Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
LET YOUR TREES
EARN YOURLIvING
Former Detective Sergeant Peabody
of New York City In Los Angeles
on Lookout for Race Track
Crooks
BY GEORGE HARRIS DoNoHUE

Three representatives of widely
known eucalyptus tracts were in the
rotunda of the Hotel Angelus yesterday
afternoon. and during the half hour I
passed in their company l discovered
that there was considerable method in
the supposed madness of several friends
whom l know to have recently under
taken the development of that particu-
lar new industry.
From what could gather the blue
and red gum trees are remarkably pro-
ductive In proper soil and given the
right attention. One man in the party
declared he would be able to clear at
least $4,000 off his tract in the course OF
few years-all of which sounds pretty
good to me.
easy. All you have to do is plant a few
trees and then sit around few years
until 1t is time to saw them down, and
then the next move is to convert them
into the ever ready aRd much needed
cash capital
That beats orange growing all to
pieces, as l understand there is con-
siderable manual labor attached to the
raisement of the thick skinned break
fast food, while in the eucalyptus de-
velopment there Is nothing else to do
but sit around and ponder.
Chester r. Omstead, chief clerk of
the Angelus. happened to be holding
the same position when l was in this
city two years ago. Since my recent
connection with The Herald Mr.. Olm-
stead has been the recipient of numer-
Gus missives from anxious ladies, young
and old, all of whom make the specific
request that in the event of my re-
entering the Raffles tournament he
give them ample opportunity of get
ting a close start on the gilded trail.
1 am taking this occasion to notify
all interested that in SO far as L am
concerned Raffies is a thing of the
past, so why bother Mr.. Olmsted
with silly questions.
While over in the Alexandra yester-
day morning I happened across former
Detective Sergt. Frank Peabody, who
until quite recently was one OF the
most widely known police officials In
the entire Greater New York.
Sergt. Peabody is the man who
pounced in on notorious negro burglar
early one morning in Manhattan after
the Hotel Navarro had been the stage
setting for fusillade of bullets ex-
changed between House officer Max
we'll and two burglars who were max
ing their escape down q fire escape
after having chloroformed and robbed
fifth floor of the hotel.
Sergt. Peabody secured trifling de-
scription of the negro who escaped
after officer Maxwell had captured his
partner and in less than thirty minutes
had tracked his quarry to a notorious
den at Thirty-ninth and Eighth avenue
Bursting open a door leading to
small sleeping room, Peabody jumped
in and snapped the handouts on 'Yal-
ler," as he was known to the police of
Greater New York.
Later "Yaller" was sentenced to seven
and a half years in Sing Sing, and. just
to make the matter interesting, he re-
mained in that famous prison less than
a year when he startled the police
world by making sensational escape.
Sergt. Peabody iS now engaged in
policing the large race track meets of
the western country and will leave Los
Angeles for Salt Lake City in few
days.
Two we'll known promoters who have
been making their headquarters about
the Alexandria hotel lobby are now
engaged in a wild race to Mexico. One
promoter managed to hoodwink the
other fellow with the story that he was
going to Chicago, and really did manage
to get about dozen hours start on his
business opponent before the latter was
aware of what was really happening:
AS DOLn men are lut0iSStCO III tiiS
same deal 1t Is more than likely there
will be some interesting developments
when the two meet in Mexico.
In the meantime friends of the two
men are making quiet little hand
book on the result as to which of the
travellers will be the first to arrive at
the scene of action.
Harry d. Brown, the electric sign
man OF Atlantic City. N. j., who is the
master mechanic with the Woodill-
Hulse Electric company of this city, de-
clared yesterday that within six months
there would be number of the most
unique electric automotic Illuminated
signs in Los Angeles than can be found
in any other city in this country.
Mr.. Brown ought to know. as he has
been building these same sort of signs
all over the country for the past dozen
years.
Do you notice the air of general
hustle apparent all along Broadway
these sunny afternoons? Everybody
worth a nickel is on the street. and
everybody is seemingly trying his or
her best to find the right place to spend
the aforementioned nickel.
Cheer up-This is great town.