Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
TfLfGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Factory Demolished - The
J Reese Waterproof Manufacturing COM
I pany's plant at Fruitvale, Cal, was de
| stroyed by fire early Saturday. The
| damage is estimated at 100000.
Commits Suicide - Strapping
his hands behind him. Prof. Alva Will
lis. a teacher Of Charleston. Ill, com
mitted suicide Saturday by jumping
into a we'll I'll health is supposed to
have caused him to become temporari-
| ly deranged.
To Remove Flag-A joint note
signed by the four protecting powers
of Crete-Great Britain. Russia, Italy
and France-has been presented to the
Turkish government. 1t promises the
powers will see that the objectionable
flag hoisted by the Cretans is removed
permanently.
Afraid of "13"-Friday. the Is,
left its blight on the marriage license
Office in Chicago. Only fifty-seven IL
censes were issued. The average is
eighty. Americans, l have found, are
reluctant to obtain their licenses 10
wed on 'hoodoo' days." said Morris Sal
monsen, the license clerk. This is not
the case with foreigners"
Buoy Drifts 2400 Miles - The
French bark Mareschal de Turenne
has arrived from London. bringing an
American red can buoy picked up July
p 2400 miles from New York. 1t has
travelled nearly across the Atlantic.
The lighthouse department reports the
buoy is one of a half dozen that slipped
their moorings at different points on
the Atlantic coast.
Secures PUMA special from
Beverly. Mass. to the Chicago Record
Herald says it was decided at con-
ference between President Taft and
other officials Friday night that Prof.
Charles r. Merriam of the university
of Michigan and a member of the chi
cago city council be appointed census
supervisor Of the Chicago district If he
will accept the position.
Noted Club Woman Dies-Dr.
Sarah Hackett Stevenson, the cele-
hrated club woman and settlement
worker. died Saturday of paralysis at
St. Elizabeths hospital Chicago attef
an illness of three years duration. DR..
stevenson was born in Ogle county,
Illinois. in 1915, Of Scotch-Irish par
ents. She was always an ardent ad-
vocate of Irish Independence.
To Aid Suffragettes-NeWpOrt
was placarded Saturday by Mrs. o. II.
p. Belmont for her suffrage meetings
at Marble house August "a and August
%. Mrs. Belmont in her circular cards,
pOsted on fashionable Bellevue avenue,
SAYS her palatial villa. Marble house,
said to be the finest house at any sum-
mer resort in the world, will be open
for inspection from to 4 o'clock on the
days OF the lectures
Goes to Denver-DireCtOr Bar
rett of the international Bureau or
American Republics left Washington
Saturday to attend the transmississippi
congress 10 be held next week at Den
YER He will be joined there by Gen.
Carlos Garcia Nelez' the cuban MINIS
ter to this country. Afterward they
will go to Seattle to attend the expo
stion, and they may make oftcial Nls-
it's to San Francisco and portland at
the request of commercial organlza-
tions of those cities.
Oil Trust to Sell Butter-De-
spite its denial that it intended to en-
ter the field of dairying, the standard
on company broke ground Friday at
Ravonne. n J., for the erection of
$50 900 building in which. when com
pleted. will be installed $500, 1000 worth
of machinery for the purpose OF turn
ing petroleum into butter At 26 Broad
way, New York, complete ignorance OF
tbe subject was pleaded but it is
known the machinery has been stored
I'm the works of the Tidewater Oil COM
pany at Constable Hook for some time.
To Buy 5000 Cars-Ihe Rock
Island system soon will place orders
for 500 forty-tOn freight cars and ultE
locomotives, says dispatch from New
York. Two thousand old freight cars
now in use will he sent to the scrap
hoaD when the new cars are delivered.
Recent railroad equipment orders are
5000 steel hopper cars by the Chesa-
pealle & Ohio i'm addition to the I7oo
ordered this year: seventy passenger
cars by the Baltimore q ONO t"elIy-
five passenger locomotives by the
Great Northern. ninety cars by tne
Atchison and fifty cars by the Detroit
United Railways.
Blue Color Soothes-The latest
Partisan "cure" is for a bad temper,
according To a story in a Paris morn
ING paper A husband who had been
living inharmoniously with his wife
consulted a doctor. No cause being
found for disagreements, the doctor
visited the patients home and there
found red paper on the walls. The doc-
tor ordered a change. "Red, ne SalQ'
'eXCltcS the temper, liS DluC' WIN ~
soothing experiment was made with
the result that the disposition of the
wife became angelic as before. Ac-
cording to the doctor, a blue room
tames the most exacting shrew.
Grass Tickles Feet - Young
women of the Fine Arts society of Oak
Park. In., are TO aid in interpreting the
Grecian drama, THE Ladies of Ath-
ans. A,1gugt oS have tried dancing in
their bare feet They do not ike It.
Therefore. although absolute fidelity to
the ancient Greek period will be OBJ
served in stage settings and costumes,
i'm that particular the artistic tradi-
tions will be violated. They declared
the grass tickled their bare feet At
rehearsals their g'sgles quite upset the
orchestra. and their efforts to get away
from the tickle on the sOles of their
feet interfered with the stateliness and
the grace Of the rhythmic Greek dance.
Twenty-Five Persons Shot
PARIS, Aug 1.-THE Mathis corrC-