
AT LEAST $4,000 ARE
DEAD; PROBABLY MORE

ROME. Dec. 3O.-The arthquake which
has devastated the Italian depart
ments of Calabria and Sicily mas
wrought the greatest tragedy which
ever has befallen the Christian world.
Its measure cannot be calculated.
1t is known in general terms that out
of a population of 1,75O,OOO in the de-
vastated area at least 125,000 persisted.
Latest reports received here state
that 1000 soldiers in the various bar
racks at Messina were buried under the
ruins.
This makes no account of dozen
towns near the center of the disturb
ance whence no word comes and where
there is only too good reason to fear
that there are no survivors to describe
their fate.
The destruction of property cannot
be as great as at San Francisco, for
Messina and Reggie, the two principle
cities destroyed, were not rich nor
magnificent, from the metropolitan
point of view.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
NATIONS URGED
TO HELP ITALY
UNDERSTANDABLE SUFFERING IS
ON EVERY HAND
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS HALF
GLAD AND STARVING
Fearful Gales and Cold Wave Intensity
Appalling Misery Of Homeless
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than 10000 persons. Many of these are
dying of hunger.
The people still in the city have
broken open the restaurants and gro
Gerry stores and are feeding themselves
as they may.
The duke of Aosta left here this
morning on a torpedo boat for Messina
and Reggie.
Thousands of Sicilians and Calabrians
are in Naples today from the north,
seeking means of communication to the
south by which to get news of friends
and relatives.
The Russian cruiser Admiral Maka-
rolf came in here today from Messina
with 400 wounded on board, and the
steamer Theraphie likewise has
brought hundreds of refugees.
Hundreds Seek Loved Ones
Hundreds of Sicilians who have come
over to the continent for Christmas IN
vaded the piers to learn If their loved
ones were among the people on BOARD
Others are seeking vainly for a way 10
get down to Messina.
While the destruction of Messina ana
Reggie was due primarily to the earth
quake the tidal wave caused numerous
damage, In the narrow strait the
water formed into a huge wave thirty
feet high.
1t then drew back from the coast do
If gaining strength for an onslaught
that would obliterate the land.
So violent was the motion OF the at
mosphere coincident with the tidal
wave that several workmen engaged IN
digging a pit on the Calabrian side OF
the strait were carried bodily up into
the air.
Suddenly stopping in its backward
sweep. the water of the strait hurled
itself upon the two coasts.
Inexorably they advanced, and piers
houses and gardens were swallowed up
in the flood.
Above some places on the coast Of
Sicily the water swept over the earth
for a distance of ten miles, The ground
for a great distance trembled under the
shock of the impact.
A naval officer who witnessed TINS
awe-inspiring spectacle described it IN
these words:
ut seemed as if two mountains one
of water. the other of land, fell furi-
ously, the one toward the other, and
as if the land vomited human habita-
lions into the sea"
Nine thousand tents, each capable OF
housing six persons, and 1000 pieces OF
blankets, have been shipped from here
to Sicily and Calabria.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31

sina branch of the Bank of Italy,
amounting to $2,000,000, has been saved
and is aboard an italian Warship.
The rescuers at Messina are rapidly
becoming exhausted. The fires have
not yet been put out and there is no
water with which to combat the flames.
Many of the people still refuse to
leave the ruins of their homes.
They cling to the sites of their houses,
CRYING out that their only safety is in
fidelity to the wreckage. Force is
often necessary to get them to the
ships in the harbor.
Large numbers in the suburbs OF
Messina will not come back into the
city for fear of a recurrence of the
shocks.
A dispatch received here from Deputy
Felice at Messina says:
Appeals for Rescuers
"Organize a squad of volunteers for
rescue work. Send us food, for we are
dying of hunger. A number of the sur
vivors are leaving today for Catania.
Receive them with love and frater-
nifty. 1t is the duty of every family
in Catania to shelter a family from
Messina.
only two members of the municipal
council of Messina survived the dtsas-
ter.
The bluejackets from the Russian
warships at Messina have performed
Valorous services.
They risked their lives recklessly in
the work of extricating the wounded.
HOSPITALS have been improvised in the
railroad station, which is partially
standing. in another building and on
board the steamer Reina Margherlta'
but these are already full.
roll call Of the Eighty-ninth infan-
try reveals the fact that there are only
ten survivors.
A man named Roberto, the sole sur
vivor of his family, became crazed
from grief in Catalina today and COM
mitted suicide.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
NINETY AMERICANS IN
COLLAPSED HOTEL AT
MESSINA, SAYS CABLE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Ninety
Americans were in the Messina hotel
that was destroyed, and Italians and
Americans are cooperating in the
quest for information regarding the
missing. A cablegram reached the
state department today from Anlpassa-
dor Griscom at Rome.
The ambassador cabled that he has
received no word from the American
consuls at Messina and Palermo. Ht
has asked the foreign office for infor-
nation, and that office, he adds, VIII
use every effort through army and
navy officers to obtain definite news.
The British consul at Messina is re-
ported injured and his wife and emil
dren dead. The ambassador says IL Is
reported ninety Americans We're in the
Trinacria. hotel at Messina, whlch is
said to be totally destroyed.
1t is known, however, that some Oh
the guests escaped.
The foreign office reported that sew
eral foreign nations are hurrying war;
ships to the scene to offer assistance,
The ambassador has dispatched con-
sular officers in quest of information.
Every effort is being made by the
state department to obtain news OF
American citizens who were in the
zone.
Ordered to Send consuIs
Ambassador Griscom at Rome was
directed to cable promptly any infor-
nation obtainable and to send some OF
the American consuls in Italy to the
scene of distress to render whatever
aid possible.
Efforts also are being made to keep
in communication with Deputy Consul
Lupton at Messina TO the end that
prompt advices may reach here regard
ing any Americans in trouble.
The state department announced
that it will give promptly to the press
any information received from it's Of
flcials in Italy. The departments in
formation is that the winter tourist
season has not yet fully begun in
Sicily.
The impression among officials is
that those Americans who were in the
earthquake zone in that island were
mainly at Taormina.
Many inquiries have come to the de-
partment regarding friends believed to
be in the earthquake region. In addi-
ton to those already announced those
inquired about include the following
Mrs. Martha c. Kittredge, lher two
daughters, Ethel and Clarissa. and
Miss Margaret Mendell, all of Brook
lyn, Mass, and all of whom~ are at
Taormina Miss Blanche Kane of
Philadelphia, whose probable where
abouts in the disturbed district are not
stated, and David Sessums, Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Louisiana, be-
lieved to be at Messina.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
A PEDESTRIANS
HELDUP;; ROBBED
FOOTPADS SECURE A SMALL
SUM FROM THREE
Aged Man Is Found in Arroyo Seco
with Leg Broken-ls Unable to
Give Any Details of
Accident

Despite the extraordinary precautions
taken by the police to put an end to
the wholesale depredations by criminals
great and small in Los Angeles, two
holdups, two burglaries and one sup
posed holdup were reported last night
to the police.
At Avenue Thirty-eight and Pasa-
dena avenue last night shortly after IL
o'clock jeff BiXley and Louis Bixley
who live at 20S Avenue Thirty-eight,
and Benjamin Collision, who lives at
210 Avenue Thirty-nine, were held up
by two men and robbed of an aggre-
gate sum of $11.
The three young men were confronted
without warning by the two bandits,
who were masked and armed with blue
automatic pistols and ordered in true
Dick Turpin style to stand and deliver
They put up their hands promptly
and from Jeff Bixley was taken 81
from his brother Louis the sum of six
aid from young Collision 81. After the
I1bbery the boys We're ordered to go
fbwn the street and make no alarm.
Shey obeyed, and the robbers diSap-
fbeared in the darkness.
At Avenue 81 and Dayton street a
few minutes later Edward Street, who
lives at 435 Cedar street, was ordered
to stop and hold up his hands by two
maskcA men. Instead of complying
with the order he ran, and as he
dashed away in the darkness one of
the robbers fired at him, the bullet
whistiing by his ear so close he felt
the concussion. Both crimes were re-
PORTED to the police shortly after they
occurred, but while the motorcycle
policemen and detectives were on the
scene In few minutes, no trace of the
holdup men was found.
The residence of A. M. Arnaz at 1888
West Twenty-first street in the Uni
versity police district was entered by
burglars during the absence of the
family last night and diamonds and
jewelry to the amount of $500 stolen.
Included in the missing property was
three diamond rings one diamond pin,
two gold watches and lot of less val
liable jewelry
The house of G. B. johnson at 3O3
East Twenty-first street, also in the
University police district, was entered
by a burglar who forced an entrance
through a rear door and secured money
totaling $50. No trace of the men who
committed these robberies was found
by the University police.
While searching for the holdup men
on the east side Motorcycle Policemen
Coe and Humphrey found Charles
Clark an aged laborer employed in
grading camp at Avenue 3S and Ar
royo Seco, lying in the bottom of the
ravine with his right leg fractured near
the thigh.
The old man is supposed to have
been held up by highwaymen and be-
cause he resisted or because he had
no money was either knocked or thrown
from the narrow foot bridge which
crosses the arroyo at that point, land
ing in the canon twenty feet below.
When found the old man was de-
iirious with pain and could give no in
telligent description of the men who
attacked him or tell anything about
the particulars of his mishap. He was
taken to the county hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
RESCUERS IN MESSINA
SUCCOR INJURED; URGE
FOOD FOR STARVING

CATANIA, Dec. SO.--The latest news
from Messlna is that some progress is
being made in the work of succoring
the wounded survivors, but no attempt
is being made to remove the wreckage.
The troops and sailors have been
obliged to shoot down robbers who per-
sisted in looting.
The entire local treasury of the Mes
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
Wants eOundary line Data

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-Represen-
tative Cook Of Colorado has been re-
quested by President Roosevelt to
submit to him by next Tuesday morn
ing in time for the cabinet meeting on
that day brief of his contentious and
arguments concerning the veto of the
bill fixing the boundary line of Colo
RADIO, Now Mexico and Oklahoma as
the thirty-seyenth parallel of latitude.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31

Half price today for a lot of
high grade skirts to close a
year of extraordinary skirt
values. Models of fine Pan
anna and suiting; f1ared, gored
and plated; trimmed with
wide bias folds; pin checks,
stripes and plaids.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
TEN THOUSAND DIE IN
DESTRUCTION OF TOWN
NOT FAR FROM REGGIE

CATANZARO, Calabria, Dec. S0.-A
report received here early this morn
ing says the town of Bagnar on the
coast to the north of Reggie has been
completely wiped out, fire finishing the
work of destruction.
The report says that "all the inhab-
itapts are dead
fhe town contained about 10000
people.
In few days lime will be scattered
over the heap of ruins which alone
mark the site of once populous town.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31

Charming new dress skirts of
fine French wolfe and taffeta
silk, handsomely trimmed
with silk and satin buttons,
silk folds and strappings; all l
sizes; skirts that retail regu- I
larly for $3.50. On sale today
at $3.50.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31

Made of fine, wiry wolfe,
serge and Panama; new
hared and plated styles,
trimmed with buttons and
folds of same material and
silk; black and colors;
strictly high grade skirts;
regular $3.50 values today
$3.98.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
MANY Leave Tor ItalY

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-A score or
more of prominent Italians left today
on the Lusitania for Europe, expect
ing to reach the earthquake territory
and search for relatives.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
Relief from Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. SO.-A pub
lie subscription has been opened here
| for the sufferers in the italian earth
quake. All the newspapers publish most
sympathetic articles.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-31
Bishop May Be Dead

NEW ORLEANS, Dec 3O.-Right
Rev. David Sessums, Protestant Epis-
copal bishop of Louisiana, is believed
by members of his diocese to have been
at Messina at the time of the earth
quake. Nothing has been heard from
him.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-16


 If there is any duty which more than another we owe 1t to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural re-. sources of the country. There are of course two kinds of natural resources. One is the kind which can only be used as part of a process of exhaus. tion; this is true of mines, natural oil and gas wells, and the like. The other, and of course ultimately by far the most important, includes the TO. sources which can be improved in the process of wise use; the soil, the rivers, and the forests come under this head. Any really civilized na. ion will SO use all of these three great national assets that the nation will have their benefit in the future. Just as farmer, after all his life making his living from his farm, will, if he is an expert farmer, leave it as an asset of increased alue to his son, so we should leave our national domain to our children, increased in value and not worn out. There are small sec. tions of our own country, in the East and in the West, in the Adirondacks, the White Mountains, and the Appala.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-16
Inland Waterways.

Action should be begun forthwith, during the present session of the Con. gress, for the improvement of our in. land waterways action which will result in giving us not only navigable but nayigated rivers. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon these waterways, yet the traffic on nearly all of them Is steadily declin. ing. This condition Is the direct re. suit of the absence of any comprehen. sive and far'seeing plan of waterway improvement. Obviously we can not continue thus to expend the revenues Of the Government without return. It is poor business to spend money for inland navigation unless we get it.
 Until the work of river improve ment Is undertaken in . modern way It can not have results that win meet
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-10
Three of Drivers Who Will Com
pete Were in Pekin-Paris
Contest.

NEW YORK. Feb. 10.-The last de-
tails of the start of the New York
to Paris automobile race next Wednes-
day morning were arranged yesterday.
Six teams are to be sent away in this
most extraordinary of all the many
motor contests that have been planned
since the horseless vehicle first came
into use. -Four nations will be repre-
scented among the contestants. and this
fact, in addition to the territory to be
traversed, will give a Worldwide In
terest to the race.
Three French crews, n German, one
Italian, and one American, will make
the start next Wednesday when word
to go is given by Mayor George B. Nc
Clellan, of New York city. The place
of the start is at Forty-second street
and Broadway, in the heart of the city,
and the first stage of the long journey
leads up Broadway and Riverside
Drive to the city limits. Two hundred
or more automobiles are expected to
accompany the racing cars as far as
Yonkers.
Three of the drivers who will COM
pete In this race contested in h IA
nous Pekin to Paris race, the success
of which caused the present unusual
, contest to be projected. A part of the
Journey is to be made over the same
route ~traversed by the winning car in
the Pekin to Paris race-from Irkutsk,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-10
Big Auto Run Will Require
from Six to Nine
Months.

rivers of Alaska and Siberia are a part
of the equipment and various devices
for retaining heat in the engines and
radiators have been made. Camp
utensils, repair outfits and stores will
make cumbersome baggage. The route
leads through many miles of heretofore
untraveled wastes, but so far as It has
been possible the committee in charge
of the contest have made arrangements
for supply stations. h drivers, 1t Is
believed, will elect to keep together
through the more difficult stages of the
trip, leaving the speed feature to tho
last.
Reaching San Francisco by way OF
Southern California, a detour from
| Reno carrying them south to Mo1ave,
Santa Barbara, the Automobiles viii
take a steamer to Seattle and there
transfer to another steamer to Valdez,
| Alaska. A journey of 1,100 miles by
| snow-packed roads and frozen rivers
will bring the racers to Nome.
The arrangements for crossing Boring
Straits are not yet perfected. Unless
there is solid ice, a teaIner will be
taken to East Cape, Siberia. a matter
of some sixty miles. Then the autoists
will skirt the frozen shore of the Arctic
Sea to the mouth of the Lena River,
Up this frozen stream they will make
their way 10 Irkutsk. from which point
the roads to Moscow. st. Petersburg
| Berlin and Paris are well defined.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-10
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KiddO Gets in Some Hard
Questions on the
Veteran.

Kiddo opened his weather Y and
squinted at the Mike behind the bar,
and two more glasses were served up.
well, tell me, what do you know
about the crookedness of pugillsm?"
queried the knowing one.
1 had to check him somewhere and /
said, Halt a minute. You may not
believe me, but / have seen fighters go
to sleep so quickly that DR.. Osler never
would have had to use the chloroform
if he only had the receipt of some of
the fakirs I know. And before we
part, kid, just remember this. The
reason why in the past there was no
calcium light thrown on these methods
/ refer to was because of the fact that
many of the men in a position to do
so had their hands tied. They were
either friends of the men behind the
fighters or else they were interested
in the club holding the fights, and how
did they dare to open up.
But now. here, at least, things are
different. Since Spuds from Bostor
came into power you can say a thing
and you don't have to have any feai
| of being sa~ndbagged. Don't know wht
| Spuds is, Ell? Well, we'll, but you ar
O bright genius to be lowering aroun
a. fighting mans desk. Go find out VIII
he is and tomorrow 1 may tell you o
a few fights where the science of fakinl
was used on thousands"
rs taking a science? "asked the kid
but / was out of the door talking t
Mike T'ully at the Four Corners be
fore l made up my mind whether or no
the kid was ioShinR or only string
ing me.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-10
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CURLING FAST BECOMING
POPULAR WINTER SPORT.
First Match of Season Played
Saturday by Teams of the
Newark Club.

While the ice lasts the Newark Curl
Ing Club will have daily matches at
Arlington Pond, and the sport IS
destined to have u general revival this
winter. The members of the local club
were out Saturday afternoon, Rink No
! defeating team No. > in a practise
game, IS points to 10.
The Kinks were made NJ as follows;
Rink No. III. Mcdowell. p. Ander-
son. j. Lunn, ]. Murphy, e. Ketchum,
skip.
Rink No. 2-P. Rau, a. Jones. w
Gray, j. Holmes, S. Thornton. skip.
Curling is not generally known, but
to the followers of tho game 1t is as
popular as is hockey with collegians.
~schoolboys and athletic clubs. 1t is an
interesting sight. seeing the iva
teams send the tones gliding over the
ice, sweeping now in the way II the
object is travelling too fast or clearing
the course If speed is required.
TITS considered a great game IN
European countries" remarked one OF
the players, land would be just as
! popular here II the ice lasted longer.