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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
LOS ANGELES HARBOR

FINDER municipal control of Los
Angeles harbor port charges will
~ be as low as possible. 1t is pos
sible pilotage will be made free, and
the pilots placed on a salary paid out
of the income of the port. Information
is being obtained from Pacific, Gulf and
Atlantic ports, asking for wharfage
charges on the various commodities
handled here in large quantities, dock
age rates, the charges made for tying
vessels up to wharves and the cost Of
stevedoring.
Los Angeles harbor will offer the
shipping of the world facilities equal to
those offered by any other harbor in
the world. 1t will be the constant aim
OF all connected with harbor manage
ment to make our seaport a fair and
square business institution, giving a
square deal, and expecting square deal
ing in return.
When port charges are fixed the har-
bor commission doubtless will endeaYor
to obtain as much publicity as possible
for those charges. A detailed account
of the harbor and complete informa-
tion as to charges should be published
in all the leading maritime journals OF
the world.
Greater Los Angeles is destined to be
one of the worlds greatest seaport
cities; but Rome was not built in a
day." and neither was Rome's reputa-
tion. With improvements and fortiflca-
tions, the harbor of Greater Los An
geles will be one of the most complete
and one of the safest in the world; safe
not only from storm and tide, but from
the assault Of foreign foe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
SCHOOL

A FTER vacation and recuperation
II the teachers of Los Angeles will
- apply themselves with renewed
vigor to their task Of training citi-
zens for their part in the life Of the
nation. More and more overwhelming
becomes the evidence that even as a
mans life does not consist in the
abundance of things he possesses, so
the strength of a mans intellectually
does not depend on the amount of
stuff he knows superficially. For that
reason the cramming system is no
longer popular, and that test of ability
which measures it by the retentiveness
of the memory is being abolished and
replaced by tests for training.
An educated brain will be more ap-
preciative and discriminative than an
uneducated one, and we believe therein
lies the sum of the whole matter. In
business, in everyday affairs, as in
matters of book knowledge, the edu-
Gated brain discerns what to reject and
what to accept.
A republic is peculiarly susceptible
to the evils and troubles arising from
lack of education-that is to say not
from lack of knowledge of Greek and
Latin and the dates of the Carthagin-
ian wars, but from lack of the ability
to distinguish the true from the false,
the best from the worst.
The intent of all mind training leads
us back in a curious circle to the very
beginning of things in the Garden OF
Eden" for now as in the first days
of the exercise of the reasoning facul-
ty, human beings are asked to eat the
fruit of the tree of knowledge and be-
come superior intellectuals with the
ability to know what is good and what
Is evil and to choose to devote theil
lives To good, or to evil, or to that
mixture of good and evil which makes
man the queer, inconsistent, vacillat
ing, uncertain, Jekyll-Hyde puzzle he IL
today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
coMMENDs MOVEMENT TO
STOP SMOKING ON CARS

INGLEWOOD, Cal, Sept. 9.-lEditor
Herald: AS a man, want to be known
as one who is in hearty sympathy with
the w. c.. T. u. in its struggle with
the smoke nuisance on public cars.
Some members of the city council may
sincerely doubt their moral right OF
prohibiting smoking on cars, but such
should remember that it is imperatively
their duty to protect and defend the
natural sources of life and happiness
of the people. Pure air is one such
source. Many of us desire to keep
ourselves as free from foreign and I'M
pure atmospheric conditions as possi-
BILE, vet when we board car and pay
our fare we often have to submit TO a
"second-handed' smoke and the most
nauseating conditions. When II comes
to personal rights" / cannot see now
any man has any more right to pollute
the air which I am about to breathe
with tobacco smoke than 1 have to foul
the water which he is about to drink
by splitting into it. I respect the care
full consideration of the city council,
but / do think that such consideration
should lead to the adoption of an ordi-
nance prohibiting smoking on all public
cars. b. w. Ghlff1Ih'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
OVERWORK

" ARRIMAN'S capacity for work
was astounding to the last. We
IL don't believe there is another
case on record in which a man weak
ened by disease dictated letters for one
hour and twenty minutes, and before
the shorthand secretary had time to
transcribe them was dead.
That secretary has certainly a most
useful and uncanny recollection to
carry with him through life.
Did Hartman enjoy the existence
which was so strangely terminated ?
What pleasure, what profit is there in
sacrificing any human being to such a
crushing pressure Of gainful work that
it predominates and finally squeezes
out the very life? Jesus asked, what
does it profit a man if he gained the
whole world-if he got possession of
all existing material value-and lost
his own identity.
To those who have puzzled over this
scriptur~l passage Gall the more bewil-
dering because we believe the word
which in this instance ought to be
translated identity is rendered souD,
the case of Hartman should offer full,
complete, satisfactory explanation.
Since Hartman was so absorbed, so
enthralled, so imprisoned, so manacled
so taken possession of and enslaved
by business that it occupied even the
closing hours of his life, who can doubt
that Harriman's identity or self to a
great extent had been lost or merged
in Harriman's business interests?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
THE RUMP

n PREPARATIONS being made for the
rump convention indicate the pub
L lie is to be insulted with a recru-
descence of S. P. politics and a revival
and renewal of the pernicious activities
of S. P. politicians. With cool delibera-
tion the professional politicians are ad-
dressing themselves to the task of
beating the primaries, of defeating the
will of the people.
The Southern Pacific political bureau
| is doing business at the old stand. Wal
| ter Parker's faithfuls are at their posts.
The boss is holding the fort, and has
manned the outposts with his under
strappers and bosslets.
To those who have watched and
studied the recent political history of
Los Angeles the end Of all this nonsense
is apparent. No doubt it is hard for
the boss to realize his day is over, and
this fair city will no longer be his
happy hunting ground, but nothing is
more certain than that the very at
tempt of the desperate S. P. gang to
outwit the primaries will do more to
arouse public indignation and put the
gang out of business than even the
most fragrant political atrocity hereto
fore attempted at any time in the his
tory of the worst political machine in
the United States.
Whom the gods would utterly destroy
they first make mad, and as far as may
be determined by their methods their
plans, their purposes, the jumpers are,
politically speaking, "as crazy as
looms" They must not expect the pub-
lie to take them seriously. Long ago
they passed the bounds of common
decency But now they have passed
the bounds of common sanity; and are
showing as much sense of responsibility
as a flock of looms.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
CARLOTTA DOUBTS TRUTH
OF SCIENTISTS OPINION

THE HEIGHTS, Sept 10,-[Editor
Herald: 1t is not for arguments sake
that seek some space in your Letter
Box. It may be time poorly spent in
taking notice of one who in her rhap-
sodical babble elaborated a lame de-
fense of laXity of morals.
/ hold my position in the field as an
ardent supporter of high ideals as OPP
posed to a go-as-you- please and repent
at leisure. AS for repentance" If it's
genuine 1t rests between the erring and
their God / have expressed no doubt
of it's efficacy, as has been asserted:
NY criticism pertained only to the real
value of humans lives here, ana OF
their pleasure and progress here ana
hereafter. Time spent otherwise than
in that which is noble and upright, with
the tacit agreement with oneself TO
make amends, is so much time forever
lost. This is Biblical; it is also Panthe-
ism and other beliefs. AS for M. M, S
quotation of Christ's words that she
thinks helps her out. ! FIRST quoted
the same, but she chose to be blind to
the fact. "And Carlotta would have
told her to go to hell!''
such a studied, malicious misrepre-
sentation of my words and sentiments
admits of no reply. The hell she al
ludes to has no place in my practical
Christianity.
There are such places here, and no
doubt we all are responsible for their
existence.
If memory serves us Alright, DR..
Humanitas is infidel rather than Chris
tian, and from paganism he draws and
defines morals VIII DR.. II. please to
tell us why even ten righteous men live
to become a benedlction to their race"
If pollution of self and soul Is 'sclen-
tifically' needful for mankind how dc
even a few rise to enviable heights
morally, spiritually and intellectually
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
CRANBERRIES

NRANBERRIES are coming-the
fruit California does not grow, the
~ fruit that loves the damp. messy,
marshy fields of the east. But cram
berries follow the flag. 1t doesn't mat
ter what may be their geographical
habitat, cranberry's a cranberry for
"a that, from Maine to California. And
wherever it goes it reminds the folk of
back east, of cranberry tarts, and cram
berry pies, and cranberry sauce and
the adjacent turkey.
When the cranberries come in the
turkeys begin to look anxious, and we'll
they may, for Thanksgiving ahead,
and that means turkey; and Christmas
is little further along the road, and
that means TURKEY; and then comes
New Year, and still more turkeys join
the silent majority. Or, stay! That's
hardly correct. While the unassimi-
liable portions OF them perish, consider
able quantities OF turkey are benevo-
lently assimilated.
And thus, when the glad New Year
arrives, when the Merrie Yule Tide is
with us, thousands of benevolently as
simulated turkeys become naturalized
in American citizens, and the nation,
reanimated by the generous diet, goes
forward with renewed strength and
health into the unknown which later
becomes known and is materialized in
cold type in the daily papers. Some
turkeys are stuffed with chestnuts. We
think we can always detect the citi-
zens who have incorporated that style
of turkey.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
SOUTH CALIFORNIA

N YMPHONY hall mass meeting this
afternoon will have the effect of
~ placing before the country fairly
and squarely the fact Of the existence
in Southern California of a hearty de-
sire for separate statehood, a desire
which has received such strength and
impetus from the action of the state
board of equalization" that it will find
definite shape as a movement, and a
committee or a commission to take the
entire matter of statehood under ad-
visement may be formed.
Separation is a serious step, involv-
ing a multitude of details, and can be
accomplished successfully only by the
exercise of great sagacity, wisdom,
caution, prudence and mutual forbear-
ance on the part of the two divisions
that will form the new states of North
California and South California. We
believe citizens and taxpayers realize
the seriousness of the proposal, or the
suggestion, and know it will involve
far more than holding mass meetings
and passing resolutions. At the same
time we know that if it should be
deemed necessary to protect the inter-
ests of South California by remov-
ing them from the sphere Of influence
of northern gougers, Los Angeles will
head the separation movement with
its customary vim and vigor, and the
proceedings incidental to the forma-
tion of the state of South California
will be carried through to a triumph
antly successful conclusion in the Los
Angeles way.
Los Angeles is the natural center OF
the southland-the hub" Greater Los
Angeles would be a constant inspira-
tion to the state of South California
and South California would arouse in
Los Angeles a greater desire than
ever for the leadership Of the Pacific
which would make South California
one of the most important states ir
| the Union.
1t can be done. Should it be done
And IL it ought to be done, should
it be done now? Perhaps in Shake
spearean language, IF it were done
when 'twere done, then 'twere well Il
were done quickly"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

Blest be the tie that binds commu-
mites or countries that have interests
in common. But blest be the good
sense that knows the psychical mo-
no longer blest. The psychical moment
has come in California. Let North
California go her way in peace and
prosperity: and hurrah for South Cali
fornia, the state of perpetual sunshine
and prosperity
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
AT THE THEATERs

AUDIT0RIUM-"The Witching Hour"
MASON-"CameO Kirby"
BURBANK-'Before and After"
BELASCO-''The Squaw Man."
MAJESTIC-"Dream City"
ORPHEUM-YaudeYille
GRAND-"Ten Nights in a Bar Room"
LOS Notwithstanding
UNIQUE-VaudevilIe and comedy.
EISCHER'S-Burlesque.
EMPIRE-MusicaI comedy.
ARROW-Variety.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

people should not have freedom of
choice of candidates for office. Accus-
toned for many years to interfere with
freedom of choice of candidates and
freedom of elections, it cannot recon-
cile itself to the prospect of honest
choice and q fair election.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

Was the south Soaked" because
those most interested think it won't
long be as easy to soak the south as
it is now? Did the S. p. board of
unequalization say Last chance.
Have at the varlets?"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

ity for each other and could look with
In our own selves and see our own
meanness as we should. we have little
time to despise our weak sisters and
brothers. For we were not at their
Waterloo, else maybe we would have
been found wanting as well as they.
I will say, in conclusion, lest you fear
1 am some awful man or some MARY
M. that I am wife and a mother
of a large family, and that, I suppose,
is some excuse for my ignorance OF
nresent conditions. ANGELINA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to CORES pOndents,
but assumes responsibility for their views
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

Endeavor to exploit one part of a
state for the benefit of another is as
ploit one citizen for the benefit of an
other; and in the one case as in the
other, complete business separation is
not only justifiable but necessary.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

A few days ago most people would
have sworn the north pole had been
discovered. Now they think lin all
probability it has been discovered. An
ill-timed and unfortunate wrangle has
marred the effect of the most impor-
tant geographical discovery of modern
times
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

Building goes ahead briskly in Great
er Los Angeles. Prosperity is the prin-
cipal "city oficial!" Prosperity pre-
sides over the destinies of Los Angeles
from year to year.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

It is easier to plan rump conven-
ton than to win a rump victory over
the candidates of the people.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

South California is good enough
for US.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

And what about "woman's inability to
support herself?" What about ''indis-
soluble marriage and repressing di-
vorce laws?' Fly! on scientific DR..
1t is doubtful If he
knows tartaric acid from sage tea.
CARLOTTA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

Tomorrow-The Manchuran Question
Nv; The COnquering Railroad.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
The Mancl1uriam Question
III-The Myth of the ''Open Door"
BY Frederic j. HaSkin
BY Frederic j. HaSkin

has been a
great deal of talk about
the "open door" in Man
churia. 1t has been the
subject of diplomatic notes
and "re p resentations"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13

PopulationofLos Angeles 327,685
New-York tribune., 1909-04-20
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.

Free admission 10 the Metropolitan Museum Of Art,
American Museum Of Natural History and the Zoo
logical Garden
RingIinR Brothers Circus. Madison Square Garden.
Meeting Of the New York CIassis Reformed
church, Marble Collegiate Church. 10 a. m and
2. N.
Conference on '-Truancy and the ChldLen's Theatre
Charity Organization Society, United Charities Build
ing No I05 22d street. II a.
Annual luncheon of the National California Club Of New
York wsldorf-Astorfs, 1890 ?. n
card party for the the hospital bed fund Of the
National Society OF New England women ttotel
- Endcott. afternoon
Uarodu tea Under the auspices Ladies Auxiliary
of the St Lawrence Hospital, home Of Mrs. Thomas
J. shanIey, No. 80 Riverside Drive. to p
Entertainment aid Of Workers Clab for Women.
Berkeley Theatre. West f4th street. p
Dinner OF the Quill Club Hotel Manhattan, $50 p.
Conference on city budget by civic and charitable
cies. Colony Club. p m
Professor g Dickinson Ideals OF Democracy,
Earl Hall, Columbia University. 4 80 p IN.
Dinner FOR Mayor Mcclellan by the Princeton Club, Wal
dorf, 2.
Celebration Of the hfy-nfth anniversary OF Brooklyn
Polytechnic Preparatory School. Livingston street,
Brooklyn. p m.
Borough Evening Borough Hall St George Staten
Island. S:i5 p.
Dramatic entertainment McAlpn Literary society. Christ
Church, No. 3S6 West 3sth street p. N.
Professor James T. shotweli Napoleon and the
Foundation Of Modern France Peoples Institute,
Cooper Union. y. III
r.,entferh anniversary Squadron 4. y. @. y. Y.
arfnory gath street and Madison avenue. p
,5.ntton W Nabie Value Of the Kindergarten"
the Public Education Association, No
B24 West 42d street, p. Ii.
Professor william a. Davis -The Lessons o. The
Colorado Cahon.' American Geographical Society
No 20 West 3eth street. $50 :. II
New-York tribune., 1909-04-20
OBITUARY..
Ex-JupeE GEORGE M. VAN HoEsEN.

After an illness of more than north, George
NJ. Van Hoesen, formerly a judge OF the old com
mon Pleas Court, died late Sunday night from
Brights disease at the home Of his sister Mrs
William Jaw Ives. No 800 Central Park West.
Judge Van Hoesen was taken i'll about month
ago at Nvack y Y where he had made his home
since retiring from the practice of law. and at the
request of his sister came to her home.
In 1872 Judge Van Hoesen took up the practice OF
law with his brother, John Van Hoesen- Both
men retired about four years ago 1t Is oeheVeu
that the death of his brother year ago hdsteilea
Judge Van Hoesen's death
George W Van Hoesen born in this city
about seventy-two years ago He was educated III
the public schools and after graduating from Ne"
York University he studied law az the state anu
National Law School, Poughkeepsie, where ne
later became instructor He began the prdCtice
of law Davenport, Iowa. and also engaged N
newspaper work there The Iowa state 1'eIno-
crat."
At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized
company. of which he was made captain anu
served with the 18th Regiment Of Iowa infantry
He made major of his regiment TOT II sdnaiil ~
services at the battle of Shiloh. and took part IN
the movements initiated by General Grant whlch
resulted in the capture of Vicksburg- FoG d liltie
he was acting provost marshal general ol 'iie
armies of the field in the military division ei Iie
Mississippi.
On leaving the army he returned to this city and
engaged in the practice law In 1875 he was
elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas OF
New York City, and served fourteen years ne
was comrade of Lafayette Post, 1+, G- A H.
For three successive terms he was elected chdlr-
man Of the memorial committee of the Grand Army
posts of this city. He served as president OF the
Holland Society and chairman of the Tammany
Hall general committee, and was a member OF the
Bar Association of this city the State Bar AS
socation and of the Union Democratic and Lieder-
kranz clubs.
Judge Van Hoesen drafted the first bill intro
duced in tire Legislature for the incorporation ana
building of elevated railroad.
The funeral will be held at st. Agness Church
GOD street and Columbus avenue this morning, at
II o'clock The burial will be in the family plot at
Greenwood Cemetery.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-20
TIMOTHY PERRY.

Timothy Perry a member of one Of the Oldest
law firms in Brooklyn. died yesterday morning
after long illness at his home, No 70 Halsey
street He was born at New Ipswich, N H, in
1929 and was the youngest Of five brothers Three
Of the brothers became clergymen- The fourth
studied law, as did Timothy Perry The two formed
a firm which existed until yesterday. In 1893 ne
moved to Greenpoint. a section of Brooklyn.
and represented his part of the alder
man Later he became member of the Board
of Education. He appointed to the Board cf
Elections Of which he became president He was
formerly director Of the Mechanics and Traders
Bank. and was president Of the Greenpont Savings
Bank For more than half century he attended
the Kent street Reformed Church
New-York tribune., 1909-04-20
OBITUARY NOTES.

THE REV. DANIEL ]. SMITH. seventy seven
years old a well known member OF the New Hamp-
shire Methodist conference, died yesterday in Con
cord, n H., from the effects OF shock sustained
on Sunday while attending the conference.
CAPTAIN B. FRANK BOND. a well known Con-
federate veteran and railroad man. died in Baltt-
more yesterday, aged sixty-two years. He was
special passenger agent OF the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad in the service of which road he had been
continuously for forty-four years
MRS LUCY PALMER WILLARD, a grandniece
of the late James A Garfield. died in Seattle yes
terday Until two years ago she had lived in
Cleveland and Bedford. Ohio
HARRY FERGUSON, aged forty-one years, editor
of The West Lafayette (Ohio) Indicator" and
who was one of the founders OF West Lafayette
College, died in West Lafayette Sunday night
from hemorrhage Of the brain, caused by lifting
heavy desk.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-20
Mr.. MANTELL rs MACBETH.
Academy of Music.

The production Of Macbeth that was made last
night at the Academy of Music merits the Practlca
and thoughtful attention of all persons who ma
themselves attracted by the highest order OF poet-
cal dramatic literature, and who can enjoy ana
annreoiate the art of acting. Mr. Mantelis per-
forman5e of MaCbeth,-whiCh was seen at the New
Amsterdam Theatre lately as March 10, ana
which has often been considered in this place,-ls
marked by powerful imagination. sustained IN
vestiture OF dread, the atmosphere essential to
man feni-driven irto crime and agonized with re-
morse ami by intense feeling; while the art or H.
in expression. IS firm. cumulative. and, al certain
moments, beautiful: in the desolaton that sue
Ceeds the tremendous climax Of the banquet scene
and in the delivery of the touching words of revery
on death Far more than common attention has
been given TO the scenic setting OF the tragedy
Macbeth" will be repeated at the Academy
throughout the present week W. W.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-20
POOR CHILDREN TO SEE CIRCUS FREE

the little children in the various institutions
throughout the city, for the Ringling Brothers
have Invited ali the little peope-crphaus cripples.
destitute blInd-tO witness the great circus at
Madison Square Garden. From the number OF ap
plicaons already received it is estimated that five
thousand children viii attend. The blind children
will have the sights explained TO them by their
teachers. The new monkey house. htted up exact
" like a model apartment house Will be on exhibit
ton. as will also Little Lord Robert, hance Of
Careeta these TWO being the midgets at the show
Little Robert will make the triH from Mount Sinai
Hospital where he is recovering from an operation
for append!citis