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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
WESTERN TERRITORY
ANNEX.D TO CITY

In one hour and fifteen minutes the
city council yesterday morning can
vassed the $685. votes cast in the an
nexation election lest Tuesday
This enables the primary election to
be held November 10 as planned, for
it will give City Attorney Hewitt time
to send the certificate of election on
the "Owl" tonight to Sacramento. The
certificate should be filed with the
secretary of state this afternoon and
the primary election ordinance and it's
publication will be accomplished in
time to hold the election on Nov. 10.
In the outside district, three votes
for annexation were added and one
against was subtracted. Outside of
this there was no change in the re-
suits for the city. The official count
for the city and the outside district
is: For G2S2; against, 41S.
Despite the earnest request of presi-
dent Pease, City Attorney Hewitt and
City Clerk Lelande that they start the
counting of votes at 10 o'clock yester-
day morning and hurry it through, the
members of the city council were as
usual half an hour late.
torney Hewitt, ''if these votes are not
counted by o'clock, you will be up
against it on holding your primary
election November 10.'
The admonition seemed to work all
right with the result that the city
council yesterday broke a record.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
Municipal. Affairs
VOTERS MUST PASS
ON CITY HALL SALE
ORDINANCE PUTS DECISION UP
TO PEOPLE IN DECEMBER
City Council Votes for TwofoId Pur-
pose In the Action Taken
at the Meeting Yes
terday

Ordinances providing for the sale of
the city hall and the central police
station building were passed by the
city council yesterday, but, instead of
taking the usual course of legislation
and becoming laws, these ordinances
will be placed on the ballot at the next
general election in December for a
referendum vote of the people.
This action has a twofold purpose.
The council seems to be really anxious
to know whether the people want the
city hall site and building sold and
the money used to construct modern
office building that will hold all the
city offices, and an amendment to the
charter recently approved by the peo-
pie may require 1t.
The second purpose is to avoid pos
sible conflict with the charter. The
charter amendment is not clear and
it is the intention to have the supreme
court interpret the law by manda-
mus suit, but City Attorney Hewitt
advised the council against taking any
steps without the sanction of the
voters.
The charter amendment that is sup
posed to cover the case prohibits the
council from disposing of city prop
erty without the consent of two
thirds vote of the people. The amend
ment was framed for the purpose of
preserving harbor frontage, the river
bed and similar property and prevent
a repetition of the attempt Of the
"river bed council" but is worded in
such a way that 1t may include all
real property owned by the city, even
an engine house lot.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
AROUND TOWN
Seeks Sunshine for Vacation

Karl H. Van Wiegand, night man
ager of the Associated Press in San
Francisco, is a guest at the Alexandria
hotel. He is in Los Angeles on his
vacation.
Will Show Color Prints
A free exhibition of Japanese color
prints will be given at the studio of
Maude Eighmey McVicker during No
vember The doors of the studio, which
is at Townsend avenue, Eagle Rock,
will be open every morning at 10
o'clock
Anti=ViVisec ectionists to Meet
The regular monthly meeting, of the
California Anti Vivisection society will
be held Friday. October 29, at p. m.,
In the committee room of the chamber
of commerce. All interested in the
cause are cordially invited. Among the
speakers will be Bruce Gordon Kings
ley and George Wharton James.
viii Discuss Esperanto
The Esperanto society has received
definite informa tion that the next world
congress of Esperantists will be held
in this country next summer at the
city of Washington. The last of the
present series of talks on Esperanto
arranged for by the society will be
given this evening at it's rooms in the
Blanchard building and will be open
to the public. A class for those be-
ginning the study of Esperanto will
be formed Wednesday evening. Glasses
for advanced students meet Saturday
evenings.
Three Robberles Reported
Burglars we're more then usually ac-
tive Monday night and as a result
several cases Were reported to the
detectives yesterday. A watch a neck
chain and $11 and some small articles
of jewelry were stolen from the home
of w. ]. Pillig. 1923 East Twenty-ninth
street The home of Mrs. N. e. Heart,
S25 East Twenty-ffth street, was en-
tered and two watches and 50 were
taken. ]. c. Donate, 841 Alpine street,
reported his store was entered by
means of a pass key to the rear door
and So worth of pennies were stolen.
Will Meet for Tag Day
All members of committees of local
patriotic organizations CONNECTED with
the tag day movement, instituted to
raise funds for the building Of a
new G.. A. r. memorial hall, are
requested to meet at 1861 South
Spring street at o'clock this morning
to tie tags and complete plans for the
days campaign Mrs. j. A Melchor,
chairman of the central committee in
charge OF the work, reported yesterday
that members of all the patriotic Or
ganizations of the city are taking a
vigorous part in the enterprise, and it
is predicted that vast sum will be
secured for the building of the new
hall The tags will be sold for 10 cents
apiece.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
COUNCIL SHIFTS AGAIN
GUARDIANSHIP OF CASH
No Agreement Reached on Committee
for Aqueduct Sinking Fund by
City Solons

The matter of appointing a committee
to handle the city's bond sinking funds
and reinvest them in the city's securi-
ties was brought to the attention of the
council by City Attorney Hewitt yes
terday.
Mr.. Hewitt said that under a new,
state law that gave cities the right to
invest its sinking funds in it's own Sc
curities $16S,000 of the sinking fund for
the Owens river bonds had already been
reinvested in these bonds and at the
end of the year there would be about
81 ZOO, 900 more ready for investment.
He suggested that it would be a good
plan to have a committee appointed to
see to this matter
Dromgold wanted it handled by the
finance committee and Wallace wanted
a. committee of a leading banker, the
city attorney and the mayor or the
chairman of the finance committee to
do the work AS no agreement could
be reached the matter was laid over
until next week.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
DEMAND
WAGE DEFINITION
C. N. HUGHES DECLARES CASH
COULD BE SAVED TO CITY
Council Committee Appointed to Con-
fer with City Attorney as to
Legality of Aqueduct
Wage Scale

C. N. Hughes, representative of the
International Machinists' association,
tried to induce the council yesterday
to appoint a committee to investigate
conditions on the aqueduct. He de-
clared that he was convinced there
were many cases of mismanagement
that should be righted, and that would
save the city money if prompt action
was taken.
Mr.. Hughes was especially anxious
that the city attorney interpret a reso-
luton passed by the board of public
Works some time ago fixing a wage
scale for skilled employees on the
aqueduct. The resolution reads that
certain classifications of labor, among
them machinists, "shall receive" such
and such amounts day.
Mr.. Hughes said that the machinists
were not receiving the sums fixed in
this wage scale. The board of public
works has contended that the sums
named in the resolution are maximum
amounts to be paid and that it was
not intended to represent a fiat scale
for all employees in the classification.
A committee of the council was ap-
pointed to confer with the city at
torney and get his oponion as to the
legal meaning of the resolution.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
COUNCIL ASKED FOR MORE
POLICE BY COMMISSION

The police commission yesterday
asked the city council to grant twenty
five more policemen be added to the
rolls. The matter was referred to the
finance committee, and 1t is probable
that more police will be given, but it
is not likely the number will be twenty
five.
Chief Dishman declares the police
force is stretched to the breaking point
and all the elasticity has been taken
from it. He had to send several men
to San Pedro when that city was an
nexed and twelve miles of territory has
been added to Los Angeles by the an
nexation of the Arlington Heights and
Colegrove districts. The chief believes
he should have at least one man in the
new territory for each square mile.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
Our Smartly Tailored $35 Suits
. Coulter Dry Goods Co..

the case, the council was through in
about two hours.
The certificate of annexation was
sent away on the Owl last night and
will be on file in the office of the secre-
tary of state at noon today. Arrange
ments have been made for a telegram
to be sent City Clerk Lelande as soon
as the formallty of filing is completed,
and the council will then get together
and pass the ordinance calling the pri-
mary election.
Because the ballots were so promptly
disposed of it will not be necessary to
change the date of the primary cleo
tion, as had been feared, but it will be
held November TO- as originally
planned.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
Astor divorce Not confirmed

NEW YORK, Oct 26.-Reports that
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has brought
suit for a legal separation from her
husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor,
were neither denied nor affirmed today
by C. H. Young, who is said to have
been appointed a referee in the caseS
Mrs. Astor was Miss Ava Willing,
daughter of Edward s. Willing of Phil
adelphia. She was married to Colonel
Astor in 1891. The couple have two
children, William Vincent Astor, aged
II, and Ava Alice Muriel Astor, aged z.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
CITY PROSECUTOR EDDIE
GIVEN RAISE IN SALARY

BY amendments to the salary ordi-
nance of the city attorneys depart
ment, the council yesterday increased
the salary of Guy Eddie, city prose-
cutor from 5000 a month to 1920. This
puts Mr.. Eddie on the same basis with
Assistant City Attorney Shenk and
Chief Deputy Wilson, who each receive
1920 a month.
The salary of S. B. Robinson, one
of Mr. Hewitt's deputies who assists
w. b. Mathews in the legal work of
the aqueduct and who is paid with
aqueduct funds, was also increased
from $500 to 1920 a month.
A new position was created provid-
ing for a deputy at San Pedro to take
care of the prosecution of city cases
at the harbor This deputy will receive
only $1OO a month, but he will not be
expected to devote ALL his time to the
work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
COUNCIL COUNTS BALLOTS
OF ANNEXATION ELECTION

With a tenacity It has never dis
played before the council stuck to bus
iness yesterday, and before noon all the
ballots cast at the annexation election
last Tuesday had been counted. In
stead of requiring twenty-four hours,
as City Attorney Hewitt. from his
knowledge of the way the council con-
ducts business, had supposed would be
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27

Lose a good-pay tenant. or boarder7 Let
a want ad help you to take 1t like philoso-
nher.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27

Membership in the Los Angeles Realty Board
Is virtual guarantee Of reliability. Provision
is made for arbitration Of any differences be-
tween members and their clients Accurate In
formation on realty matters is obtainable from
them. Valuations by a competent committee.
Directory of members free at the office OF
Herbert Burdett. secretary, 525 Security bldg.
Phone Broadway 1886
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27

The Herald, like every other newspaper. Is
nisrepresented at tim,s, particularly In cases
involving hotels, theaters etc, The public will
please take notice that every representative of
this paper is equippeds with the proper creden-
hals. and particularly equipped with
money with which to pay his bills.
THE HERALD
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
THE CITY

Strangers are invited to visit the exhibits OF
California products at the Chamber OF Com
merce building, on Broadway. between First
and Second streets, where free information VIII
be given on all subjects pertaining to this Sec
ffo6a
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27

The Legal Aid society. at 232 N. Main. is
charitable organization maintained for the
purpose Of aiding in legal matters those unable
TO employ counsel The society needs financial
assistance and seeks information regarding
worthy cases. Phone Home F5203; Main 1865.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
Military Historian Dies

PARIS, Oct. 26.-Col. Theodore A.
Dodge, the military historian of New
York and Paris, died today at YER
sailles. He was born at Pittsheld,
Mass, in 1872.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27

The Herald will pay $40 in cash to any one
furnishing evidence that will lead to the arrest
and conviction of any person caught stealing
copies OF The Herald from the premises OF our
patrons.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
LATEST News.
BY WIRE.
Flower Expert Dead.

Flower Expert Dead.
San Francisco. Ca1.-Edward Gill,
aged sixty-nine, one of the foremost
botanical experts of the Pacific Coast,
died at West Berkeley. Gill was a
native of New Jersey, and was a we'll
known figure at Eastern flower shows.
His hobby was roses.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
SMALLER AMERICAN FAMILIES.
Average in 1900 Was SO, While in
1000 1t Was 4.6.

Washington, D. C.-The size of the
average family in the United States
nas decreased from SIS persons in
1880, the date of the first census TAX
en- in this country, to as in the same
area in 1900, according to a volume
now being prepared by the Census
Bureau.
OF especial interest from a socio.
Iogical point of view are those statis-
1cs in the book which deal with fam
lily life. In 1890 families composed
IL no more than three persons repre-
sented but one-fourth of the entire
number of families, while in 1900
families of similar size made up neal
~ forty per cent. of all families.
Families composed of six or more
persons represented in 1890 more
than one-half, but in 1900 scarcely
more than one-fourth of the families
enumerated.
On the basis of the proportion
shown in 1870 there would have been
IN continental United States in 1900
S~9,500,000 children, whereas there
were less than "a, 900, 600.
In 1890 the Smiths led all the rest.
there being 33,245 of this ubiquitous
family in the country, while other
families followed In the sequence CIV
en-: Brown, Davis, Jones, johnson.
Clark, Williams, Miller and Wilson.
These nine names represented about
four per cent. of the total white popu-
lation of 1890.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
new JERSEY STATE NEWS
Drowned on River Visit.

Two persons were drowned in the
d e a Weehawken. They
were William Bunch, twenty-nine
years old, captain of the canal boat
Thomas McMullen, and Lenoa Good
sell, twenty-four years old. With
them AT the time was Mary Blake.
twenty-five years old, but she man.
aged to reach shore. Some 800 canal
boats are tied up awaiting the open
ing of the canal just south of the Val.
volen Oil Works, below Shadyside.
Bunch and the two women were MEM
bers of the colony of boat people liv-
ing on the boats. Bunch and the two
women started in a small boat to go
down to the S~usquehanna coal docks
to visit on a barge which had arrived
there in the day. Mrs. Goodsell's two
children, girls four and six years old,
were to have gone in the boat, but
they decided to walk along the river
road. On the way down a river boat
passed up. The swell from her pad
dies upset the small boat and threw
the three into the water. Miss Blake
managed to reach the shore, but the
others disappeared.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02

New York City.-In an automo-
bile bedecked with American flags,
Mayor Mcclellan left the city hall,
and, proceeding rapidly to Fifty-ninth
street and Second avenue, swung onto
the new greensboro bridge toward
Long Island City.
AS the Mayors car passed east of
the four towers a flag was raised
atop 1t, and when hereached the other
side the structure was declared open
to foot and wagon traffic.
The opening of the bridge, how
ever, was informal, the set exercises
being reserved for June II, when the
people of Queens will hold a carnival
of sports and entertainments.
Mayor Mcclellan was accompanied
across the bridge by members of his
Office staff, Bridge Commissioner
Stevenson and Chief Engineer Kings
ley Martin, of the Bridge Depart
ment; Consulting Engineer Collin M.
Ingersoll and Comptroller Metz.
Thousands turned out at the Long
Island side to greet the Mayor and
other city officials, and as soon as the
structure was opened tramped across
to Manhattan and back again.
All Long Island City was decorated
in honor of the event. Flags flew
from private residences, stores and
the borough offices. Bands were sta
toned at the Long Island City ap-
proach, and babe a noisy welcome
as Mayor Mcclellan and his party
reached Queens.
On the lower floor there is a road
way ifty-six feet wide, between two
surface railroad tracks and the
trusses, and one on each side of the
roadway. Outside are two more sur
face railway tracks.
The surface lines and elevated
each have a capacity of 10000 per-
sons per hour in direction. The
bridge will furnish direct and con-
venient route for vehicular traffic
from Manhattan to points on Long
Island, diverting traffic from the East
Thirty-fourth and East Ninety-second
street ferries to the new structure.
The scale of tolls that prevails on the
Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges
will be charged on the Greensboro
bridge.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
The Sweetest Incense.

How 1 wish I had built an altar
when we started our married Efei"
a father said to his pastor recently.
DR.. Norman Mcleod tells of n
who said the same thing. q shall
never forget the impression made
upon me during the first year of my
ministry by a mechanic whom l had
visited, and on whom l urged the
paramount duty of family prayers.
One day he entered my study, and
burst into tears as he said, You re-
member my girl, sir? She was my
only child. She died suddenly this
morning. She has gone, l hope, to
God; but if so she can tell Him what
now breaks my heart-that she never
heard a prayer in her fathers house
or from her fathers lips. oh, that
she were with me but for n day
morei'
There is no fragrance that sweet
ems a whole house like the incense OF
prayer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
Sent to Leper's Island.
BY CABLE.
Petrosino's Body Shipped.

PetrOsino's Body Shipped.
Palermo, Italy.-The remains OF
Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino, of the
New York City Police Department.
who was assassinated here on the
night of March IL, were placed on
board the Cunard line steamer Slavs
onia, which sailed for New York City
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
London.-There was a meeting al
the Mansion House to plan a national
theatre as a Shakespeare memorial.
The committee in charge has decided
that $4,000, 900 is necessary to this
end. The Lord Mayor announced an
anonymous gift of $4,000.
American Company Wins.
London.-The United States Shoe
Machinery Company, of Boston,
Mass, has won it's long fight to pre-
vent the Canadian shoe manufacture
ers from using the American COM
pany's machines in con~trayention OF
the terms of leases.
King of Italy's Promises.
Rome, Italy.-The King opened the
new Parliament and announced many
sociological, educational and military
reforms. The Parliament received
coldly the statement that Italy would
continue to cultivate her alliances and
friendships.
She Poisoned 800 Persons.
London.-A dispatch to the Daily
Mail from st. Petersburg says that a
woman named Popova has been ar
rested at Samara, charged with hav-
ing poisoned at least 900 persons
in the last thirty years. She made a
business of Kidding wives of their
husbands for a small fee.
Ecuador Cancels Contracts.
Guayaquil, Ecuador.-The Govern
ment of Ecuador has protested
against the determination of the Brit
ish and Chilean steamship companies
running vessels between Valparaiso
and Panama not to call at Guayaquil,
and has Cancelled the existing con-
tracts with both companies.
Duke to Tour Chile.
Santiago, Chile.-The Duke OF
Richmond and General Baden-Powell
have arrived here. They expect to
make a tour through the country.
German Railway Extensions.
Berlin, Germany.-The Prussian
Government has published a bill pro-
viding for $56,500,0 900 to be used IN
the construction of secondary railway.
double-tracking the present lines, n
other railway improvements.
Abruzzi Off For India.
MarseilIes, France.-The Duke OF
the Abruzzi left here on the steamer
Oceania for Bombay, whence he VIII
proceed to the Himalaya Mountains.
He Is accompanied by an aid, Mar
quis Negretto-Sella. and a secretary,
Signor FilIfpi.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
TROLLEY CARS MEET
IN A FATAL CRASH
Three Persons Killed and Many
Passengers Hurt.
MoToRMEN MISTAKE ORDERS

Collision Occurs ON a Curve Between
Pfttsburg and Butler, Near Bry-
ant Station, Pa.-Neither Motor
man Saw the Other Car.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Three persons were
killed, two fatally hurt and fifteen
others sustained injuries that necessi-
tated their removal to their homes,
In a head-on collision between two
electric cars on the Pittsburg and
Butler Street Railway, near Bryant
Station.
The dead:
II. j. Cross, thirty-f1ve, of Mars. Pa.
conductor of the southbound car, died
OF internal injuries while being re-
moved to a hospital.
Alfred w. Snyder, twenty-seven.
purchasing agent of the Pittsburg
and Butler Street Railways Company.
MS home being at New Haven, Conn.
Albert Heindman, forty, of this
city, a r collector on the northbound
car.
Fatally injured:
Lon Kelley, motorman of the
southbound car, right leg fractured
and internal injuries.
j. w. Meyers, Bellevue, Pa, a pas
senger, right leg broken, injured in
ternally.
Snyder and Heindman were stand
ing with the motorman of the north
car when the accident oc-
CURED, and it is remarkable that
Kelley was not killed outright.
The accident is said to have been
caused by a mistake in orders given
the southbound car. This car, which
was known as a limited, had been
aeld up for an hour at a grade cross
ing at Mars, Pa, until the tracks
tnere had been cleared of wreckage
caused by a freight car on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad leaving the
tracks.
When the line was clear the a
was ordered to go On through to this
city. The road is single-tracked, and
the northbound car, running on the
oest schedule it could make, crashed
into the oncoming limited at a curve
near Bryant Station, throwing the
trucks of both cars off the rails.
Owing to the curve in the road
neither motorman knew of the D
proach OF the other car until the col
lision was inevitable; both men tried
10 lessen the shock by applying the
alrbrakes and remaining bravely at
heir posts.
Doctors were hurried to the scene
Oh the wreck, and the dead and seri-
0usly injured were removed to a hos
pital in Butler, Pa. All the passen-
gers of both cars were shaken up.
most OF them receiving cuts and
bruises. but only fifteen needed med
ical attention and assistance in reach
ing their homes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
Adionrns TO Honor Dead.

Unprecedented was the action OF
both houses of the New Jersey Legis,
lature in adjourning for the death Of
two members, a Senator and an AS.
semblyman, The desks of Senator
William ]. Harrison, of Lakewood,
and Assemblyman Harry B. Moon, OF
Phillipsburg, were draped in mourn.
ing. Mr.. Moon had attended only a
few sessions because OF his frail
health. At the election last fall the
voters of Warren County realized
that young Mr.. Moon would not live
through the session, as he was suffer
ing from an incurable disease of the
lungs, yet they honored him by elect
ing him by a great majority.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-02
4 PRAYER.

Our Heavenly Father and truese
Friend, who hast so loved and saved
us, the thought of Whom is sweet and
always growing sweeter, come and
dwell in our hearts; then Thou wilt
keep watch on our lips, u deeds,
and we shall not need to be anxious
either for our souls or our bodies.
Give us charity, sweetest of al gifts,
which knows no enemy. Give us In
our hearts pure love, born of Thy love
to us, that we may love others as
Thou lowest. Loving Father of Jesus
Christ, from Whom loweth all love,
let our hearts, frozen in sin, cold to
Thee and cold to others, be warmed
by this divine fire. So help and bless
us through Christ, Thy Son.