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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
PACKERS PLAN
THEIR DEFENSE
j. Ogden Armour Asserts That Co
operation Is an Aid Rather
Than Evil to the
Public
Associated Pressl

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-With the heads
Of all big packing houses gathered
here, and attorneys arrayed on each
side, the governments investigation of
the dressed meat industry is expected
to be ready for action when the fed
eral grand jury convenes tomorrow.
Whether the price of meat is artifi-
cially kept high is to be the contention
of the coming battle.
Subpoenas have been prepared to
bring before the jury witnesses from
all departments of the packing house
business.
The packers are ready for combat
"All I've got to say" said J. Ogden
Armour, sis that such cooperation as
may exist among packers is a benefit
to the public rather than the reverse"
Three lines of action have been out
lined. These are:
Criminal prosecution for alleged vio-
lation of the antitrust law.
Civil action for the dissolution of the
National Packing company
Contempt proceedings for alleged
violation of Judge Grosscup's injunc-
ton restraining packers from fixing
prices in restraint of trade.
Practically all the evidence gathered
by the government in previous in
vestigation, it is said, has been aban-
doned and entirely new data will be
utilized.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Jan. 23.
Word was received today from the
Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish
river. that the wrecked dining car had
been entirely removed from the river
and the first class coach was half out
of the water.
Bodies of fourteen victims were re-
covered. Graphing operations were in
stituted today to recover more bodles
from the river.
The following additional names of
dead were given out today:
PATRICK KINAHAN, Bruce, Ont.
r. A. BOOTH, Toronto.
FOUR -YEARS-OLD GIRL NAMED
PEES, Bruce Mines, Ont.
THOMAS AUSSANT, Blind River.
w. ]. ROBERTSON, auditor of Ca
madam Pacific railroad.
REV. MIR. CHILDERHOUSE, North
Bay, Ont.
70. q. BEMMELS, Lisbon. N. d.
HIRAM JOHNSON, Montreal.
ELDERLY WOMAN.
TWO MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.
A YOUNG WOMAN.
TFN-YEAR-OLD BOY.
TWFIVE-YEA OLD BOY.
JOSEPH KELLEY, Leavenworth,
Wash.
A diver broke through the ice on
lContinued on Page EwOl
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
FOOD COMBINE
FACING BATTLE
FOR EXISTENCE
Revolutions Have Been
Started by Less Provo
cation, Says Senator
Especial to The HeraId.l

HICAGO, Jan. 23.-Fully awakened
to the crisis which eenfrents them,
~ and demanding release from the
made living all out of proportion to the
net results Of their labors, wage earners
all over the country continued their
protests today against the meat trust
and its eXorbtant charges for the bare
of life. From all over the
country the cry of down with the
trust" came, and in nearly every city
throughout the length and breadth of
the land clubs and associations de-
clared boycott on meats until some
thing to change present conditions is
done.
Reformers and champions of the com
mon good have taken up the cry, and
tonight legislation is being urged in
many different states as an offset
to the grasping concerns which control
the price of meats.
Revolutions have been started by
less than the American people are suf-
fering now," says Senator Joseph l..
Bristow of Kansas. Meat foots up to
a quarter of the average househould eX-
penses, and it ought to be cheaper to-
day instead of dearer than it was
twenty-five years ago, by greater
economy in it's preparation and sale.
When L was a boy 25 per cent of the
carcass went to waste. Now nothing
goes to waste-not even the blood"
West Is Aroused
Senator Bristows words crystalline
the sentiment of protest in all part of
the country against the higher cost Of
living. Thus far the movement, which
first took form in actual boycott at
Cleveland, has met with most success
in the west. The east has been slower
to follow, influenced, perhaps, by a
widespread feeling among small deal
ers, and in the labor unions, that a
universal boycott, though effective as
a protest, would actually play into the
hands of the packers who, with their
control of cold storage houses and re-
frigerator lines, could carry their
product through a, prolonged boycott
though a 30-day cessation of trade
would put the small independents out
of business.
Against public clamor, packers reply
that high prices for meats are at
tributable to high prices of corn, and
advocate that the poor be educated to
eat cheaper cuts.
"These cuts are just as good and more
wholesome if properly cooked" says
Harold Swift of Swift & Co. "Prices
are high, but there is every indication
that they will go higher"
Actual consumption of meat is re-
ported by retail dealers everywhere to
have dropped sharply.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
LIBERAL CLUB ASKS
FOOD INVESTIGATION
Local Organization Adopts Reso-
luton Bearing on Various
Phases of the
Situation

The following resolutions, offered by
Edmund Norton, were passed by the
Liberal club at it's weekly meeting last
evening, at Mammoth hall. There were
but two dissenting votes:
Whereas, paragraphs No. 2S6, 'S7, 'SS,
49, go schedule G, agricultural prod
ucts and provisions (tariff act of 1909,
known as the Payne -Aldrich tariff law
show meat and meat products to have
restrictive tariff duties ranging from
7OS per cent to 1853 per cent, and,
Whereas, these duties act as bar
and restriction to the competition OF
Canada, South America, Australia and
other countries in meat and meat prod
ucts with the possible trust comblna-
tions in the United States, thereby
permitting the said trust combinations
to keep up the prices of meat and meat
products to an eXorbitant and prohlb-
tive point, be it, and it is hereby
Resolved, that we petition the presi-
dent of the United States, and both
houses of the congress of the United
States. that the said president shall, as
soon as possible, issue an executive or
der. backed up by a concurrent reso-
luton of both houses of congress, that
the first mentioned restrictive para
graphs of the said Payne-Aldrich law
shall be indefinitely suspended and the
ports of the United States be thrown
open to the free entry of the meats
and meat products of the whole world,
to the end that in so far as the tariff
protects the criminal and unlawful
combinations of the trusts in food
products, that this protection, which
acts as an associate helper in their
crimes, may be removed; and be it,
and it is hereby
Resolved, that copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the president of the
United States, to the congress of the
United States, and to all public and
civic bodies of the country reachable,
with an earnest request that they fur
ther the objects herein set forth, and
co-operate with the country at large
in its efforts to restrict the dangerous
power that is robbing the nation of it's
substance. and further
Resolved, that the resolution also
apply to paragraphs 27071-72-7S of
same bill, which places tariffs ranging
from 6.25 per cent to S0.05 per cent on
fish and fish products that come in
competition with meat trust products.
Resolved. that we send these resolu-
tions to the press and civic bodies of
Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
INCREASED FISH RUN
FOLLOWS BOYCOTT
Beach Cities Have Abundance Of
Substitute for Trust Controlled
Product-AlI Hands Declare
They Will Abstain
Especial to The Herald. ]

OCEAN PARK, Jan. pa well de-
fined movement toward boycotting the
meat business made itself felt on the
beach today A local newspaper ad-
vises it's readers to abstain from eat
ing meat for thirty days in the effort
to bring the butchers and packers to
time. On all hands declarations of in
tention to quit eating flesh until the
prices are lower are heard, and almost
in a day the homely salutation, "How
do you do?" has been replaced by
Have you stopped eating meat?"'
The entire supply of meat for the
beach cities comes from the large deal
ers and packers agencies at Los An
geles. The prices here are at present
several cents higher than in the city,
said to be due to transportation
charges. At the retail price quoted
today ordinary bacon was selling at
2S cents per pound cents higher than
at Los Angeles. The prices quoted for
other kinds of meat are in proportion.
There are not more than a half
dozen meat shops on the entire beach.
The proprietors of these shops declare
they are helpless to reduce their prices.
because in such case they will be COM
PEELED to quit business. They claim
they are entirely at the mercy of the
packers.
seemingly as IL sent py 1IoNlueHce
in time of need. the run of fish in
these waters is considered unprecedent-
ed at this season. Tons of fish have
been caught by local fishermen in the
past twenty-four hours, and the nu-
merous piers of the beach cities We're
lined today with hundreds of people
fishing to supply family larders and the
local market. .
Many persons have taken up fish
diet in preference to flesh of the warm
blooded animals, and they announce
they will continue it indefinitely. Bar
racuda and yellowtail are the chief
species of fish caught in the nets of the
professional fishermen.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
RECOVER BODIES
OF WRECK VICTIMS
Additional Names of Persons Killed
in Accident on Canadian
Pacific Railroad Are
Given Out

NAIRN, Ont, Jan. 23.-The ice-bound
Spanish river today began to give up its
dead. The first class car, one of the
four of the Canadian Pacific passenger
rain that took the plunge down the em-
bankment Friday afternoon, was raised
above the surface of the river this after
noon.
Worlmen crept into the wrecked in
terror and brought out several bodies.
The forward part of the coach was
badly demolished and it is not i'm
probable that some bodies flOated away.
Fourteen bodies were recovered today,
making a list of dead whose names are
known of 20 in addition to six unidenti-
fled women and children whose bodies
we're taken from the first class coach
today.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
MEAT ORDERS
FEW AT MANY
RESTAURANTS
High Prices Cause Drop
in Sales at Cafes and
Lunch Rooms
The Meat Strike
BY PAUL GYLLsTROM


GoOdby, tenderIoin and steak;
Some old cereal 1 will take.
Goodby, short ribs-pork that's lean;
Me for good old Boston beans.
GoOdby, hamburger and roast;
I'll take just plain buttered toast.
GOodby, Iobsters-oysters, too;
Milk and crackers now will do.
GOodby, bacon; goOdby, ham;
L may take taste of clam.
Goodby, quail and fancy fowl;
On such luxuries 1 scOwl.
Goodby, mutton-goodby, eggs;
Prices now are on last legs.
GOodby, liver and pigs feet;
Move along stack of wheat
Goodby, veal that's Dreaded fine;
Also meat pies, but not wine.
Goodby, every kind of chop;
Peas and carrots for my crop.
Goodby, fresh and picked fish:
Heap with cabbage high my dish.
Wen eat 'faIfa If we must,
But the meat trust we will bust.
m HAT the meat boycott. the scope
of which now is national, is beinl
Il keenly felt in Los Angeles is evi
deneed by the marked falling off il
the sale of meats.at nearly every loca
restaurant and cafe From present in
dications the persons who have under
taken to beat the trusts by boycottinG
a staple commodity will not wavel
from their purpose.
"I do not think we are selling more
than so per cent as much meat as WE
did week ago today" said restau
rant keeper whose prices cater to th'
laboring classes. although we have
increased our prices somewhat during
the past few months. no changes hav'
been made within the past week. I
is not the few extra cents to which m.
customers object as much as bein
held up by meat trust"
Nearly every restaurant man tell
the same story Eggs and vegetable
are more in demand than ever before
and should the pressure be continues
it is believed the prices on all kinds o
meat will drop several points before
the end of the week"
BID Cafes Not Affected
At the higher priced cafes and srills
however, the effect of the meat boycott
is scarcely felt The Angelus and Alex
andria grills and the Bristol, Levy''
and other cafes report no falling off il
the sale of meats. The higher priced
restaurants have not raised prices
within the past week, and probably
will make no changes for some time.
Arrangements have been completed
by the Central Labor council fo
Wednesday nights meeting, and it il
believed that large vote will be polleC
bv those present in favor of abstainins
from meat for at least thirty days
THAT this will seriously affect the Los
Angeles trade and that pressure viii
be bought to bear upon the whole
salers and packers by the retail deal
ers is admitted Just how serious an(
far reaching the effects will be- no one
to
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
Hamilton Scars Above the
Calm of Purple Moth
er'S Institution
FLIES AROUND BAY
Aviator Sweeps Out to
Ocean, Glides to Earth
Distance of 800 Feet
BY LEMuEL f. PARTON

q AN DIEGO, Cal, Jan 28.-If the
~ Purple Mothers theory of reincar-
~ nation provides for the re-embodi-
ment of prehistoric birds, devotees
walking in the philosophic calm of
Point Iona today received a heaven
sent fulfllment of their dreams.
Sweeping across the sunset sky,
skirting vagrant wisps of rose colored
cloud which overhung the oceans edge,
came creature which in the view of
the elect could have been nothing else
than a giant pterodactyl sprung again
into being as a revelation to the faith
full.
70 those who know not the white pill
Jared silences of Point Iona, it was
merely c. K. Hamilton, riding a Cur
tiss biplane, from the grounds Of the
San Diego Country club, but the pro-
sale nomenclature of the man and the
machine did not lessen the fact that the
fight was one of the most beautiful
and the most sensational yet achieved.
Files Eleven Miles
The aviator covered eleven miles in
his flight over the point southward be-
yond Coronado, eastward around the
anu DdCk " lllG BIOulAOS. IAiC lA5 5AAb
was the second of three remarkable air
voyages, Thea last of which was con-
cluded by a glide from height of 600
feet, which establishes a new record
for aeroplane gliding from height.
The first flight of the afternoon was
one of the most daring feats of avia-
ton yet accomplished. Hamilton COW
cred about fifteen miles in sweep out
over the ocean, skirting the Hotel del
IL Od HVinpr across TO
San Diego on his return to the Country
club grounds. The fight was taken in
the face of the heaviest wind which
Hamilton has yet encountered and the
crowds watching below were kept
breathless by the plunging of the ma
chine as it fought the gale.
After the first successful flight Ham
ilton met a slight accident in alight-
ing from a short trip in which he took
John F.. Greer, a san Diego newspaper
man, as a passenger. Two ribs of the
left nlane were broken in alighting on
rough ground, but the damage was
quickly repaired.
In his flights tomorrow Hamilton will
try for the altitude record.
Crashes Into Fence
Two minutes after c. f. Walsh, a
local inventor in monoplane of his
own construction, had crashed into
fence deeply lined with spectators. COM
pletely wrecking his aircraft, Charles
K. Hamilton, in a Curtiss biplane
which Glenn H. Curtiss used at Rheims,
France, when he won the speed prize,
left the ground and scared. skyWard
in the face of 3-mile wind
Although Walsh's machine was
smashed to pieces and parts of the
frame were hurled among the crowd,
no one was seriously injured, although
several were slightly wounded by being
struck by pieces of flying debris.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
PRISON OFFICERS INSULT
SISTER OF LORD LYTT0N
Lady Constance, Serving Sentence for
Smashing Jail Windows, Liber-
ated Before End of Time

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 29.-Lady Con-
stance Iytton, sister of Lord Lytton
who served week OF two weeks SEN
tence in Walton Jail under the name of
Jane Warton for smashing the jail win
dows, was liberated today.
Lady Constance was liberated week
in advance Of her term on orders from
the home secretary. She is in an eX-
hausted condition. 1t is said that she
has been forcibly fed since January IS
and has been subjected to gross insults
By prison officials.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24

Memsic and Picato rule as even choices
among fans who bet on results of
fights. PAGE b
Charlie Eyton signs up Henri St. Yves,
champion marathon runner of the
world. and John d. Marsh. Canadian
champion. for marathon race here
early next month. PAGE 6
McCormicks Shamrocks win second of
series of games with Trilbys for side
bet whitewashing colored aggregation
twice in two days. PAGE Z
Walter Folsom's Mischief II. wins both
dory races at San Pedro and now leads
for honors of second series of these
winter yachting events. PAGE 6
Rangers show great improvement at
soccer and easily defeat Exiles of
Riverside which team beat them at a
previous meeting. PAGE 6
Numerous amateur and semi profession
al games are played in Southern Cali
fornia, with several near-league
games resulting, PAGE G
lack johnson uses some remarkable
language in address to colored Y. M.
G. A. PAGE 6
Three leaders In National league meet
at Pittsburg to discuss game schedule
for coming season. PAGE .
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
Giving TOO EASY
IS RIPLEY'S REPLY
eral Extravaganza, Increase
in Wages and Too Much
Money for Trouble

SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 23.-The
extravaganza of the American people,
the general increase in wages and the
rapid increase in the amount of money
in circulation are the causes for the
present industrial commotion as out
lined by President E. P. Ripley of the
Santa Fe railroad at his home here to-
day. AS usual, President Ripley is
passing the winter months here with
his family. When seen today he gave
his views in regard to the increased
cost of living and the extensive strike
against the use of meat as follows:
'That is question on which econ
omists do not agree. I don't pretend to
be any wiser on the subject than any
one else, but as it appears to me there
are three causes that are closely re-
lated, and all are parts of a circle.
You can begin anywhere in that circle.
The causes are, first, the extravaganza
of the American people; second, the
general increase in wages during the
past ten years, and third, the rapid
increase in the amount of money in cir
culation, with $40O, 900 in gold being
added to the worlds wealth each year.
Starts at Wages
Suppose we begin with the increase
in wages, although you could just as
well begin at any other point in the
circle. This increase has affected all
classes of labor, and as the cost of
labor is a factor in fixing the price of
every article that we buy, it has oper-
ated to increase the cost of living for
every one, including the wage Garner.
This increase is due partly to natural
causes-the scarcity of labor, for in
stance, partly to combinations among
wage earners, and partly to the fact
that there is more money in circula-
tion.
For the wage earners themselves
this increase partly offsets the higher
cost of the necessities of life. There
with fixed salaries or those whose in
come is derived from revenues which
have not increased in proportion to
the cost of living.
But the paramount cause is the ex-
travagance of the people. We live bet
ter in this country than in any other
country of the world. The waste of an
American family would support many
a European family. This is a land of
great wealth, and it has been developed
in excess of the needs of the people.
Some day we must call halt and
learn to live more economically, and it
looks as though that time may have
come.
Blames the Telephone
Americans don't know how to econ
town never go to the grocery or the
meat market. They stay at home and
SContinued on Page xwol
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
1000 woRKMEN SIGN PLEDGE

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Jan. 23.-
Two thousand employees of-four glass
factories and of the American Sheet
and Tin Plate company today signed
a pledge to abstain from eating meat
for sixty days.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-24
FOREIGN

Additional names of persons killed in
wreck on the Canadian Pacific railroad
in Ontario are given and fourteen
more bodies recovered PAGE
Irish Nationalsts will hold balance of
power in Englands house of COM
mons, as neither of two big factions
will have working majority. PAGE l
Charcot and party of France who go
in quest of south pole are far south.
PAGE 12
Seine river In France still rising and
national disaster Is imminent PAGE 12
Rebel forces In Nicaragua makes attack
on outposts, but government troops
prove stronger. PAGE
American tariff rate does not satisfy the
German government. PAGE
London regrets action of China on Man
churian railway question. PAGE