Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

ID lilly BODEMER of Cincinnati,
II business man, sportsman and one
of the biggest Elks in the country,
arrived in Los Angeles last Friday
night to launch the coast campaign for
the election of Garry Hermann to the
Office of grand exalted ruler Of the or
der and to arrange for the accommoda-
tion Of 300 Cincinnati ElkS during the
reunion to be held here next July. He
says that Cincinnati lodge, No. 5, B. P.
o. E., is booming the popular sports
man for the office, and their efforts in
his behalf are meeting with such an
enthusiastic reception throughout the
country that they feel assured he will
be elected. About 800 members of No.
will come to Los Angeles to see that
their plans do not miScarry, and they
will come in style, too, as Bodemer is
arranging for three special trains to
bring the members and their families.
Hermann formerly was a newsboy, but
now is one of the foremost citizens of
Cincinnati and a former mayor of that
city. He is prominently identified with
many large business enterprises, is a
leading citizen Of Cincinnati, and a
thoroughbred sportsman who is known
to every baseball fan in America by
reason of his connection with the Ma
tional league and as a member of the
Darmody met Bodemer at the train and
escorted him about the city, introduce
ing him to local Elks, and from ex-
pressions heard from members Of the
local lodge it looks like a Hermann
delegation at the next convention. Dar-
mody, Brink, Freddie Maier and other
local Elks quietly started the Herr
mann boom here several weeks ago,
and it was no surprise when Bodemer
showed up as the advance guard of the
Hermann boomers.
DR.. J. S. Gardner, manager of the
Santa Anita meeting, became famous
yesterday as a stri1ebreaker when he
summarily broke up a strike at the
track among the platers and black
smiths. The latter, about forty in num-
Der, became aggrieved because r. AL
berS, blacksmith in the employ of
r. T. Carman, was fined 5000 by the
stewards for his share in the Carman-
Dooley scrap, and insisted that the fine
be removed. DR.. Gardner told them he
had no jurisdiction in the matter, and
also said that their efforts would be
unavailing, in his opinion. They went
away and organized strike. Yester-
day they called upon DR.. Gardner to
inform him that they were strikers.
DR.. Gardner did not waste time with
them, but ordered them to turn in their
badges and get off the grounds or he
would call the police and force them
to leave. AS they are making more
money at their jobs every day than any
three bookmakers' clerks they quickly
decided they were not strikers and
would not attempt further to coerce the
judges and track management into re-
moving the fine on Albers. The board
of stewards is supreme in power in
control Of the meeting, and the platers
made the mistake of attempting to hold
the management of the meeting re-
sponsible for the acts of those higher in
authority.
Jack Ripper is sick man and has
been at his place Of business only for
few hours in two days. La grippe
the fashionable and highly disagreeable
disease, was the cause. He was down
town yesterday for a short time. the
first time since Thursday, but had to
return home and the bed early in the
evening. 1t nearly kills him to stay