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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
FIXES SCHEDULE
FOR BASKETBALL
GRAMMAR SCHOOL ATHLETIC
COMMITTEE is BUSY
GAMES MAY NOT BE PLAYED AT
MANCHESTER COURTS
Expense of Pupils Car Fare May Re-
quire Games to Be Played on
Grounds Easy of
Access

Chairman w. w. Tritt of the gram
mar school athletic comittee has been
busy for a few days in arranging the
basketball schedule for the seniors and
juniors.
The schedule has been arranged so
that several games are listed to be
played at the Manchester school court,
but Chairman Tritt learned yesterday
the expense for students carfare to
and from these games would be too
great, therefore, in all probability,
games scheduled for these grounds will
be played at the Thirtieth street courts,
the latter being much nearer to the
other schools.
Following is the schedule arranged:
January 5-McKinley avenue VS. Thir-
tteth street, at Mckinley avenue;
Washington VS.. Main street, at NcKin-
ley avenue; West Vernon VS.. Manches-
ter, at Mckinley avenue
January S-McKinley VS.. Manchester,
at Main street; Washington street VS..
Thirtieth street, at Main street; West
Vernon VS.. Main street, at Main street.
January 12-McKinley VS.. Main street,
at Washington street; Washington VS..
West Vernon, at Washington street,
Thirtieth street VS.. Manchester street
at Washington street.
January 15-McKinley VS.. Washing
ton, at West Vernon; West Vernon VS..
VS.. Main street, at West Vernon.
January 19-McKinley avenue VS..
West Vernon, at Thirtieth; Washing
ton VS.. Manchester, at Thirtieth; Thir-
tieth VS.. Main street, at Thirtieth.
January 22-McKinley avenue VS..
Thirtieth, at Manchester; Washington
VS.. Main street, at Manchester; West
Vernon VS.. Manchester, at Manchester.
January 26-McKinley avenue VS.
Manchester, at Mckinley; Washington
VS.. Thirtieth, at Mckinley; West Yer
non VS.. Main street, at Mckinley ave-
nue..
January 29-McKinley VS.. Main, at
Main; Washington VS.. West Vernon, at
Main; Thirtieth VS.. Manchester, at
Main street.
Other athletic events to be played
among the various grammar school
teams as arranged by the athletic COM
mittee are as follows:
Girls games, Junior and senior teams
Baseball, October g; volleybalI, JAN
uary 8; basketball, February 10.
Boys games, senior and Junior teams
Rugby football, October 8; volleybal,
October 9; soccer football, November
25; basketball, November %; handball,
January 8, singles and doubles; base
pail, February 10; track meet, March
10, seniors only.
Any pupil in regular attendance and
good in department may play in n
senior team. Those pupils under five
feet in height may play in a junior
team
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
ASK WOOLWINE TO
PROSECUTE CARLSON:
FREDERICkS OBJECTS
Depositors Of Consolidated Bank Urge
Former City Official to Aid,
but District Attorney
Says "No"

DepOsitOrs of the Consolidated bank,
becoming angry over the delay in the
prosecution Of w. HI. Carlson, presi-
dent Of the institution, are urging the
selection of Thomas Lee WOOlwine to
assist Deputy District Attorney Frank
P. Blair. in the criminal proceedings
now pending in Justice Selph'S court.
The depOsitOrs, however have small
hopes that District Attorney Fredericks
will accede to their wishes. Mr.. Wool
wines name was suggested to Cap
tain Fredericks by Miss Margaret Cor
man yesterday. Miss German is a de-
positOr of the Carlson bank. All her
money was tied up when the bank
was taken charge of by the banking
commissioners.
The district attorney has not for
gotten his former association with Mr..
WOOlwine and the suggestion that he
appoint him practically as a member
Of his staff Of assistants was sufficient
to arouse his dormant antagOnism.
Miss German was waved aside.
Deputy District Attorney c.. Ray
Horton, who has been assisting Mr..
Blair in the Carlson prosecution, is in
Sacramento, attending the session of
the legislature as minute clerk of the
senate. 1t is not known who will take
his place as associate of MI Blair,
but the belief is general that lit will
not be Mr.. WoOlwine.
Mr.. Woolwine said last night he ex-
pected no other action on the part of
the district attorney, whom he has
frequently denounced in the past for
what he termed negligence and in
competency.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
INDOOR MARATHON IS
PLANNED BY L.A.A.C.

Plans are being formulated for pull
ing off another Marathon race in Los
Angeles and already steps have been
taken for the organization of the COM
mittees to manage the event, which is
planned for Washington's birthday. 1t
will be held under the auspices of the
Los Angeles Athletic club and it is
proposed to hold it indoors or at some
convenient park in the city-on the
order of the Madison Square garden
Marathon.
Charlie EytOn, referee of everything
athletic has been chosen as manager
of the affair.". and George Braden has
been selected as referee. The club
members are joining in the movement
with greater enthusiasm than they
have shown for a long time and the
indoor idea is taking like wildfire. 1t
generally is believed that the Shrine
auditorium will be selected as the place
for holding the race, but this has not
been setted yet. To hold the race in
doors would necessitate building a
track of, say, ten laps, but admission
fees would be charged to cover the
expenses of the development of anna
teur athletics in Southern California
Details will be fully discussed and
plans definitely outlined at a meeting
to be he'd today at the club rooms.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
ST. VINCENT COLLEGE
PRACTICES BASEBALL
Catholic Institution Has Number of
Promising Candidates Who Are
Likely to Develop Into
Excellent Players

Coach Moores of st. Vincent college
had his baseball squad out for regular
practice yesterday afternoon at Chutes
ball park, and, from the showing made,
bright prospects are seen for the
Catholic institution.
Among those who reported for prac-
tice are Grindle, Davidson, a six-footer
from Pomona college and Leo O'Con-
nor, local boy, catchers.
In the pitching department, the
Saints will have Buckley, formerly of
Pomona, Kerfoot and Tommy de Ybar-
rondo, who will take turns at short
stop also.
The candidates for first base are
Workman and Kennedy, formerly of
Santa Clara college
Shuttle, formerly of U. S. c., J. Ken
nedy and Sullivan are out trying for
second base.
Callahan seeks to play at left field,
while Cunningham will be out for CEN
ter garden. One of the pitchers also
will be out for right garden.
After Easter the team will play Santa
Clara college at Santa Clara, Berkely
and Stanford universities, the Univers-
ity of Nevada and the Utah Agricul-
tural university.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

BRYAN TO VISIT CUBA-William 7
Bryan Will visit Florida early in February.
and may go to Cuba, says a dispatch from
Lincoln, Neb.
STRIKE ENDED-After weakening grad
ually during the past week the strike of
cabmen and chauffeurs, members of the
Liberty Dawn association, was officially de-
clared off at a meeting in New York Both
sides claim a victory.
SAYS HE'S INNOCENT-Judge Waste
granted Peter Claudianes until February l
to prepare and file his bill of exceptions to
his recent life sentence. Sheriff Barnet re-
peated to the court that Claudianes had
maintained his declaration Of innocence up
to his Incarceration in San Quentin.
PROJECT ABANDONED-The board Of
supervisors of Fresno yesterday abandoned
the project to urge the voting of $4,000, 600
bonds to build good roads. Opposition from
farmers in various parts of the county led
to the decision. J. T. Vosheu the govern
ment expert, had been sent here to advise
in regard to road building
ACCUSED OF FORGERY-Harry L
Bremner, who claims to have been a clerk
in the employ of the Chemical National
bank Of New York. was arrested in San
francisco yesterday on a charge of forgery.
Bremner IS accused of having cashed sew
eral checks for 500 each, bearing the
forged signature of c. F. Adams of Boston
FIND MISSING BIAN-T. A Cox of San
Francisco, secretary of an Arizona smelling
to communicate with her, reported him
missing was yesterday located through the
efforts of the police. Cox was a passenger
on a northbound train which left San Fran
cisco last Saturday and arrived in Portland
Ore, yesterday.
ENGINEER DIES-William c. Ambrose
for sixteen years civil engineer for the
Southern Pacific railroad died at Berkeley
yesterday after a long Illness, aged 81. He
constructed the Fresno City railway, the
Tonopah & Sodaville road and roads in
Siskiyou county. He was a native of Nova
Scotia, where he graduated from Kings
college. He leaves a widow and three chill
dren.
MONITOR SAILS-The United States
monitor Cheyenne, recently called the
wyoming, steamed out of San Francisco
harbor yesterday, bound for Southern Cali
fornia ports where she will remain prob
ably for three months. The vessel recently
was fitted with oil-burning furnaces, and
the present trip is in the nature of ex-
pertinent to determine the effect on the
boilers of oil used fuel.
MEETINGS CANCELED-Chairman Fair
weather of the Raisin association of Fresno
yesterday Cancelled all district meetings
called for the purpose of getting growers
signatures to a contract pooling their rails
ms San Francisco packers, who had en-
tered into contract to handle and sell
the goods notified Chairman Fairweather
that they had been advised that the pro-
posed pooling of raisins was in contraven-
ton Of the Cartwright antitrust bill
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
POLYTECHNIC BEGINS
SEASON OF PRACTICE
Manager Strang Believes He Will Re.
tain Pennant Captured Last Year
by His Leather Sphere
Followers

Polytechnic high school baseball team
began its tryOut season for candidates
yesterday afternoon at the Prayer. mark
diamond. Twenty-three students re-
ported to Capt Monk" Pierce and a
fine showing for a beginning was made.
Manager Strang was well pleased
with the results of yesterday and after
the practice game said: Il think from
the material on hand that Polytechnic
will be in a position to carry away the
pennant again this season. [ am fully
aware there are several fast batteries
in the squads of the various high
schools, but still I believe L can cope
with the situation as far as material
is concerned
For catchers Capt. Pierce will have
Melone, an old student and an exDe-
rienced player, and Harmon, an Echo
park athlete.
In the twirling department Brooks.
Tompkins and Porter will be rival can
didates.
Price, Dodson, F7inkle and Bryan are
out for first base.
McAleer, Bibo and Terry will run
neck and neck for second base. while
Capt. Monk Pierce is in a race by
himself for shortstop.
Newman, brother of Newman who
is connected with the Los Angeles high
school, will fight it out with Pratt for
third base
Tom Pierce and Harlow will COM
pete for left field Kurrle, so far. is
the only student reporting for center
field, while right field will be filled by
one of the infielders.
Polytechnic will practice at the Chutes
park diamond Monday and Thursday
of each week
match game will be played Janu-
airy with the Schoolmasters' club at
the Chutes park diamond.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
.PEIXOTTO TO COME
TO CITY OF ANGELS
Official Will Attend Regular Weekly
Meeting of Southern California
Branch of the National
Association

At the regular meeting Of the South
ern California branch Of the A. A. u.
Wednesday night, President Sidney s.
PeiXotto Of San Francisco, coast repre-
sentative for President Sullivan of the
Amateur Athletic Union and chairman
Of the executive committee Of New
York, will be present. The meeting
will be held in the library room at the
Y. NJ. G. A. building.
At this meeting the st. Vincent fac
ulty will ask to be admitted to this
organization.
Other matters to be brought before
the committee will be the water polo
question, which has been in an unset
tied state for the past few weeks.
Much interest was evinced among
high school students when it was given
out that President PieXotto would come
south, believing he would stir up anna
teur athletics in a general way among
high school students, but one who en-
joys the confidence of Peixotto says he
is only coming to Los Angeles for a
few weeks recreation.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
AERIES COMBINE FORCES
FOR JOINT INSTALLATION
Large Crowd Meets at Eagles Hall
Presentation Made to Retiring
President and Christmas
Gifts Distributed

At Eagles hall, 116 East Third street,
last night joint instllation ceremonies
were held by Los Angeles, Pasadena,
San Pedro, Santa Ana and Ocean Park
aries. Fully a thousand persons were
in attendance.
State President Goodsel of San Ber-
nardinO, gave an interesting talk on
installation work and Brother Dodge
of Denver spoke on Eagledom, taking
special occasion to compliment the
ladies on the excellent work they had
done for the order.
Retiring President Peter Frolich was
presented with a gold case containing
an engraved life membership.
George Renwick of the Los Angeles
arie acted as Santa Claus and dis
tributed a number of presents from
the magnificent Christmas tree.
Dancing was INDUCED in until a late
hour.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
Bio Fire in BeIIinuhan

BELLINGHAM, Jan. 4.-The plant Of
the Puget Sound Mills and Timber
company, the biggest shingle mill in
the world, burned tonight. Loss $415,-
900; insurance $150,000. w. L. Cleve-
land, a saw-fler, was burned to death
and several other persons had mar
row escapes. The fire started from a
hot-boX
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
Discusses Salaries

Salaries are of course considerable part
of any large business. In the police depart
ment we expect to pay more for patrolmen
to guard streets than for furniture in
the police station; in the school department,
we expect that more will be paid for 700
teachers than for blackboards- believe
most department stores also pay more per
month for employees than for counters. Sim
ilarly in the library, a large part Of the
expenditure is necessarily for service. 1t
takes people to order books, to accession
books, to number books, label books, cata-
logue books classify books and circulate
books. We have challenged comparison with
the other cities of the Union by printed re-
ports of the library for several years. None
of these cities have picked up the challenge
No one who knows anything about libraries
has ever attempted to disprove the claim
that Los Angeles has a better library service
in proportion than any other city in the
country.
1t is a recognized fact in TIE library pro-
fession-and 1t is a profession, with a ma
tional organization of some 1000 members,
representing every considerable popula ton
in the United States-that so per cent for
salaries is the minimum that should be taken
of the total expenditures of public library.
The last annual report of this library, page
salaries over " per cent of the library in
come, Allegheny 50 per cent, Louisville IS
per cent, San Francisco so per cent, Jersey
City 60 per cent; and so on; whereas Los
Angeles is paying As per cent. Provinclaiism
is seldom patriotic.
1t may be true, stated. that the total
income of the city is S3,365,950, and that of
this amount only 100000 is expended in
permanent Improvement" or 1888 per cent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
Pointed

First Drummer-My firm made half a
million in 1907.
Second Drummer-My firm made more
than ten millions
-,sYou must have a very profitable line ?"
''Pins."-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
Fleet at Panama

CAHUANO, Chile, January 4-The
Pacific fleet arrived here today from
Panama.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
Not Writing History

The librarian is not writing a history of
Los Angeles" no stenOgrapher or other per
son employed by the library has ever given
one hour Of library time to any work of mine
personally or to any work outside the library
work, far I am aware. Any one who
has ever used any library has some notion
of the enormous amount of typewriting
necessary for the routine of book orders,
correspondence, cataloguing, photographed
lists, reading lists, etc.
I am willing to have an expert cOmpari-
son made as between the typewriting done in
this library and in any other library in the
country, in any other department of this
city, or in any newspaper office, or business
office as to it's cost in proportion to the
public benefit. AS to correspondence have
myself sent out this year over 10000 library
letters. Thousands more have gone from the
departments The library sends out also
tens OF thousands of notices every year No
way has been discovered by which these no
tees can look up direct and mail themselves
without human intervention AS to the mat
ter of visiting, and social amenities, and
Iuncheons," contained in this article, I believe
city employees have the human right to eat
lunch and to speak to their fellow beings
when they see them. And there is no more
Of these things or of any of these things in
the library than in any other department Of
this city or in any other city.
I have found the auditors office as willing
to accept a cigar and a good morning."
and 1 trust that the employees there are all
lowed to take sustenance in the middle Of
the day.
These are merely my personal opinions as
a citizen charged with certain responsible
ity to his fellow citizens
CHARLES F. LUMIIS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
Post-EIection Conversations

Post=EIectIon CONVERSATIONS
Applicant-Have yez got
New Office Holder-Is it anything OF
value Tez wants?
1T is, begorrah."
Thin we hoven't got it, TIL partly
gon' out has taken it wild 'em. Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
"Looks Easy"

Any business looks ''easy" until you come
to do it. In by forthcoming annual report
of the library I am printing a condensed
statement of the routine required in every
public library between the publishing of
book and its use by the patrons of saiC
library. This library needs more attendant:
than any other, because the municipal rou
tine is incOmparably more complicated here
| than in any other public library in the
! world. In conjunction with the fact tina
no other population in the world so actively
uses its public library, and therefore de
mandS so much service, this indicates tina
we need far more attendants than we have
now, and that have far less than othel
libraries for the same work.
While 1t may be true that the employees
of the public library work seven hours
day for an average monthly salary of $685.
they work six days a week. and each with
proportion of night work and holiday worl
and Sunday work. The public library doe
not close Saturday noon and Sundays anC
| holidays, as the city auditors office does
1t is open all day Saturday and from 1 to
p. m on Sundays and holidays. 1t is alsC
open every business day from a. m. Il
$3.50 p. m; again somewhat different from
any of the other city departments.
The employees of the auditors office wOrl
eight hours a day five and a half days
week; have no night, or Sunday, or holiday
or Saturday afternoon hours, and have az
average monthly salary Of s141. Both staff
are good, and I finding fault. Blu
who knows what's what.
There are no politics in this staff. There
are a few clerks. The rest are required Il
have the education Of school teachers. be
sides a technical training in library worE
which is about equivalent to a course in
business college. They have to be able t.
meet and to serve all the many classes o.
people who think they can learn something
from books. They have to pass a severe eX
aminatio on entrance-and entirely aside
from and above the civil service examination
than teachers in the public schools; anC
they are not nearly well paid.
The auditors statement is that they ge
an average of s53.25 per month. The aver
age salary in the city for policemen, fremen
building inspectors, seaIer of weights anC
measures, dead animal inspectors license col
lectors and auditors clerks is over 500 pc
month. The rest of the article is equal!
misleading. There are not six stenograph
ers in the library" and there never havt
been There are no "typewriters '-anC
never will be until this library loses it,
average education. Every attendant wh
has come through the training class has Il
learn the of the typewriter. Most bust
ness houses do not now deem 1t economy t
use the pen instead of the machine Their
are four people in the library, far
know, who are stenographers; there is on
steadily employed as stenographer. Tn,
rest give full service in various capacities
and take dictatiOn when needed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05

The total expenditures Of the public library
for the past year were s11383 of which
SS7,5S were for permanent improvements in
DOCKS periodicals, binding and furniture,
tnat is, 20 per cent of the total income. If
the permanent improvements in the city
AUDITORS office, for instance show SO per
per cent Of its total expenditure this might
siaIIy those who think that furniture is
more important than alert auditor.
me aforesaid article questions what this
most OF attendants has to do in the library
II mas 10 do more in proportion to number
ana 10 salary than is done in any other large
pee a nnrary IN America. 1t does tin spite
Oh nea bites. The figures given as to number
or staff are misleading. Ten of the sixty
Two principals and attendants''-or nearly
10 per ceht-are now absent. They are not
on on the actual pay roll now, and will not be
Ior several months to come. For reasons
familiar to every public library in the world.
there is always something like this shortage
between the nominal and the actual pay roll.
Inc staH on duty has, among other things,
TO wait upon between 1000 and 5000 persons
a Day Last year it circulated over 7O4 600
volumes. Any one who has ever used any
library knows that this means the direct
charging of over 100000 volumes per year,
or over $500 charges per day for circulating
days. This is only a small part of the direct
service of the staff to the public. ANY one
who will become familiar with our two great
reading and study rooms-which for size
and light have no equal among public Ifbrar-
les in America-wiIl observe the enormous
patronage This more than doubles the
figures for outside circulation from the gen.
eral desk
That is to say over 5000 books a day are
Facilitated to the public by these young
women Counting the of the reference
room, where one patron often uses twenty
nve volumes, and the patrons number hun
dreds daily, the daily handling of books by
the staff for the public is over 10, 00O This
IS entirely besides the enormous routine re-
quired to bring a book from publisher to
public-the work room activities of book
ordering, bookkeeping, accessioning, classi-
fication, cataloguing binding, numbering
plating, the mending of 800 600 to 5000 vol
umes per year; the registering of 1900 card
holders a year, the cash transactions and
$113, 900 per year
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05

real estate advertisement sells one mans
property before another mans FOR SALE"
Dlacard has even commenced to gather dust
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05

CHARLES F. LUMMIs.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-06-21
EMPLAZAMIENTO

EI PT'EBTO 0F PUERTO RICO
4 Ilipdito ITURRIOS Y OSORO, cnr-
yo domrilio ~ ignori, o sea demanc
daalo mites mencionad0.
POR Ia PRESENTE SE NOTIFY
CA A USTED, quc Sc ha pr~mtado %
In oflcinra d,J Secrctario de Ia Cortc
Munripal da Distrito Judicial Mum
cipal de Manati, Puerto Rico, la d.
nanda del actor mtcs cnsaiO, EN- In
cual Sc rcsAaHa Il listed una suma dc
dincro y sSGita: "Qus Ia Cortc, pre-
vios Ix tramites 'lcgalcs. dictc una
Sentencia dec}aramio que In Icy los
hcchoS sStan favor de In dclna nsiam-
te y courlcnar al demandaho lIip6lito
Iturrids Osou, al rago de la suma dc
DOSCIEN1OS DOLLARS. Sis into
rcSeS lcgales dcsde la fccha dc cssta
reclamacrin coStas v dcSembolsos nc
ccSarinS
Y babRmloSe eXpnpcSto por medic de
decLTacrjn juraha ign0rarsc cl donni
ciiio de usted y que usted es partr le-
gitima y necesarla en- este plelto, Ia
Cortc, tmIcndO por cOmprobado este
extreme y considerando q,p cx sste
caliSa de acci0n contra I'd, el demanda-
do. por orden de fccha De aver ha dis
pucsto que la cltacron cmplazamen-
to dc usted. lhp6lto Iturrios Oso-
TO. se haga por edictos que sc fijaa;n
en- d local de esta Corte Sc publ
car;ln Jus' termino dc CUARENTA dias
UNA VEZ cada semana, en- I'M pc
riodlco diario de los que ST editan en-
Ia capital De la isla'
ST NOTIFICA A listed, que de no
compas,rer eontestar dnha dema7nia.