Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Ball to Be Given Taft-When

Ball to Be Given Taft-When
President Taft visits Chicago, Septem-
Der &c. a ball will be given in his honor
in the Auditorium hhall by te American
Bankers association, which will be
holding it's annual convention in that
city at that time.
To Try to Get Health-Mayor
Tom L. johnson dropped Cleveland's
affairs and began an automobile tour
of the eastern states, to last week or
more, in an effort to recuperate his
strength. Physicians have ordered him
to cease all eXertions requiring concen-
trated effort, warning the mayor of
impending nervous collapse.
Establishes Charity-The novel
charity launched by Miss Mary Harri-
man, daughter of e. II. Hartman, is
now in full operation in New York.
| This is the floating rest cure for Brook
lyn school children, maintained by the
Brooklyn tuberculosis committee. Miss
Hartman obtained the Erie railroad
ferryboat Susquehanna for the project.
Airship Falls-A new military
airship with a crew of six men fell 900
feet at Rome in an ascension Saturday,
and landed in Lake Bracciano with a
tremendous splash. The accident was
caused by the escape of gas, which
could not be checked. The crew was
rescued but ethe airship was consider
ably damaged. If the airship had fallen
on land there probably would have
been several fatalities.
To Kill City Noises - Mrs.
Isaac L. Rice, who is head of the anti
noise society in New York, arrived from
| Europe Friday She returns with a
CO FOR. IA Of ell 10
said on arriving: THE first anti-noise
convention held in London was a great
success, despite the fact that only four
countries were represented by the three
delegates present. These countries
We're America, England, Austria and
Germany"
Medals for Infants - Because
reports on births have not been made
promptly. the mayor of Portsmouth,
Va, has declared his intention to offer
on the part of the city a silver medal
bearing the name and birth date of
every child born. 1t will carry with it
on the opposite side of the medal the
seal of the city. If parents fail to re-
port for medals the mayor proposes to
have both attending physicians and
parents fined.
Scores Colleges - That the
American people are numbering their
mother tongue and one of the great
opportunities for reform at the present
time is to teach them the English Ian
guage was the opinion expressed at
Chautauqua, N. Y, by President
Faunce of Brown university. ProVi-
dence, r. I. He did not spare Ameri-
can colleges in his arraignment, and
declared they are turning out an
alarming proportion of actual litter
| ates.
To Make Magnetic Survey
The non-magnetic surveying ship Car
negie sailed Saturday from Brooklyn,
N. Y, to begin for the Cargenie insti-
tute at Washington the work of making
a magnetic survey of the Atlantic, In
dian and Pacific oceans, and gathering
data about magnetic attractions and
variations in waters hitherto uneX-
plored. She will proceed first to Card
! iner's Bay Mass, for compass adjust
ment. and then to st. Johns, N. F., the
coast of Labrador and Hudson bay.
King Shaves Off Whiskers-
A special cable from London to the
| Chicago Tribune says: "When King
Alfonso arrived at San Sebastian from
Madrid he was wearing side whiskers
and had his hair cut short The king
thought this gave him the appearance
! of an admiral in the British navy, but