Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-10
.BoostviIIe Chooses Officers

sarcasm, which was gOoQ ndCureuly
received. Those elected were as fol-
lows: President, F. S. Forbes; first
vice president DR.. Sherwin T.. Gibbons;
second vice president, E. P. Vernon;
secretary, Hugh w. Adams, Jr.; treas
urer, D. l.. Durand. They were sup
posed to be the town officers of Boost
Vile, the imaginary town in which the
| meeting was held. but the side re-
marks of the various speakers showed
plainly that Los Angeles was Boost
vile" under a more modern and APP
propriate name
Those chosen as overseers of the
poor, who will act as the executive
committee of the society for the COM
ing year, were: Judge Waldo M. York
Fred w. Fuller, Will D. Gould, N
Wheaton Dexter, H. A. Palmer, Dr.
p. v. K. Johnson. H. w. Chase, Mrs.
Ida S. Vewho. DR.. w. A. Lamb and
W. H. Frost
During the election of officers e L.
Hutchinson, the genial deputy sheriff
of the Los Angeles county hospital,
caused much laughter by his various
comments on the candidates and OPEN
ly expressed his opinion that the, nom-
nations were controlled by clique
which had packed the meeting for the
purpose of placing it's favorite and
most able grafters in office.
brought forth much debate, as a later
article provided an appropriation for
an automobile for the lucky road COM
missioner. George Whitcomb was de-
clared the winner, the tellers having
been promised the use of the automc-
bile by Mr.. Whitcomb in case he got
the office.
Mr. Hutchinson and Judge York
were chosen surveyors of lumber and
he, II oil ,rrI
Hutchinson declared he would not
serve with the judge, but an increase
in his salary changed his mind.
DR.. w. A. Lamb was chosen fence
billboard and moving picture viewer or
the woman's rights ticket. and F. e
Powell was chosen to watch DR.. Lamb
In Excited Debate
The appropriation for the school,
fund brought out the liveliest debate
of the evening. and more than ten per-
sons took part, each speaker being al
lowed a time limit of fifty-nine min
utes. The original appropriation OF
$354.73 was voted down and $4,000 APP
propriated for school funds.
Judge York used his influence and
succeeded in having $1,000 appropriated
for the purchase of an automobile for
the road commissioner.
r. w. Fuller stated that any man
who voted to substitute horse cars for
omnibuses ought to be elected to the
public works board and compelled to
serve out his term of office. The ar
ticle was passed over.
1t was voted not to construct Har-
vey eating houses on the car line to
Highland Park and Garvanza, but to
use the money and build a barn in
which to hold barn dances.
The proposition to build suitable
home for the New England society was
laid on the table and the money APP
propriated used to obtain from New
England a goodly supply of hard cider
cheese and sweet pickles.
The meeting was then adjourned for
one year, after which Mr. Hutchinson
was called on for a speech. In a seri-
Gus vein he pointed with pride to the
increasing power and influence of New
Englanders in the social. mercantile
and political welfare of Los Angeles
He referred to the New Englanders
as persons of rugged honesty and I'M
doubted integrity, who do things and
accomplish the purposes they strive
for. He said that, the coming OF New
Englanders and the infusion of New
England blood with that of Southern
California had already showed its ef-
feet. and that a continuance of their
ideas and works would make them one
of the strongest, most powerful and
respected bodies in California.