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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
ENJOYABLE Mountain Trip

Dear Aunt Laurie:
would start out early in the morn
ing for. a trip to the mountains.
could play in the stream or go fishing.
I could climb the mountain and go
running and could gather ferns.
Some morning we could start out to
hunt deer. If we shot any we would.
of course, divide them among us, and
we could go up to an old cave, go in
it and have lots of fun. If we shot
any bear we would save the skin to
make a rug.
Some morning about o'clock we
would start out to go fishing for trout
in a little stream about five miles up
the canyon. LAWRENCE MOORE.
Sawtelle school, sixth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Riding by Moonlight

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My pleasure be 5ins with the spring.
For it is then that I can enjoy the
picnics.
When spring began we children de-
cided to have a picnic at Laurel can
yon. We appointed the time week
ahead, and all through the week there
was a great stir about the house fixing
dainties, for the picnic.
AS Saturday was the day appointed
for the picnic there was a great look
ing forward to that day 1t seemed as
if Saturday would never come, But at
last it arrived, and the morning was 81
clear and the sun so bright that the
children could not have had bet
ter day.
About 7 o'clock we started for the
canyon. We rode in hay wagon.
The wild flowers looked so pretty that
the children wanted to get out and pick
(Continued on Page Sevenl
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Spring Favorite Season
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I am very glad, indeed. when school
closes, because 1 do love the spring so
much. Everything is green and all the
flowers are in bloom. We get party
together and go and have picnics and
have a very nice time wading in the
streams and lying under the trees on
the grass.
Sometimes we go to the woods and
gather all kinds of wild flowers, and
have very nice times climbing the large
trees.
The birds are all back from the
south, and I go out and watch the
pretty little butterflies.
LEE OTA GREENE.
Del Rosa grammar school, grade 4;
age II years.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Enjoys Automobile Ride

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I am in the fifth grade of the gram
mar school Our teachers name is Miss
Hughes. She is very nice.
I live in La Habra.
Papa has an automobile, and one day
my brothers and 1 went to Riverside,
which is about sixty miles from here.
We have new house, and we move
in November sometime, do not know
when. MILDRED LANDRETH.
La Habra, r. F. D. No. 8, box 80.
You wrote a very nice letter, Mil
dred. but forgot to use only one side of
the paper Cannot you trv again in
one of the contests?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09

there is not enough water in them for
us to wade in. ] also take great pleas
ure in going to the poppy fields. l love
the springtime because it brings so
many beautiful flowers, and also be-
cause L can go in bathing in the ocean,
for 1 do enjoy going bathing and play
ing on the sand.
Mother says the springtime is much
nicer back east than it is out here, be-
cause of the change from the long cold
winter, but l think it is nice out here.
HELEN MARIE BURGE,
Age 8: grade B3. Washington school,
Ocean Park.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Baseball Favorite Game
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
One of my main pleasures is baseball,
and, of course. going to the beach.
think baseball is an excellent game and
1 can't get tired of it, nor can any boy
who once starts to play. I like foot
ball, but it doesn't come in the spring
and must be left out. There must be
fine points to the game or so many
Americans wouldn't enjoy it. Any
person that lives in the United States
is not a full blooded American unless
he is a baseball-g oer.
Baseball is usually referred to as
''the great American game"
am making catalogue in which
paste my writings, entitled Letters to
Aunt Laurie and Herald Junior, Writ
ten by Frank Tom Howell
FRANK TOM HOWELL.
ass Third street; Boyd street school,
grade AS,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Wading Great Fun

Dear Aunt Laurie:
One day last spring Mr. Pruden's
family and ours went down to the
beach. We took our lunch and stayed
all day. When we got there we took
our shoes and stocking off and went
wading. There were three of us.
We were making sand houses when
big breaker caught us and got us all
wet.
This was on Saturday. Mr.. Pruden's
family and I stayed all night.
The next morning we got up and
got our breakfast, and then went wad-
ing again. We went home about IL
o'clock Grace and I went on ahead
of the others We caught our car be-
fore they did, and we had lots of fun.
RENA ERMEL.
SawtelIe public school, sixth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Enjoys Flying Kites

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I find great pleasure in flying kites,
playing marbles and lots of other
games.
We go to the beaches. and one day l
walked to Signal hill. L picked wild
flowers and then we ate our lunch.
Then we ate some fruit we found on
trees
| said, LET us go home and walk
down to the beach," They all agreed
and we went in bathing and had lots
of fun. Your nephew,
PAUL FAULSTICH.
725' Orange avenue. Long Beach; car
roll Park school, grade 3; age 8 years.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Spring Mountain Trip

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Every spring we go to the mountains.
We go as far, as Porterville on the
train. From there we had to get lot
of pack mules and riding mules that
are used to the trail
After about one weeks travelling we
reached a large meadow and a river,
where you could dip the fish out with
sacks if it was not too deep.
big stump of a tree was lying on
the trail, but there was room for the
mules to walk around it. The mule tina
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
Bathing Favorite Sport

Dear Aunt Laurie:
think all children should love
springtime l enjoy going to the can
yon for a picnic and climbing up the
hills and picking wild flowers. The
wild flowers are the prettiest in the
springtime. 1 went a short time ago to
the Santa Monica canyon and the
brooks were so wide that we could
hardly get across, but in the summer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
LOS ANGELES SUNDAY HERALD-JUNIoR SECTION

had the flour on it's back tried to jump
over the stump, and so bumped against
the bank and went stumbling down the
hill and broke it's neck. The men had
to go down and carry the flour up the
hill and pack it on another mule.
CHARLES IRWIN.
Sawtelle city school, 9Th grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
A Pleasant Vacation

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 find pleasure in spring because we
have a two weeks vacation, and 1t is
kite and marble time. L do not have
, 1909-11-10

Of which shone with a blurred light through
the ran, the former low down within the
bow, the latter above it.
From the nature of the case lunar rain
bows are not so numerous as solar ones, and
moreover nearly all the possible spectators
are generally ab0d and asleep when they
are formed, and so know nothing about them.
Consequently there are very many people
who hare never seen a lunar ralnboW, and
many who have never even heard that there
is such q thing. For such the present no.
tice may have some interest.
The very fine fall of rain for August, for
which, By the way, we were indebted to pass
ing cyclones, has made a great impression
on the figures for the year aud has at the
some time been Of very great value to Us there
can be no doubt but short supp les at other
times have made it Of less Importance than
would at first sight appear. There are q few
estates no doubl that have had ram enough,
but for the majority we believe a few good
showers would now be welcome.
According TO Mr.. Jean Petersen's totals,
forwarded last Friday, the fall in Fraderik-
sted was for October 40.3 lines, and for the
year 1913 lines. Here in ChrisIansted the
totals according to our editors measurements
have been, for October 5O4 ines and for the
wear to 3lst Oct. 3633 lines. AS the loog
period 81 years. averages are for Oct. 034
aud for the year 37G8 lines, it would appear
that we have already had nearly rs much
rain as we cau look for during the whole
Year stul it would be a misfortune If the
weather should continue dry for the remain
ing few weeks OF the year. Fortuna ely this
is not likely to be the case.
, 1909-11-10
SOME RELATIVES OF THE yERyAIN.
Coulluued from Aois No. 89)

Ii IL .nynrisino now many Of them there
are Baron lTgpars in his est. Crooks
FIorao enuuoIa5 en- is species Quot including
o few cn,1vatad ones Gri5ebaeh in his
aFIora Of fine British West Indies" describes
~ sneaias incDnlod in IS genera. In a
"Proctic3l IJ,ra" bv Oliver r. Willis. it is
statad tbat tie whole Natural Order Ter6e-
9uce,e has 50 GENERA ANA 700 species
me order b4jonus almost exclnsivelv TO
tbe warm parts OF he earth. and even the
oorden yerb4na4 pIonted 50 |abundantIy IN
tba State. md in Enron4 have been marc
dnca5 from elsewhere.
IT, this a,tlcla il win he some Of the Santa
C,,1 ral,tiva. of tLa varvain that will ia
doalt with Sb,I we haain with fin *esnioaon-
h.,,,o hn.b2 wnat yo, avcJaim fba oig.on-
Mann. h,.L +, lor,a beadga nIont g~r,w,93 NJ,
,.aor ,f+ar ,o.r . roIot;ya iiof ,y.e@l. of s,,.u
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. 1901 Inn,.yhInl wall il would
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, 1909-11-10

Daristlan8ted, %. Eroi1,

DaPist}an8ted, "a. &roI8,
Wednesday, 10th November, 1909.
The S. S. horono on her way to New York
is due at Frederiksted at 6 O'clock on Fri
day morning the 18th inst.
Those Of our Bassin readers who may, like
our editor, have been up and looking cut of a
western window at about a quarter to two
on Saturday morning will have seen an I'M
usual sight. The half moon had shortly
risen and was shining on IA light shower
which had just passed over the town and
was retreating westward. The result was
a very fine lunar rainbow. The arch Of pale
light was high and complete, and the pic
ture was made more interesting by the pre-
cunca of the nlanats ALnrs and SnInLn. hoLL
, 1909-11-10
Entlodigelse.

GENDER s. October 1909 err Sognepra8t
- Christiansted NYGAARD efter Aus6g
ming afskediget Made og med Pension fra
30 November l % at regne.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
ONE WHITNEY TALE
IS PROVED UNTRUE

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 22-The
report that Harry Whitney, the sports
man, has written a letter TO his step
mother. Mrs. Stephen Whitney, OF this
city, in which he stated that Cook had
discovered the North Pole Is untrue,
according to a statement made by Mrs.
Whitney today. But two communica-
lions have been received from Whitney
since he left civilization. The first was
cable 10 his b-other-in-law. A. Bur
dett Hughes, OF this city, in which
neither Cooks nor Pearys maine was
mentioned The last was a letter, dated
March IS, which Mrs Whitney received
about three weeks ago, while at her
summer home in North Harbor, Ne
on Saturday, the 18th. Mrs. Whitney
returned to the city and disclosed the
contents OF the letter. In il Whitney
spoke briefly Of the meeting with Cook
and stated that the explorer had left
some instruments and records. but he
made no reference to a discovery of the
Pole 1t is believed, however, that his
reason for not mentioning this was due
10 the fact that Cook had asked him 10
keep the matter 4 secret
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
RUSSIA TO LOOK FOR
NORTHWEST PASSAGE

ST PETERSBURG, Sept. 22-With
the rest of tho worlds eyes on the
Arctic as locality for sporting or sci
enthc investigation, the Russian gov
eminent is today perfecting plans to
look into its possibilities from a COM
lercial and military standpoint What
ne Cars investigators propose to ind
in short, is a practical ''Northwest. Pas
sage"
Three-quarters OF q million dollars
is 70 be spent on an expedition to start
work next sprirE aud commissioned 70
determine whether it is possible TO es-
tablish regular sailings through the
Kara straits, around Cape Cheliuskfn
the northernmost point of Asia. out
through Behring straits and down the
Pacific coast TO the Lena river.
'Ehe Northwest Passage is the par
ticular demand by Russia as a sborte,
sea route from the White and Baltic
seas to VladivOstok and other far
Eastern points. The present route is nv
way Of the Mediterranean, the Red sea.
the Indian ocean, the China and Japan
seas, and the Pacific. It is unprohta bic
for CONNER cial purposes and practically
impossible for warships as the late Ad-
miraI Rojestvensky learned TO his sor-
row.
II the scientists report favorably, an
ice-brea Ier service viii be established
and regular sea traffic opened. Steam
ships already run during the summer
months to the Yenisei estuary, but not
within $50 miles OF Cape Cheliuskin.
which is the coolest continental winter
ing place IN the world. being only $50
miles from the North Pole.
The route is not entirely untried by
explorers, Dr.. NOrdenskiold having been
the first navigator TO take a ship all the
way along the Siberian coast TO Behring
straits and DR.. hansen having forced
the Fran along the same course before
he entered the polar sea for his mem
Orable journey. But no idea Of using
the route commercially has ever before
been thought or
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DOROTHY VERNON

one thing that YOU observe I'm the
early pages Of this novel rs a reference
% the "magnifying things that Dor
othy speaks of 10 Francois
II would he nteresting 70 know how
many thousand people suffered from
early blindness before BaCOns study OF
light and refraCtion. What OF the math-
eInatical examination of tie curved and
warped surfaces How much learning as
10 focal distances positive and mega
tive euuations and the determination
of degrees of curvature necessary TO a
learned examination Of irregularities OF
yisiOu2
And how much is necessary to the
trained Optician Of today In acQuaint-
ing himself with the normal and path
illogical anatomy Of the eye and the
deep-seated Cranial organs upon which
the sight depends
Think Il over and come and see us Do
n now our methods are the latest
and most scientific. DANTIIC e. kET-
CHUM. Washington's Rest opticians
523 10th ST. Y W lust Below +. Ask
Your physician ''It vs.
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ARCTIC EXPLORERS
PLAY WAITING GAME
Cook and Peary Are Anxious
To Hear Rival
Reports.
COMMANDER is ON
WAY TO PORTLAND
Will Spend Several DAYS With His
Family on Eagle Island
Estate.
Continued from First Page)

covery. because the letter would get 10
civilization two months before I could.
Il did not see any remains of other
expeditions, because 7 went far 10 the
vest of the Of the routes OF any pre-
vtOus ones.
Ny plans for the future are to re-
main right here and have a good time.
/ am through with exploration and
viii never seek the South Pole. AS
have said before, 7 Will leave that for
scott and ShackletOn.
nave received a number of offers
Tor lectures and a great number Of mes
sages, hut these I Will not discuss"
Dr. Ceok viii be the guest of honor
az a banquet By the Arctic Club OF
America tonight.
Commander Peary left Sydney. Nova
Scotia, at Z O'Clock this morning for
PoTtiand, from which port he will go
70 his home at Eagle Island. Me He
owns the whole island 2 nd will, there
fore, be free from the rest OF the world
with his family for a dav or two. While
at Eagle Island he viii prepare the
statement Of his side OF the controversy
What ] have to say viii be said
soon" he declared.
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TOWNS IN MAINE
TO GREET PEARY

PORTLAND, Ne, Sept. I'm spite
of the statement made by Commander
Peary that he would decline all invita-
tions for receptions and similar demon
STATIONS until the controversy with Dr.
Cook is settled. preparations for his re-
ception here are going on without inter
rupton.
Bangor mas completed elaborate plans
for a reception during his brief stop
there tomorrow. He viii arrive at l;l5 p
m. and will be given luncheon
loving cup will be presented.
Peary will arrive in Portland carry
So,,, cou1panies of the national guard,
two bands ana an escort of citizens;
Former Mayor r. c. Reynolds: an old
schoolmate of Peary, Will PRESIDE al
banouet i'm the explorers honor, AT
v-bi~b A loving cup Will be presented
Governor Fernald Nill speak.
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BRITONS GOT POLE,
SAYS NEWSPAPER

LONDON. Sept. "A London after
noon paper is today hard at work on
the theory that the reason DR.. Cook and
Commander PeR.y announced their
claims 70 the North Pole discovery al
most simultaneously was that they
heard of the discovery Of the Pole by
Il British expedition and rushed back
to civilization 20 forestall the British
ers. The name Of the English expedi-
ton has not yet been disclosed by the
paper.
Reporters have been besieging the
ROYAL Geographical Society for ten days
TO get facts on which 20 base the pub
UcatiOu of this story, but so far they
have not felt warranted in sprl nging the
sensation"
The rumor IS generally considered
ridiculous, but the editors Of the paper
insist that they are on the right track
ard that the story may be expected TO
break mOmentarily.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
GERMANS AROUSED
BY KIEF MASSACRE
Anti-Hebrew Outrage Stirs
Feeling-RuSSian Authori-
ties Condemned.
CONTINUED from First Page)

cd were conveyed 10 the mortuaries and
many of the wounded were removed to
the hospitals
The Tageblatt has a message from
Kieff via the frontier. to the effect that
between twenty and thirty were killed
and hundreds wounded.
The Lokal Anzeiger has long story
from Podwoloczyska. the first Austrian
town this side OF the frontier In part
il says:
Great anti-Jewish riots have taken
place at Kieff and IN the suburb Of So
iomka, where the Jews 1--we in large
numbers. Armed bands OF reactionaries
marched TO the Ghetto. shouting mock
ingly Murray for the equality Of the
Jews"
Tho mobs demolished the homes and
shops of the Jewish residents and
plundered everything that they could
lay their hands on. In terror the Jews
fed to the cellars and attics OF their
homes, but In neither place were they
safe from the savage attacks. In de-
Tending themselves, many Jews were
shot and others were brutally beaten and
fatally wounded. The rioters spared
neither women nor children.
Ponce watch Atrocities.
The police watched the rioting with
no thought OF interfering and there is
no telling to what length Il might have
gone had not a deputatiOn Of leading
Jews waited on Governor General Ivan
of and demanded protection. Troops
were then sent TO Kief and they dis
persed the mob in short order and oc-
cupied the approaches TO the Ghetto TO
prevent further Outrages. None OF the
rioters have as yet been arrested, the
authorities evidently condoning the out
rage
The severest censorship IS being ex-
ercised to prevent the news Of the af-
fair from reaching foreign countries.
Many Jewish families fed from the city
and are now living abroad"
The Berliner Zeitung prints sub5tan-
TALLY the same story as the Anzeiger.
Large numbers were killed" accord
ing 20 the E'rankfurter Zeltung, Of
Frsnkfort-on-the-M Main
The Hartungische zeitung OF Koen-
igsburg, on the Russian frontier. de-
clsres that:
The streets were Uttered With the
PROSTATE victims: some dead, others
writing In agony"
fugitlves from hieff have crossed the
frontier and are telegraphing individ-
ual accounts OF the massacre to their
friends. and benevolent associations
here and in other cities are appealing
for financial aid.
Simon Hertzenstein. Kief merchant.
teiegraphed here that he has escaped
uninjured, but that the mob had de-
stroyed his store.
, Many lost their lives, and the whole
thing was too distressing for me 70
picture" Hertzenstein said.
David Aronsohn said the mob de-
stroyed his home and shop, stole every
thing that was movable and burned
what remained. Hundreds OF Jews were
rendered destitute oy the mob. he said.
Prominent Jews in Berlin strongly
condemn the Russian authorities for
suppressing the news OF the affair. &C
cusiug them Of cOnniving with the
rioters. A protest will be sent 70 the
Gar.
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AUSTRIAN PAPERS
CONFIRM STORIES

VIENNA. siept 22.-Leading Austrian
newspapers today print long and detail
ed accounts Of the three days massacre
IN Kien and fits suburbs
The Neue Freie Presse. the AIlgemeine
Zeitung, and the Zeit accounts show
that the massacre was second only "a
The kishinef outrage, while the Slovo-
polsky, Of Lemberg, Austria, calls il "a
repetition OF the kishinef Outrages." The
hospitals Of KEN are still filed with the
wounded according 10 the Neue Frele
Presse
Papers received from Budapest. in
GLIDING the Pesuhirlap Magkarorzsac
have the same confrpIatOry details
while tins Prague papers make the az
fair their leading story.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
The Vital Records.
Births

Alex Fl. and Mary a. Brandon, girl.
X. w. A and Elizabeth Horstkamp
girl
Eimon L. and Hattie r. Burton. girl.
Richard X. and Daphne =. Cochran
boy.
Fernando r. and Rose A. Sari. girl
George II. and Emma Barbour. girl
Joseph and Alice Thume. girl.
Charles and Edith Ditton, boy
Joseph and Mary I. Bradley, girl
John f. and Nellie +. Peak, girl.
Herbert r. and Annie 3. Gill, girl
Joseph G. jT-. and Bertha Harrison
Edwin and Lille NJ. Smith. girl.
William T. and Julia +. Fields. girl.
Silas c. and Minnie l. Duffy girl
Talvor and Margaret 7. pauisen, boy.
Charles IL and Gertrude NermiiliOn
boy.
Eli and Rosie Pollak. boy.
Giuseppe and Carmela Romano, boy.
James Il and Pansy Taylcr, boy
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Remarkable Picture Showing DIR. Cook
on Tug Waving Flag in Response to
Greeting From Passengers on
Steamer Grand Republic.
PEARYS STEAMER
LOOTED BY VANDALS

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Sept "a
George Borup, of the Peary expedi-
ton, is today talking on civilization
and its effects on morals
While he was still in the Arctic his
father sent him a number Of scientific
books. These were delivered to the
captain of the whaler Morning. who
deposited them in a cache at Cape
York, notifying thf neighbors of the
cache and asking them 70 tell Borup
when the Roosevelt returned.
Through all the months the books
lay there on the shore they were
guarded by the Eskimos and carefully
turned over TO BOrup. But the mo-
ment the Roosevelt touched at sgd
ney the ship was raided by civilized
people. who stole the books the saw
age Eskimos had refused to touch.
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FEARED HE WAS BURDEN.

NEWARK. \. j.. Sept 22-ExplaininE
that he was so old that he believed he
was becoming a burden Rynear s. Ker-
der, seventy years old, Of AstOr street,
ended his life today by harging TO the
door knob OF his room. He was found
BY his son, with whom he lived. Kcrdcr
had been respondent because ne was not
able 20 work. and he seemed 10 think
he was becoming a burden 10 his son.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
CATCH BOLD STORE ROBBER

PITTSBURG, Sept p. - Walking
boldly into the store Of J. c. Smith
here while the proprietor was count
ing the days receipts, a masked man
covered Smith and four employees with
revolver and demanded the money.
He got 800, and, threatening to shoot
any one who should sound the alarm
escaped. The robber was caught
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-22
VETERANS FATAL FALL.

HARRISBURG. sept 2-Frederick A
Wagner, one Of the oldest bakers In
this section Of the State. and for many
years a prominent business man, fell
from a window, and died from the eff
fects. Mr.. Wagner was an Austrian,
and had a medal of honor ror service
IN the empire's army.