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Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
VACHER FAMILY MAY
CAUSE DOWNFALL OF
THE ANIMAL LEAGUE
MORE TROUBLE BREWING FOR
HUMANE SOCIETY
Petition Prepared for Circulation Asks
Mayor to Take Steps to Revoke
Contract with oraan-
ization

The Vacher family, which brought
former dog catching methods into dis
repute and caused the abolition of the
old system bid fair to cause the down.
fall of the Humane Animal league, the
organization which now handles the
canine problem of Los Angeles.
Trouble. which for months has been
a feature of the leagues existence, and
which in part was due to the fact that
the head of the organization insisted
on continuing the Vachers on the pay
roll, has again broken out, and the end
is not yet.
According to a petition which has
been prepared for circulation and
which is to be presented to Mayor
Alexander 1t is charged that the
league never was legally entitled to
enter into a contract with the city.
The petition follows:
"The Mayor of the City OF Los An
geles.
"Sir: We, the undersigned, respect
fully petition your honor to take the
necessary steps for the revocation of
the contract between the city of Los
Angeles and the corporation known as
the Humane Animal league of Los An
geles, said contract for the operation
of dog and stock pound having been
entered into by the said city of Los
Angeles in direct violation of the city s
charter, which provides that city Of
fetal may not enter into a contract for
the city with corporation of which
he is an interested party. We respect
fully affirm that at the time the afore-
mentioned contract was entered into
the president of the Humane Animal
league of Los Angeles was an official
of the city government of Los Ange-
les"
A director who recently resigned adds
the following charges:
1--WE charge unbusinesslike and un-
parliamentary administration.
Books kept in a most Incompetent
sible manner
1--WE were led to believe that the
Vachers had been discharged until
after the contract with the city was
made.
Large sums of money uselessly ex-
pended. Funds about exhausted.
MATTERS of business Importance,
such as large expenditures of money
and purchases were made unbeknoWn
to the directors.
bylaws ignored
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
PUBLIC WHARvES
AT SAN PEDRO NO
VISIONARY DREAM
Los ANGELES ALREADY IS
MAKING PLANS
COUNCIL ORDERS CITY ENGINEER
TO BEGIN SURVEY
Warehouses Where Great Commerce
Can Be Handled Are Expected at
Definite Date-EVery One
Enthusiastic

AS evidence that public wharves ano
warehouses at San Pedro are no dream
of a misty future but can be expected
at a. definite date, work has ALREADY
been ordered begun with this OBJECT
in view, The work ordered is only the
preliminary step, but it is of sufficient
importance to convince the residents
Of San Pedro that Los Angeles means
business on the free harbor proposition
and that charter amendment NO. l.
recently adopted, was put there for a
purpose.
By a resolution of the city council,
adopted yesterday, the city engineer is
instructed to make surveys OF the
outer and inner harbor of san Pedro
and ascertain how much frontage is
available for public docks and ware
houses and to estimate the probable
cost of the construction of these neces-
sary adjuncts to free harbor. While
he is about it, Mr.. Hamlin, the city
engineer, will also make estimates on
a macadamized road from Los Angeles
to San Pedro. This work will be be-
gun as soon as the engineer can get
his forces in the field.
While most of this data are available,
there is nothing of the kind on record
in the city hall, nor is 1t in such shape
the cost of the proposed public i'm
provements will be. This estimate Is
necessary in order to prepare figures
for a bond issue.
This action was brought about by
a proposition submitted, to the coun-
Gil by the San Pedro board of trade.
In this communication the San Pedro
body asked that the council give the
harbor city some assurance of what
IN ~ l.
solidation and asked this information
before the consolidation election was
submitted to the people of San Pedro.
The board of trade suggested that 1t
could i'll afford to wait until the long
litigation involving the right of GER
tain tidelands in the inner harbor, held
by private individuals and which is
being contested, could be settled, and
that Los Angeles should assure san
Pedro that action would be taken fo-
the construction of public docks and
warehouses and a macadamized road
from Los Angeles to San Pedro as soon
as the consolidation was effected.
They also asked that the present
harbor commission be reorganized and
preferably made a commission of five
instead of three, as at present, and
that San Pedro be represented on this
commission. They suggested that an
attorney familiar with the harbor mat
ter and interested in the situation be
appointed. No other suggestions for
members were made.
The communication was one involving
a great deal of thought and discus
sion and after a long consultation
among themselves the council took the
matter under advisement in connection
with the mayor. But that San Pedro
will be given all the assurance of good
faith on the part of the council that it
is possible for that body to give, is a
foregone conclusion. Every member
of the council is enthusiastically inter-
ested in consolidation and they will do
all they can to further the project.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
PROPERTY OWNERS ASK
THAT STREET BE PAVEC

Another chapter was added to an
old story when property owners on
Thirty-si place appeared before the
council yesterday and asked that body
to pave their street from Vermont to
Normandie with oil macadam and place
wide cement cutters to carry off the
storm water. The property owners
asked that a he city pay half the ex-
pense of this Improvement.
A number of members of the council
and especially Councilman Wallace, in
whose ward the street Is located, be-
lieve it no more than right that the
city should pay portion of this i'm
provement. Since the paving of YER
mont avenue Thirty-sixth place has
been made the storm sewer for prac-
tically all the southwest part of the
city. The water has rushed through
this street with such velocity and in
such quantities that it has even cut
under the curbs in some places.
The cost of the Improvement would
be about $4,000. OF this amount 1t is
proposed the city pay half and the
property owners half. The matter was
referred to the city engineer for his
opinion.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
DATES OF SALE


To Colorado points--May Is. l6. II, Is. June
81 TO July inclusive, August to IA in
elusive
To all other points--MAy Is. 49, 20. 81, 22,
81, June / to 4 inclusive, IA to 10 in
elusive, 20 20 and 27, July tot inclusive.
August 0 to 13 inclusive, September to
10 inclusive, 13, II, 10.
Return LImit--For May, June and July
sales. three months after day of sale. For
August and September sales, october 81.
1909.
For various national conventions tickets
will be sold as follows:
st. Louis, Mo.-Royal Arcanum supreme
Council Sell May 15, is. 20. Fl. 20. Rate
s6750.
Denver, Colo.-Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,. Sell May is to IS. Rate $500.
Harrisonburg, Waterman Baptist Breth-
rem Sell May 20, 81, 2s. Rate ss7eo
Atlantic City. N. J.-American Medical Assn.
Sell May 81 to June 4. Rate $1ooso.
Louisville, Ky.-Mystic Shrine Imperial
Council Sell May 81 to June I. Rate
s7so5.
Cincinnati, O.--North American Gymnastic
Union. Sell June IA and is. Rate $500
Denver, Colo.-National Educational Assn.
Sell June ~ to July 8. Rate $500.
st. Paul, Mipn--Christian Endeavor. Sell
June "a to a. June 29, July to 7-- Rate
1880.
Minneapolis, Minn.-Y p. C. u. Universalist.
Sell July to 7. Rate 1880
Rates from San Pedro and Long Beach
will be 10 cents higher in each instance than
shown above.
Return limit of tickets will be three
months.
For full particulars of stopovers diverse
routes train service, etc., ask ticket agents.
Los Angeles offices are at COL So. Spring
st. and First st. station.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
SYSTEM OF PURCHASING
MAY BE CHANGED BY CITY

The entire system of city supply
purchasing will be reorganized. The
matter of reorganization will be taken
up by the council at its meeting in
two weeks. Councilman Dromgold is
responsible for the reorganization, but
just what he has in mind he would not
say yesterday Councilman Lyon be-
lieves city supplies should be pur-
chased as they are for a big business
concern. He would have all supplies
bought in large quantities and kept in
a storehouse until needed.
The matter of reorganization came
up over the appointment of Mrs. Sadie
Connolly as assistant supply COMMITTEES
clerk. Mrs. Connolly has been holding
the position for nearly six months by
ordinance, but the civil service COM
mission compelled the council to ap-
point her in the regular way. Wallace
and Dromgold were against the ap-
pointment, holding that an extra clerk
was not needed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
sHoEsTRING STRIP TO
HAVE FlVE-CENT FARE

That residents of the newly annexed
territory at the head of the shoestring
strip will have scent fares without
long litigation was the half promise
made by Councilman Wallace when
the matter came before the council
yesterday. Mr.. Wallace asked that the
matter be postponed for a week and
at the next session said he was GER
tain w. Z. Dunn of the Huntington
railways would have something favor
able to report.
"Mr. Dunn has asked this postpone
ment himself" said Mr.. Wallace. THE
committee of the council went to Mr..
Dunn last week and he said he wanted
to attend a session of the railway COM
mission this week and at the next ses-
sion would be able to give US a definite
answer. He as much as said the 5-cent
fares would be granted. 1t may be
the scent fare will not extend as far
as Manchester avenue, but it is certain
to go almost, if not quite, to that
point"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
CITY HALL NOTES

The Automobile club has asked a
committee of the council to meet a
committee of the club to formulate
some plan to force the observance of
the speed laws The committee of the
council will be named as soon as the
city attorney reports on what powers
the council has TO fix penalties for vio-
lation of the laws.
A large number of bids for engine
house sites in different parts of the
city were opened by the council yes
terday and referred to the land COM
mittee. From the prices asked it is
evident real estate still holds it's own
The council has asked the city at
torney whether it is necessary for the
council to pass on emergency demands
made by the aqueduct. These demands
are paid out of aqueduct funds and the
council knows nothing about them.
The city engineer was ordered by the
council to survey Mission road. This
is the first step toward making mission
road one of the connecting boulevards
of the city.
An amendment to the poultry ordin-
ance. passed by the council yesterday,
prohibits keeping chickens within S5
feet of any dwelling
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
s. p. C. A. AGREES TO REPAIR
PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAIN

BY an agreement made between the
council and N. W. thinner, superin-
tendent of the s. p. c. A, the animal
society will repair the fountain at Ninth
and Main streets, and the city will see
that no more malicious mischief is done.
Mr.. thinner stated that if it was again
molested the society would have to take
1t out, as it could not bear the con-
stant expense of repairs.
This fountain is arranged for man
and beast, but three times it has been
maliciousy broken. A street car mo-
torman reported he had seen the driver
of a heavy truck back against it three
times and not until it was thoroughly
broken was the driver willing to go on.
On another occasion the drinking pipe
was taken out with wrench, although
1t has practically no commercial value
1t is supposed the mischief is done by
some one who has a grievance against
the society.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
SUPERVISORS ACCEPT
BIDS FOR HIGHWAY WORK
Work viii Be Begun Shortly on EI
Monte Road to Alhambra-Frank
Gillespie Successful Bidder

The board of supervisors yesterday
accepted the bid of Frank Gillespie
for the construction of the two miles
of county highways on the Ell Monte
road from Los Angeles to Alhambra,
and this work, the first to be done
under the $3,500.000 bond issue, is ex-
pected to be begun in a short time.
Mr.. Gillespie's hid was $22.740 $40 more
than that of the lowest bidder A. II.
Calkins & Co, the award being made
on account of the closer conformity of
the successful bidder to the specifica-
tions for the work
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21

failed a reconsideration was moved
and 1t will be taken up for action next
week.
A number of residents from the
southwestern part of the city appeared
before the council and asked that II
the contract was awarded the United
Phosphate company. a clause be in
serted In the contract compelling them
to take their glue factory outside OF
smelling distance of the city. 1t was
represented this concern has its works
In Vernon, Just across from Jeffries'
fight pavilion and that residents near
it are nearly suffooated by the ter
rible odors
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
ASKS CITY COUNCIL TO
INVESTIGATE C0NNELL
Attorney Tells Civil Service Board 1t
Has No Jurisdiction In Case
of Engineer

The city attorney told the civil ser
vice commission last night that it had
no jurisdiction over ]. B. Connell, a
member of the city board of examining
engineers and that it could not try the
charges on which Mr.; Connell has
been cited to appear before the board
THE citv attorney held that the coun-
eli only had jurisdiction to put Mr..
Conneli on trial. Accordingly the
commission recommended to the coun-
ell that it investigate Mr.. ConnelPs
case.
Connell is charged, by large num-
Der of machinery houses, with being
agent for several makes of machinery
and using his influence as an eXamin-
ing engineer to sell this machinery. 1t
is alleged, also, that he refuses first
class certificates to applicants on the
ground that there are enough t1rst
class engineers in Los Angeles now.
Mr.. Connell is himself first class en-
gineer and acts as engineer for large
number of office buildings, employing
assistants to do the actual work
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
sHoESTRING DISTRICT WILL
HAVE FIRE PROTECTION

That Gardena and the shoestring
strip Is slowly coming into its own was
shown by action of the council yester-
day when $500 was transferred from
the general expense fund to the fire
fund to provide for fire apparatus at
Gardena. This recommendation was
made by the finance committee and is
said to be the forerunner of other rec
concentrations of similar nature.
The apparatus to be purchased for
Gardena will probably be a chemical
wagon of some description, as that is
what the property owners of that dis
trict have asked for. They have also
asked that the city provide a police
man who shall also be a chief of the
fire department and have the authority
to organize volunteer fire depart
ment.
Another improvement that reaches
down into the newly annexed territory
is the widening of Figueroa street from
Slauson to Manchester to loo feet, for
which the preliminary steps were
taken yesterday.
II you want 10 go east. {. Haydock Agent
Ininois Central r. r.. lls W. Sixth street.
800
G-Aa
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21

School boys and girls may win 81 in
cash for best $50 word letter on When
was Caught" Address Aunt Laurie,
care this paper
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21

II you want 10 go east. {. Haydock Agen
Ininois Central r. r.. lls w. Sixth street.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21

DR.. Wells, Osteopath. 11s1z s. Spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21

L ROM all Salt Lake Route stations in
California tickets will be sold to the
following destinations at rates and on dates
named Subject to change):
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
GOVERNOR JOHNSON MAY
RECOVER, SAY DOCTORS
Slight Improvement in Patients
Condition Reported

ROCHESTER. Minn., Sept 1S.-Gov-
ernor Johnson today had the best day
since his operation Wednesday and to-
night Doctors Mayo and McNevin
agreed that his condition was most
encoUra ging.
Dr. William Mayo said this evening;
Governor Johnson is resting quietly
and is cheerful. If ne pulls through
tomorrow. I think he win live, and l
think he viii pull through tomorrow.
Doctors William and Charles Mayo
and DR.. c. 7. McNevin all caught the
governors pulse ana temperature at
the same marks, 102 and SO respect
lively, at o'clock. When asked by Doc
tor McNevin how he felt, Governor
Johnson said:
Pretty well, Mac. Much better than
Yesterday I have had scarcely any
pains this afternoon at all"
Mrs. Johnson. who has been in con-
stant attendance at her husbands bed
side during the day, walked with a
lighter step and looked less careworn
when she left the hospital tonight.
In spea king of Governor Johnson's
chances for recovery, Doctor McNevin
said:
While / do not wish to give a false
Impression or minimize the very grave
danger that Governor johnson is still
in. ] can not help feeling encoura ged
by the slow but gradual Improvement
Of the patient during the day
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
POST AND BELL
ARE DEDICATED
BYCLUbWOM[N
Monument Marks Line of Ell
Canine Real in Front of
Mission Dolores
Father MaximiIian Neuman
Gives Blessing and Christens
With Name ''St. Francis"

With The ringing of the cracked old
chimes Of the Mission Dolores and the
benediction Of brown robed Francis
can father. San Francisco harked back
TO its early history this afternoon, the
occasion being the planting of the bell
crowned sign post in front OF the Mis-
sion Dolores TO mark the line of Ell
Canine Real. which was traversed in
the early days by the Franciscan padres
and Gaspsr de Portola-
The members of the California club
are responsible for the placing of this
beu. the first north of Santa Clara. and
to Mrs. Laura Bride Powers must go
the honor Of having arranged the sue
cessful ceremony.
IN the little grassy island" in the
center OF Dolores street, the landmark
is placed. the iron post rising IL or
Is feet then curving down to support
the bell which was rung yesterday by
little Miss Marion Black and which,
strange 10 say. chimes in accord as
TO tone. with the old bells which hang
about it in the mission.
oID MISSION BELLS CHIME
The ceremony was begun with the
ringing Of the mission bells. fer the
FIRST time since a year ago easter. Mrs.
r. l. Baldwin. president Of the Cali
fornia club. then made a graceful
speech on the part women have taken
in the history OF California and in con-
clusion she said:
so today the departments of the
california club establish for the en-
richment Of their beloved city this sign
post a thing small in itself, but great
IN lis Significance 10 the city as home
ia which the history and achievements
lf those who paved the way for US
SHALL not be forgotten"
She then introduced Mrs. Powers,
WHO told a little Of the history of FL
Canine Real and said that the simple
ceremonies of the afternoon were
planned TO bring home TO Californians
the noble heritage of history and ro-
nance.
Then the little girls of the Douglas
school. under the leadership Of Miss
EsteIle Houghton, sang California,
and the boys OF the Columbia Park band
PLAYED ''El Canine Real" a march com
posed by Conrad Horst, leader of the
band
CEREMONY OF UNVEILING
Congressman James r. Knowland
was TIE DlEntlpdi speaker VI AAiC W
casion as president of the Landmarks
league and grand president of the Native
sons. He said that California must not
forget the real pioneers. who nrst
brought civilization TO this coast. the
Franciscan missionaries, and congrat-
uiated the California club on having
set up the monument
The bell was then unveiled by Miss
Marion Black, the daughter of Mrs
A. p. Black. vice president of the Cali
fornia club. but the covering proved
e. s7uaanageable and Congressman
-Inowland came to the rescue and COM
fsssleted the ceremony with her
The mission bells were rung again
Miss Black Ginning the new mission bell
too. and the band played The Stai
. SpangIed Banner" Father Maximilian
Neuman. o. F. NJ. of St Bonlfact
church, then stepped forward in his
brown robe and blessed the bell
christen q il st Francis" The band
paved America, which the throns
81 thered in the streets Joined in sing
sf<fe
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
AMERICANS ARE FAR
AHEAD IN MEDICINE
DIR. Seaman Says It's Useless to
Go Abroad for Treatment

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-Dr Louis
Livingstone Seaman, one of the Ameri-
can delegates 10 the recent interna-
tional medical congress at Budapest
arrived today on the steamer campania
from Liverpool, and spoke very en-
coura gingly OF the showing made there
by America and the success Of the con-
gress.
The Americans are far ahead of
other nations in many branches of sur
eery and medicine said Doctor Seaman n
''as shown by the testimony and the
exhibits AT the congress. This is par
ticularly so in the case of appendf-
citis. where we excel both in the treat
ment Of the disease and the technique
OF the operation,
speaking generally. Doctor Seaman said
II was the height of insanity for Amer
leans to go abroad for treatment by
foreign specialists when there were
physicians at home who could walk
all around the European medical men.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
FIRE HOSE ROUTS
RIOTOUS WOMEN
Suffragettes Throw Toy Bombs
and Weld Axes During the
Premier's Speech

BIRMINGHAM, Eng. Sept. 1s.-Pre-
mier Asquith last night addressed a
meeting remarkable for the frenzied
behavior of suffragettes. who threw
toy bombs and welded axes.
Two women climbed to the roof of a
building, loosened tiles. and bricks
with axes and pelted the police below.
Several persons were hurt.
The suffragettes were dislodged with
fire hose.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
TAKE NAVAL IMPOSTOR

NORFOLK. Va. Sept. 1s.-Donald C.
Thompson, charged in many places with
the perpetration of fraud by imperson-
ating Lieutenant Earl Mcfarland. U. S.
A.. now in the Philippines, and by reps
resenting himself generally as a naval
and army officer, was today delivered
by Justice Simmons to the federal au-
thorities here.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
rshoe Excursions Via southern Pac,ac

Leave on regular trains of September
2zth and 25th: return by September
18th: round trip. $500. Popular excur-
sion for Tahoe City leaves September
frip. $50. See agents Southern Pa
cffc. Ticket Offices. Flood Building.
Market street Ferry Depot, and Thir-
'sAenth and franklin Streets. Oakland.s
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
WRIGHT A[ROPLANF
MAKES new MARK
Flies One Hour and Thirty-five
Minutes at Berlin With
a Passenger

BERLIN, Sept. 1s.-Orville Wright
made a new record today at the Tenn
pelhof field for sustained aeroplane
fight with a passenger. He remained
in the air one hour and 35 minutes,
Captain Englehart He broke
his own record made July 27, when he
stayed up with a passenger for one
hour and IL minutes
Orville Wright announced today that
he would attempt to surpass the ex-
listing records for sustained flight in
an aeroplane.
The present record for an endurance
flight was made a Rheims, France
August 81 by Henry Farman. who re-
NAMED in the air hours, IA min
utes and 26 2-5 seconds, covering in
that time 1896 miles.
Falls in Sea, but Wins Prize
OSTEND, Sept 1s.-Louis Paulhan,
the French aviator. flying in Voisin
biplane here today, won prize of
s5 000 He covered 73 kilometers
(451- miles, in one hour, at an alti-
tude ranging from 24o to 800 feet.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19

Read the many good bargains in city
and country realty that are advertised
in today's paper on the classified
pages
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
Ladies' Trimmed Hats 80

We featuring ten dollar hats and giving very big
values that priceHa for which you would usually expect
pay third more-At 500 show hats type
that are always sold at hg her prices
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
In Our Millinery Section

believe showing this fall be avoraby compared
with the land especially in point Of style and oeauty1n
untrmmed shapes and trimmings you will find splendid
very low pricesArsc mllners to trim your
hat if wish it.