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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
ACTION DELAYED ON
LICENSE INSPECTOR
Council to Wait a Week to Hear from
Auditor Before Considering the
Mayors Recommendation to
Abolish Office

Because City Auditor Mushet asked
further time in which to report, the
message of the mayor asking that the
position of police license inspector be
abolished was laid over a week by the
council.
Last Tuesday Mayor Alexander sent
a communication to the council asking
that the place held by James A. Craig,
police license inspector, be abolished,
as he believed the patrolmen on their
beats could do the work Craig is doing
and save the city money.
The position was created on the rec
ommendation of the city auditor, and
before taking action the council re-
ferred the message to Mr.. Mushet. Mr..
Mushet was a member of a party of
city officials which spent all of last
week on tour of the aqueduct, and he
did not have time to make a report,
but he declared yesterday he believed
Craig was making money for the city.
Craigs monthly report submitted yes
license ordinance were becoming fewer
every day, and that much more license
money had been collected than under
the old plan before his position was
created.
The report showed that during the
month 100 violators of the license ordi-
nance were before the city prosecutor
for non-payment of license fees, and
that threatened legal proceedings re-
suited in the payment of more than
$500 into the city treasury in addition
to the regular license fees.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
CITY WILL SUPPORT
MUNICIPALITY BAND
COUNCIL AGREES TO PAY EX-
PENSES FOR MUSIC
Mercantile and Civic Associations Are
Willing to Pay Share of Costs for
Musicians at Various
Parks

Los Angeles is to have a municipal
band. Councilman Wallace. chairman
of the finance committee, yesterday re-
ported that his committee had agreed
to appropriate a sum of money toward
the support of such a band and that
next week the amount would be named.
The finance committee will also rec
onRend that a committee of musi-
clans be named to select the band.
Three proposals recently have been
made to the council by musical organ
izations who are anxious to be accept
ed as the municipal band, and Paul de
Longpre has an elaborate plan when
he suggested to the finance committee
about a year ago. De Longpre's idea
contemplates a much larger band and
a larger outlay of money than the
finance committee believes in can af-
ford.
The band to be selected probably will
be paid partly by the city and partly
by the mercantile and civic associa-
lions. 1t will play in the city parks
every day, going from one to another
as may be directed. The band prob
ably will be directed by board, mem
bers of which will be selected from the
city officials and from the governing
boards of civic associations.
The finance committee has invited
F. W. Blanchard, Charles Farwell Ed
son, member of the chamber of COM
merce, member of the Merchants and
association and a men,
Der of the Musicians union to a con-
ference to be held this week to further
the municipal band.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
DECLARES MUSICIANS IN
HER BAND ARE AMERICANS
Woman Manager Resents Criticism by
Councilman Of Italian Origin
of Players

Madame Won Ferris, manager of the
European Concert band, was on the
verge of tears in the council room yes
terday at what she considered a harsh
criticism of the members of her COM
pany by Councilman Dromgold.
Madame Won Ferris has submitted a
proposition to the council for a muni-
cipal band to play every day in the
city parks. She would have the city
pay 500 a week toward the support of
the band and collect the rest from bust
ness men. Her proposition is in the
hands of the finance committee. This
committee has been slow to act, and
yesterday Madame Won Ferris appeared
before the council to state that her
band had taken a three months con-
tract at Portland, but she wanted her
proposition to stand.
Dromgold asked her the nationality
of her musicians and she declared they
were mostly Italians. Then Dromgold
told her that If Los Angeles is to have
municipal band he would take the
position that the musicians must be
American citizens. He believed he
said, in supporting Americans before
foreigners. Madame Won Ferris indig-
nantly told Mr.. Dromgold that all her
musicians were good American citizens
and she believed an Italian was as good
a citizen as one of any other national
lty. Most of the members of her or
ganization were born in this country,
and those who were not are natural
lied.
When he learned they were citizens
OF the United States Dromgold ex-
pressed himself satisfied on this point,
but it took the utmost tact on the part
of Councilman Wallace to prevent the
tears that gathered in the eyes of
Madame Won Ferris from falling
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
SIZE OF BREAD is
TO BE REGULATED
STANDARD LOAF MUST WEIGH
THIRTY-TWO OUNCES
Council Instructs City Attorney to
Draw Ordinance Requiring Bakers
to Stamp Their Name on
Product

After three weeks of spirited dis
cussion on the part of nearly every
member of the council, that body yes
terday instructed the city attorney to
draw an ordinance regulating the size
of loaves of bread.
The regulation will require that a
loaf of bread shall be 80 ounces, three
quarters loaf "a ounces, half loaf 16
ounces and quarter loaf ounces The
name of the maker and the weight of
the bread must be stamped on each
loaf. OF the nine councilmen Blan-
chard was the only one to vote against
this ordinance.
One of the most peculiar phases of
the situation was the readiness with
which Dromgold voted for this regu-
lation. From the beginning Dromgold
had consistently opposed a standard
weight for a loaf. His contention has
been that the baker should be permit
ted to make his bread any weight he
chose but that this weight. whatever
it was, should be stamped on the loaf.
He contended that by fixing a stan
dard the bakers would be compelled
to change their whole system of bread
making and that the only object of
the ordinance was the protection of the
public. By stamping the weight on
the bread the public would know what
it was getting.
j. r. Newberry, representing the
Master Bakers association, declared
that organization has unanimously
passed a resolution favoring a stan
dard weight for bread and that no
difference would be made in the bak-
ing system by such a standard.
The weights to be fixed in the or
finance are those suggested by Mayor
Alexander and S. w. Green, city sealer
If weights and measures, in a joint
they submitted to the
council three weeks ago.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
Municipal Affairs
MAY COMPROMISE ON
HEALTH BOARDS PLAN
COUNCIL HESITATES TO CUT
DOWN NUMBER OF PLACES
Will Be Abolished and Number of
Sanitary Inspectors In
creased to Sixteen

The council and the board of health
may be able to reach a compromise on
the matter Of abolishing classified posi-
tions in the health department By the
terms of the expected compromise the
board probably will not be able to save
the city the $4,000 1t had expected, but
all inspectors, with the exception of
meat and milk, will be made sanitary
inspectors, and the efficiency of the de-
partment increased.
But there are five members of the
council who will not listen to any
proposition to reduce the number OF
employees in the health department. In
the first place some of the incumbents
of the jobs it is proposed to abolish are
their political henchmen, and in the
second place the opposition considers it
is establishing a mighty bad precedent
to voluntarily reduce the number of
city jobs.
Save the city money by cutting
down the number of jobsl Whoever
heard of such a thing!" they gasp.
And, in fact it is a most unusual thing
for a city department to declare there
are too many people drawing salaries
on its pay roll. 1t is common enough
for heads of departments to ask the
council for more employees and more
money, but in the memory of the oldest
attache Of the city hall the health board
is the first department to ask that the
number of employees be reduced.
Favor Sixteen Inspectors
The health boards plan is to abolish
the positions of inspectors, as follows:
Restaurant and assistant restaurant,
garbage, lodging house, fruit and veg
etable and bakery, and the position of
secretary of the board of health. In
place of these positions the board asks
eleven sanitary inspectors and three as
sistants, instead of the ten sanitary in
spectors, as at present, and for the
position of secretary would have a
combined telephone operator and stem
ographer at a salary not to exceed SIS
a month. The boards idea is that
sanitary inspector should be able to do !
the work of any of these classifications |
Under the present system it sometimes |
occurs that a restaurant inspector,
bakery inspector, garbage inspector and |
vegetable inspector visit the same es-
adjustment in day. BY having all |
sanitary inspectors one man could do |
the work of all four of these persons.
The five members of the council who |
oppose the reduction in the force and |
the consequent saving to the city of |
about $4,000 a year are Blanchard.
Healy, Lyon, Yonlxin and Clampitt.
But these counciimen have expressed
themselves ready to vote for the aboli-
ton of the classified inspectors and
make all the classified inspectors sani-
tary inspectors, provided those now
holding the classified positions will be
retained in sanitary inspectors posi-
lions. This will make sixteen inspectors
instead of the eleven inspectors and
their assistants recommended by the
board of health.
The council and the board of health
Will meet in the council chamber Fri
lay afternoon to discuss the matter.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
SOUTHSlDERS TO
GET S CENT FARE
LOW RATE WILL EXTEND TO
MANCHESTER AVENUE
RESIDENTS MUST BUY BOOK OF
TWENTY TICKETS
New Schedule on Redondo Line to
Head of Shoestring Strip Will
Become Effective
May IS

| The fight for scent car fares which
the residents of the recently annexed
territory at the head of the shoestring
strip have been waging for more than
year was won yesterday when w. E.
Dunn, representing the Huntington in
terests, told the council that the o.
cent fare as far south as Manchester
avenue would be given in new sched-
ule operative May 10.
To secure this scent fare those who
use the Los Angeles edondo line for
transportation must purchase a 20-ride
ticket, which will be sold for 81.
J. B. Cook, president of the Manches-
ter Heights Improvement association,
demurred little to this concession. He
declared the residents and property
| owners of the district he represented
wanted a straight scent fare. The
territory in which they live is as much
part of the city as the Westlake dis
trict or Highland Park he said, and
he believed his people should not be
compelled to spend a dollar to get the
benefit of scent fares. But, he added
they would feel grateful for this con-
cession, as II represented a difference
of several thousand dollars every year.
Those who are not regular patrons of
tllC lliC W III Sllil nave 10 pay a lucent
fare each way to Manchester avenue
and return.
When the shoestring strip was an
nexed to Los Angeles the portion of the
Los Angeles-RedOndo line as far south
as Manchester avenue was included. |
At Manchester avenue the strip was
turned a little to one side so that no |
more of this line would be included |
By reason of the fact that this por- |
ton of the line was in the city limits |
the contention was made that scent |
fares should be granted. The railway !
objected to this on the ground |
that If the city had the right to force |
5-cent fares in this district it had the
right to demand that passengers should
be carried to San Pedro for cents
in the event the limits of the city were
extended to include all the railway
line.
The question of franchise is involved.
but the city attorney yesterday told
the council that it had forfeited none
OF the city's rights in the franchise
matter through the concession granted
by the railway in the matter of fares.
The Los Angeles Redondo line runs
to Second and Spring streets, but ii
has no franchise north of jefferson
street. The council has authorized the
elty attorney to begin action against
he railway to compel it to secure
franchise. Mr.. Dunn yesterday told
he council that if it was necessary to
secure franchise to Second and
Spring streets the Redondo cars would
De stopped at Jefferson street and pas-
'engers transferred to the Los Angeles
'ailway line.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
CITY HALL NOTES

An ordinance passed by the council
yesterday exempts honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors from pay
ing license fees for peddling.
The dog year. was amended yester-
day so that hereafter dog licenses will
expire July l, the beginning of the fiscal
year, instead of June l, as has been the
rule.
Residents who live near the Baker
iron works yesterday petitioned the
council for legislation to prohibit the
use of pneumatic hammers and drills
in the foundry. The council does not
believe it has Jurisdiction, but re-
ferred the matter to the city attorney
for an opinion.
The Humane Animal league has three
drinking fountains ready to be erected,
and so notified the council yesterday.
The council ordered the city attorney
to prepare the necessary resolution Civ
ing the league the authority to place
these fountains where they are most
needed. The league furnishes the foun-
tain and the city the water
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
viii Quit Repavine

By a resolution passed by the city
council yesterday no more paved or
otherwise improved streets will be ac-
cepted by the city on conditions that
the city repave the streets when worn
out.
This action was brought about by a
recommendation of the board of pub
lie works that First street from Ala
media to Santa Fe be repaved. Under
the terms of the acceptance the city
will have to pay the largest portion
of this reconstruction work. The rail-
way will have to pay for repaving its
own right of way and for two feet on
either side.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
The Theaters

Charles Swickard, who translated
Sudermann's "The Fires of st. john -
| and who got into row with Nance
O'Neill regarding that young woman
rights to use the play without paying
him royalty for it, has constructe l
another drama which he says is even
better than the Sudermann adaptation.
Mr.. Swickard, who is now member
of the Kolb and Dill company at the
Majestic theater, resigned last night
and will go north to put his new play
into rehearsal for summer coast tour
He will leave Kolb and Dill next Sat
urday.
Robert Romans has written friends
in Los Angeles announcing his mar
riage in San Francisco to Miss Agnes
Maynard, formerly of Portland. Mr..
Eomans is now a member of the Va
lencia stock company. Two years ago
he was associated with the Morosco
players at the Burbank. His bride
never has been upon the stage.
Blanche Hall, leading oman of the
Burbank stock company, is dressing a
Peter Pan" doll for church fair in
Glendale. Miss Hall was interested in
the fair through the solicitation of
Messrs. Stockbridge, Duffield, Giblyn
and Mestayer, all of whom live in
Glendale and all of whom are helping.
The particular Church" interested is
a Catholic church, and none of the act
ors is Catholic, but they know and adj
mire Father McNeill and consequently
there will be an actors table at that
fair
Word has come to their friends in
Los Angeles that Walter De Leon and
Muggins Davies are to be married next
Sunday in Oakland. Both are members
of the Ferris Hartman company, which
recently closed a prolonged engage
ment in Los Angeles, and both have
many admirers here.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
DISHMAN'S NEW LIQUOR
SQUAD MAKES TWO ARRESTS

sam LoWenStein, proprietor of the
BURBANK cafe, and B. M. Jangrodovich
owner of the Queen restaurant 254
North Main street, were arrested yes
lefday on a complaint issued by Deputy
PROSECUTOR seymour. charging them
with conducting the business of whole-
sale liquors without having a license
Lowenstein and Jangrodovich were
arraigned in Police Justice Frederick
sons court yesterday afternoon ana
pleaded not guilty to the charges and
will appear for trial Friday morning
They are at liberty under 500 bail
each.
According to Patrolmen Clifford and
brown, who made the arrests. the
restaurant proprietors sold quart bot
ties of beer to messenger boys and AL
lowed the liquor to be taken from their
place OF business to be drunk. Each
of the accused are alleged to have
made two sales last Sunday. The res
taurant men hold restaurant liquor
dealers licenses, which provides thar
the liquor must be sold only with meals
and must be drunk on the premises.
The arrests followed the efforts Of
Chief Dishman to have the SUNDAY
liquor ordinance enforced by detailing
a squad OF plain clothes ypatrolmen TO
inspect the various restaurants on Sun
days.
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and Hartley Shaw the interests of the
supervisors.
Yesterdays session was attended by
the directors of the water company
ana score Of petitioners, and much in
terest was manifested in the proceed
lnss. Both sides have agreed to finish
tnelr testimony at Thursdays session.
after which the decision of the super-
visors viii be rendered.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
PARAPHERNALIA FOR
GAMBLING RETAINED
OWNER OF RESORT RAIDED
SUES POLICE
Brings Suit, but Fails to Appear at
Trial and Accouterments Are
Returned and Will Be
Destroyed

A roulette wheel, thousands of poker
chips, hundreds of decks of cards and
other gambling paraphernalia. relics of
the police raid of April %. 1908, when a
place conducted by 7. c. Lynch on the
top floor of a South Hill street hotel
was closed filled the long table in front
of Judge Bordwells bench and over
flowed on the courtroom floor yester-
day. They were exhibits to be intro
duced in behalf of the police depart
ment in Lynch's suit against Edward
Kern, former chief of police, in which
recovery of the property and damages
of 500 were demanded.
No response was made by Lynch or
his counsel when the case was called,
and the motion of John w. Shenk, as
sistant city attorney, to dismiss the
action was granted. The gambling par
aphernalia was returned to the police
station and will later be destroyed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15

cur in the janitor force of the city hall
and that White would be eligible for
the position.
der has taken issue with another The
council received a communication from
the Afro American council yesterday,
signed by J. N. Alexander the presi-
dent, protesting against the recommen-
dalton of Mayor Alexander that the
position be abolished. President Alex
ander, who is a negro, declared that
Mayor Alexander was playing politics
in removing the job from the man.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
COUNCIL POSTPONES
AB0LlSHING OFFICE
Mayors Messenger to Be Given JAM
TORS Job at City Hall if Position
Is Abandoned

In order that Frank White. the young
negro who holds the position of may
or's messenger, may have place as
city hall janitor as soon as the Office
he occupies is abolished the council
yesterday postponed action on the or
dinance abolishing the position of
mayors messenger.
Councilman Wallace, who heartily
approves of the plan to abolish the po-
sition which Mayor Alexander has de-
clared is useless, is also much i'm
pressed with the way in which White
has conducted himself since he has held
that office. and he said yesterday he was
anxious that White should secure an
other position as soon as possible. The
other members of the council were Of
the same opinion, for White is popular
with the city officials.
Councilman Yonkin announced that
within a few DAYS vacancy would oc-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
Report on vrooman Act Wanted

The council yesterday instructed the
city attorney to hasten his report to
the city engineer on some new points
in the Vrooman act law. Some import
ant street work is being held up pend
ing this decision.
By an amendment to the Vrooman
act passed by the legislature at it's last
session the citv is limited in it's powers
to acquire Jurisdiction for sidewalking
and other details that heretofore have
been included in all street work, and
the city engineer is at loss to know
how to proceed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
Squadron on Cruise

WASHINGTON, May 64-Rear Adj
miral HARDER, commanding the third
squadron of the Pacific fleet, sailed to-
day with all the protected cruisers of
that squadron-the flagship Charleston,
the Cleveland, the Denver, the Calves
ton and the Chattanooga-fro Kobe
for Yokohama on their annual sum-
mer cruise
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
earvanzans Allowed Claims

Acting on the recommendation of the
board Of public works, the council yes
terday allowed three small claims to
property owners in Garvanza. The
claimants and the amounts allowed
We're: G. e. Manor. $50; Isaac Critics.
300, and John Harding. 800. Harding
and Critics presented claims for $4,000
each and Manor for $1,000
Ihese claims grew out of the grad
ing OF Pasadena avenue. When the
grade for this street was established
the street was made higher than the
natural outlet of water. No culverts
were placed in the street, and as
natural result storm water was inn
pounded and caused some damage to
property.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
Merchant Drops Dead

SAN FRANCISCO, May Al. j..
a well known merchant
member of the furnishing goods firm of
I1agleson e Co., dropped dead late this
afternoon at the corner of Stockton and
Geary streets. Heart. disease is be-
lieved to have been the cause.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
Overdue Boat Arrives

SEATTLE, May 4.-The British bark
Hawthorne, from Terneusen, Holland
August 81, with a cargo Of creosote and
reported as overdue four weeks ago,
arrived this morning
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-15
Breakfast I5C

Cream of wheat and cream,
country sausage and hot cakes,
hot rolls and butter, cup of cof-
fee, 15c. Cafe open a. m.
Try one of these famous Spe-
cial Breakfasts.