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The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

reports of men making insulting re-
marks about women, rude assaults and
what not, and in several instances with
what satisfaction have we read that
the fair victim made bold to puncture
the hide of the thug with hatpin!
Aye, that is one more good excuse for
this deadly weapon" We are told by
the powers that be that there are some
necessary evils" which the municipal
authorities must wink at and the police
ignore. VIII this wearing of hatpins
be one of them?
Sometimes it is more merciful to kill
a man outright than to scare him into
terror by the exhibition of an ugly
pistol or to disfigure his countenance
with acid elected from a squirt gun,
and there is no denying that the hatpin
can reach the human heart in direct
and easy manner. Shall woman be
denied the right to defend herself with
her own familiar weapon?
Not long ago it was reported that a
brave and resourceful woman was pick
ing poppies on one of California's en-
ameled hills when she heard the rattle
and hiss of a snake close by. With
true western spirit she pounced upon
1t with a dainty foot and as the reptile
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courses in the premises The farmer
may build a fly tight inclosure and put
all his manure in 1t. or he may haul
the manure away at least once a week
and spread it on his land. 1t requires
a week for the flies to develop and II
the manure is spread out on the land
they fail in the process. IL one or
the other of these methods were used
the country districts would be without
flies and far healthier than they are
today.
In the cities the disposal of manure
should be controlled by ordinance. The
regulations of Washington, ID. C.. have
been framed by government experts.
who are the greatest authorities upon
the fly nuisance
Next in Importance to the destroy
ing of the breeding places OF the flies
is the general proposition of the clean
ing up of premises so there will be no
germ centers where those that stu
exist may gather up contamination.
The most important part of this cam
paign is the right disposal of the fam
ily refuse. Where there is illness, for
instance. and the refuse is disposed OF
I'm such a way as to- be accessible TO
flies, that illness is nearly sure to be
spread broadcast. In typhoid fever,
for instance, the germs often remain
In the system for years after the pa
tient recovers. The famous case OF
Typhoid Mary is we'll known. she
being an apparently we'll woman. but
it being shown that typhoid followed
always in her wake. Because OF this
possible existence of the germs in the
body of any individual care should be
taken that the refuse from no person
is accessible TO fies-
The final step lies in excluding flies
from the house A window without
a invitation to
disease through flies. They contami-
nate the dishes, the food. the babyS
nipple, the very hands and face of the
Individual. 1t is unsafe to let them
in. Yet the screens are not SUFFICIENT
protection. for the resident in a fly
proof house may be contaminated
while walking or driving in the street.
The all inclusive campaign is neces-
sity in every community.
Flies in the house may be killed by
heating a shovel or some such article
and dropping 90 drops of carbolic
acid on it. The vapOr kills the flies.
A cheap and perfectly reliable fly
poison not dangerous to human life Is
biclorate of potash in solution. Dis
at any drug store. in two ounces Of
water and add a little sugar. Place
in shallow dishes and distribute about
the house.
A spoonful of formaldehyde in a
quarter of a pint of water is the new
est and best and cheapest of them all.
1t will kill all the flies. To quickly
clear a room where there are many
flies burn pyrethrum powder. This
stupefies the flies and they may be
swept up and burned.
Any of these acts may save life and
a combination of them all would re-
suit in the saving Of thousands every
year and greatly improved general
condition OF health
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
THE T12ACNeS THE fly
LEAVES WHEN HE C9SAWAt

Where do the flies go In wInrer?' The
question is still barely answerable. 1t
is almost impossible to find fly in
March, yet there are billions in Sep-
tember. Here Is ,he story of it:
The cold of the winter kills off the
great mass of the flies. Inestimable
quantities of them perish ignomin
iously. They all seem to have disap-
peared. There is, however, an occa-
sional individual that tucks himself
away in a snug corner of the garret
rafters down in the furnace room
and succeeds in keeping alive. There
is an occasional manure pile that is
kept warm by fermentation and here
the embryonic flies live. When the first
warm days come the fly awakas and
finds itself an isolated Robinson Crusoe
in a world almost unpopulated with it's
fellows Its instinct is to go forth
and multiply, for upon this capacity
depends the existence of all It's kind.
The fly lays 120 eggs in a manure pile.
In 10 days these eggs are mature and
there are 120 flies ready to reproduce
themselves. Each of these produces
120 offspring 20 days from the first be-
the same productive power. These
breed 1,72S,000 in another 10 days and
200, 100000 at the end of a month The
multiplication goes on for five months
and at the end of that time the family
has grown Incredibly. 1t makes no diff
ference where the flies go in winter so
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squirmed in quite an alarming fashion
the daring lady transfixed his deadly
head with a hatpin.
But then there are uses and abuses
OF everything material, whether it be
strict moral laws, special privileges Or
hatpins; and the abuse of this article
of many practical virtues may but
hasten on the wrath of the police de-
partment, with its sequel-courts and
jails.
The police admit the hatpin to be a
deadly weapon, but, as one Beau
Brummel of the force declared: IF the
ladies merely use the elongated in
strument as a hat fastener, microbe
killer and vag slayer, the ordinance
may not be enforced" Notice he said
may"
Therefore, use your hatpins with dis
cretion!
Recently one of the hundreds of poor
devils who have been stabbed in the
eye by hatpin in the bonnet of
lovely dame applied to the supervisors
for redress. Pass an ordinance, do
something to check this hatpin nui-
sance!' he cried. They are growing
inch by inch, until they will soon be-
come the size of swords and cut side
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placed to the credit of the flies. They
shook the bottle, thus washing the
flies. Then the water was analyzed. 1t
was found that each fly had contributed
an average of million and quarter
germs. 1t is almost inconceivable that
so small creature could carry so many
germs, yet a similar experiment showed
a fly in an uncommonly insanitary COM
munity to be carrying 100000 bacteria.
OF course all these germs are not OBJ
jectionable, but they will be If oppor-
tunity presents.
The germs that produce typhoid and
those that produce dysentery, which is
so fatal to children in the summer
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stable will produce vast numbers in the
cycle of a few weeks.
But the danger of the fly does not
come from the manure pile. To be
sure, it's origin does not tend to make
it popular as a promenader over the
food or face of the fastidious. Yet
the filth of the manure pile is not
Objectionable in comparison with the
other places that the fly haunts. The
fly goes everywhere Decaying dead
creatures have a fascination for it, and
the refuse of all the households round
about are its means of subsistence.
There is nothing unclean in a neigh
borhood that is not visited by the flies.
Then, unless due precaution is taken,
there is nothing so sacred that they
will not bring that filth into it.
Some scientists in Connecticut re-
Gently captured 414 common flies in
trap for the purpose of experimental
zion. They wanted to know how many
bacteria were on each fly. They put
the captives in sterilized bottle and
poured sterilized water upon them.
From this process they figured that all
.he bacteria found could safely be
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that the presence or the fly becomes
generally evident, and il is from rrrs
time to October that 1t takes its deadly
toll. 1t is at this time. therefore, that
the warfare should be carried into the
enemy's camp. 1t is at this time that
every householder should become ac-
quainted with the facts and see to it
that his premises are not producing the
creature that endangers his own family
and every other family in the vicinity.
The American civic association,
through its secretary, Richard B. Wat
rous of Washington, is leading in a
national campaign of education. 1t has,
for instance, placed moving picture
lecture with the great firms that handle
this line of entertainment throughout
the nation. During the season there
Will not be a hamlet in the nation that
will not be made acquainted with the
life history of the fly in this way. Mr..
Watrous also has stereopticon views,
which he is furnishing to all callers at
cost and which are eminently appro-
pirate for use by local boards of health
and civic associations. Scores of allied
organizations are touching the problem
in scores of ways with the object of
arousing the people.
And the life story OF the fly is worth
the telling. The fly has long been an
enigma. Yet it has been regarded as
nothing more serious than bother
some nuisance a score of years ago
the current how old is Ann query was
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long as one stays at home to start
things again the next year.
Flies breed almost no place except
in manure piles from stables where
horses are kept. The manure from COW
stables are not infected with their
young. But wherever there is horse
manure there is the ideal condition for
the rearing of great numbers of flies.
Conversely, wherever there are great
numbers of flies there is certainly a
manure pile in the vicinity. A manure
pile in an average degree of infection
will, upon scientific examination, show
the young of 1900 flies to the pound.
At this rate the refuse of an ordinary
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nerve to say anything. Their silence
was eloquent, however. and, poor man.
for the present at least must depend
on caution to save him from the elon-
gated stickers that protrude so reck-
iessiy from the skypieces of the ladies.
Fancy what it would mean If the or
dinance was taken up as written and
enforced! What if no beautiful woman
listed in the blue book could move the
obdurate supervisors? What If they
could not be prevailed upon to repeal
that ordinance? or If they did repeal it,
what disaster might occur if every
Tom, Dick or Harry proceeded to Sc
crete arms about his person. Possibly
an amendment could be composed pro-
hibiting the vulgar firearm and knife.
and specifically excluding the fascinat-
ting hatpin. But could it?
Now If the hatpin punched individual
should insist upon the arrest and pros
ecution of every woman wearing hat
pins. or armed with hatpins. what you
will. would not the police have the time
of their lives? Chance for new kind
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OF graft. say you. Possibly. At ball
with the flower of the city IL he would
only overlook the hatpins. What a
chance for "handout'' in a swell cafe
IL a policeman should interrupt a din
ing group! Wouldn't he have the
chance of his life to sit down in high
society and dine with his proposed but
not destined victims?
On every street corner you would see
Mr.. Cop chasing a lingerie or merry
widow. You might see him stopping
groups of pretty shoppers everywhere.
II the new city hall should be built
with the cash derived from the hatpfn
fund, 1t has been suggested by OoE
that the statue on the dome should be
that of dainty female wearing a
monster hat bestuek with monster pins.
while in her mouth and hands she
might be grasping a few more.
Before this story left the machine OF
the writer a dispatch came from Chi
cago stating that the city council had
taken up the case OF a groaning VIC
tim Of the hatpin and had passed an
ordinance which, while not barring
hatpins altogether, curtails them. The
ordinance reads that The point OF the
hatpin shall not extend more than half
an inch beyond the crown OF the hat"
A leading Chicago alderman said at
wire flowers, vegetables, animals and
birds. women's headgear is armed with
the deadly hatpin- II women care to
wear carrots and roosters on their
heads, that is their own concern and IL
can not be interfered with by the city.
but when 1t comes to wearing swords.
they must be stopped"
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THE ny is more dangerous
than the tiger or the cobra.
IT may be classed the world
over as the most dangerous
creature on earth. This in the light
OF recently acquired knowledge" Such
is the statement made by DR.. Daniel
d. Jackson, the eminent New York au-
thority.
The typhoid fly was the cause Of
FIVE times as many deaths in the Span
fsh-American war as were the bull
lets OF the enemy. SO states the United
States medical commission appointed to
investigate the subject.
Typhoid fever costs the nation
SS5O,OOo,000 a year, according TO the
report Of the national conservation
commission. third of this infection
IS fly borne. In New York city alone
1000 children die each year that would
have lived but for the fly.
Yet. s5 per cent Of the flies might be
kept from ever coming into being by
so simple a means as a proper dis
posal Of the manure from stables where
horses are kept. The frightful loss
from fy borne disease might be con-
sequently decreased by 95 per cent. The
remaining small danger might be
brought to almost naught by an in
telligent understanding of just the
measures necessary in preventing it.
Such is the opinion expressed by the
government through its bureau of en-
tomOlogy. Such is the conclusion reached
BY the Merchants association of New
York after an exhaustive examina tiop
lasting through years. Such is the con-
clusion reached by the American civic
association, which has as its object the
Improvement of living conditions the
country over. So strong has become
the conviction in the minds Of these
and kindred organizations throughout
the country that the fly is an overshad-
owing menace that war has been de-
clared against it and is this season be-
ing pushed as it was never pushed be-
fore. The nation is being called to arms
against the pest
II is just at this season Of the year
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
MERCHANTS WANT NEW
VOTE ON SCHOOL BONDS
Members of Pasadena Board of
Education Thinks Plan Would
Be Useless

PASADENA, May 1O.-The Pasadena
Merchants association at its meeting
last night went on record in favor OF
a resubmission of the high school bond
issue by the adoption of the following
resolution:
KNOWING that Pasadena is in urgent
and immediate need Of new poly
technic high school, the Pasadena Mer-
chants association offers its hearty CO.
operation to the board of education
when in it's wisdom it will resuomlt
tn the electors of Pasadena new bond
issue for the purpose of building new
high school adequate to the needs OF
the growing city,
The bond issue was defeated
April 20.
The board of education when advised
of the action of the Merchants asso-
citation took no action in the matter
Members consider that it would De
useless to reconsider the matter at
present
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
SAN BERNARDINO
Office at Brad's, s9s Third st.
Phones: Home $50; Sunset Main $50.
HAIRS IN DEAD MANS
HANDS ADD MYSTERY
San Bernardino Horse Trainer Is
Found Dead in Race
Track Grounds

SAN BERNARDINO, May 9.-Chas.
Cole, a horse trainer and jockey, was
found dead this morning near the sta
bles In the park of the Association race
track. 1t was at first supposed that he
had died from q hemorrhage. but at the
morgue it was found that knife
wound in the neck had severed the Jug
ular vein and that he had bled TO death
from this and other wounds.
After hasty investigation by Sheriff
John Ralphs and his deputies, Dan
Cummins, another horseman, was ar
rested and held pending further inVes-
tigation into the case. Tonight more
careful examination of Coles body
showed that clutched in the dead man s
hand were hairs which do not resemble
those on Cummins' head, and renewed
efforts are being made to determine
whether some person other than cum
minis is guilty of the crime.
BLOOD STAINS
All evidence at first tended to indl-
cate Cunmins as the guilty man. ON
his shoes and clothes we're splotches OF
blood and before the door of his room
were pools of blood and the marks OF a
struggle. During the early hours of
last night Cole and Cummins fought,
and Cummins received two black eyes
He went to his room and Cole to his.
Later Cole announced that he was sor-
nv for Cummins, and taking a wet
towel, started for Cummins' room TO
do what he could for the blackened
ewes. That was the last time Cole was
seen alive.
When taken into custody Cumm1ns
was recovering from night of drunk
en- revelry. He denied all knowledge OF
the crime. When taken to the morgue
he identified Coles body, and for
minute broke his pitiless attitude, say
ing: 'I wish to God l was by MS
side" -,r,~
The finding of the hairs in the dead
mans hand has given the case new
turn. and tonight, instead of being sat-
isfed that Cummins is the only GRIM
inal, the officials are baffied by the
mystery. a-,o,z ,oo+,,
The wound which caused Cole ueatn
was made with a knife which passed
through the jugular vein and penetrsa,t-
ed almost to the base OF the BRAIN Jun
or wounds were found in Cole s pody'
shoulders and wrists.
Cole came here several weeks aso
with a string of horses belonging 10
George Parker or Bishop, lnyo county.
Cummins has ben here only short
time.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
PASADENA NEWS NOTES

PASADENA, May 10.-Lemuel Mil
lar n winter resident of this city, was
accidentally shot in the hand yesterday
NV a. blank cartridge from rifle which
he was packing in trunk preparatory
to returning east. The Waddlng ana
some of the powder entered ms manu-;
An unoccupied cottage on Howard
nlace was destroyed early yesterday
morning by a fire of unknown origin.
The damage was $500:
Harold Rowan of Franklin avenue,
aged IA years, was bitten on both
thumbs yesterday while pouring hot
water down the throat of his pet dog
a. $50 pointer, to counteract the effects
of apparent poisoning. No serious re-
Suits are expected The dog will live.
The funeral of Charles Gardner late
of 283 Summit avenue, who died sun
da.v at the home Of his wife's sister
in Los Angeles. will be held this after
noon at 2 o'clock Mr.. Gardner had
resided for twenty-four years In Pasa-
dena, and at one time conducted a
dry goods store.
Hotel La Pintoresca has been closed
for the season after a successful run
during the winter.
The CITY commissioners yesterday &C
cepted the resignation of II. Q. wilson
as foreman Of the Mentor avenue fire
house. H. H. Hartley, A. G. Peterson
and Max Gartner were appointed as
extra firemen.
William Easterbrook inspector of the
federal census for the Pasadena dis
trict, has been presented with resolu-
tions by the enumerators thanking him
for courtesies.
The case Of P. Schapiro of Los An
geles. who was arrested Saturday and
charged with selling beer Illegally from
a delivery wagon, has been postponed
to May 19.
The meeting of the consolidation
committee of Pasadena, South Pasa-
dola and Alhambra, which was to have
been held tonight at Hotel Raymond,
has been postponed to Thursday night.
Indian rnotorcvcles. 30 W. Colorado street.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
MARRIAGE LICENSES

BREwER-ERIENB - Jerome Brewer,
aged As, and Minnie Erlenbach. aged ~;
natives OF Germany and New York; resi-
dents of Buffalo and Chicago.
LEPPERT-SCHILLING - Charles Leppert,
aged 80, and Anna Schilling, aged so; ma
tives of Germany and Illinois; both residents
of Los Angeles.
T1CHBIRK-J K-JOHNSON-Matthew c. Tichbirk,
aged 80. and Anna johnson, aged %; natives
of Minnesota and Colorado; residents Of
Foley and Longmont, Col.
HOUSEL-DUNN-Robert 8. Housel, aged 22
and Viola l. Dunn. aged IS; natives Of New
Jersey and California; residents Of Los An
geles and Fillmore
GOLDING- G-RORBACH-George W. Golding
aged 20, and Helen l. Rorbach, aged %; ma
tves of California and Iowa; residents of
Los Angeles and Minneapolis.
SCHICK-ALLERT-Adolp Schick, aged So
and Johanne ALERT. aged SO; natives of
Austria and Germany; both residents of
Los Angeles.
and Frieda Lampert, aged 20; natives Of
Kansas and Germany; both residents OF Los
Angeles.
MAYNARD -HEsSEI-Leo A. Maynard aged
"a, and Eva w. Hessel, aged 49, natives Of
Wisconsin; both residents of Los Angeles.
BOOTY Y-WINFIELD-Wll II. Booty. aged 49,
and Elizabeth Winfield, aged SO; natives
of Louisiana and Tennessee; residents Of
Los Angeles and El Paso.
BUJANDA-AXIAS-Rose Butanda. aged
21. and Juanlta Axias, aged Is; natives of
Mexico and Peru; both residents of Los An
geles.
Gates -ORTH-Charles E. Gates, aged 81
and Sophie Orth, aged %; natives of Texas
and North Dakota; residents of San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles.
LUEBANO-SOTO-T Luebano, aged %. and
Felicia Soto, aged IS; natives of Mexico
both residents of Ell Monte.
PRJ1ITT-T TT-THORNGREN-Harr A. Pruitt
aged o. and Mabel X. Thorngren aged 49,
natives of California and Iowa; both resi-
dents OF Pasadena.
ALLURED- -BEGGS-MaJor E. Allured, aged
25, and Gertrude c. Beggs, aged 25, natives Of
Michigan and Australia; both residents Of
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
RAIL ROAD TO PUT IN
ALARMS AT CROSSINGS
Santa Fe and Southern Pacific
So Arrange at Santa Ana

SANTA ANA, May 9.-Officials OF
+l,o Sonfbern Pacific and the Santa
Fe railroad operating departments
We're here this morning to inspect the
roads roads, in company with the city trus-
tees. AS a result of the visit the OF.
ficials have agreed to put gates in at
the Fourth street crossing and to es-
tablish crossing alarm bells at every
important crossing in the city where
they are not now established. 1t Will
be three months before the changes
can be completed as it will take that
long to secure and place the equip
ment,
The agitation over the death of
Lowell c. Travis, who lost his life In
an accident at the Stafford street
crossing of the Southern Pacific, led
to Threatened LEGISLATION.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
MEMORIAL DAY AT POMONA

POMONA, May O. Arrangements
have been completed here by the local
C. A. r. and w. r. c. for the OBJ
servance of Memorial day in which
company d OF the Seventh regiment
and the reglmental band will take part.
In the forenoon will occur the unveil-
ing Of the new monument given by
the members Of the W. r. c. in men,
ory of the unknown dead Of the Civil
War at the Pomona cemetery. The
principal address will be given by Rev.
DR. a. w. LampOrt. There will also
be the decorating of the graves by the
school children. Then there will be
a basket luncheon at Ganesha park,
followed in the afternoon by a camp
fire at which there will be numerous
addresses.