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Year: 1875

A PROTEST AGAINST A DUMPING GROUND OF THE


COMMISSIONERS OF DOCKS


The Commissioners of Emigration held meeting at
Castle Garden yesterday afternoon The ordinary rou-
tine Of business first transacted, after which
read several reports from the secretary.


II stated that the sum total of the bills paid dur
ing the month OF September amounted to $5,6sS rs,
and that the total of bills audited for regular
penses for provisions gas, &C. amounted to 4676 or
Commissioner Lynch then rose and stated TO the
Board that the Commissioners Of Docks had instituted
garbage dump at the foot OF 10th street and East
River, directly alongside OF the ferry communicating
with Wards Island, and that the point where largo
Of the refuse of the city was to be deposited
only 400 500 yards distant from the verpanck Hos
pital


He then proposed the following resolution


A PROTEST AGAINST DUMPING DOCK


That the President of this Board be requested to
municate with the Commissioners of Docks and inform
them of the injury that would result TO the interests OF
tho commission and Of the danger TO health IL the pro-
posed dock, for the dumping of garbage and refuse
tera is established at the foot OF 10th street and East
River the proposed dock being adjacent the ferry
Wards Island, which was established by the Commis-
of Emigration over twenty years ago. That
the President ask that the Commissioners Of Docks do
not locate dock for the dumping of refuse at 10th
street and East River. This resolution was unani-
mously adopted.


The President of the Board then announced the pres
Of several strangers, and asked them whether
they had any Information TO communicate One OF the
gentlemen at once arose and presented petition
signed by numerous people residing 10th street,
protesting against the garbage dump The petitioners
informed by the President that the Board would
do all in their power TO prevent the nuisance and that
the complaints received would be sent Immediately to
the Commissioner of Docks Several comm unications
read from physicians, in each OF which II was
stated that garbage dump at tho foot Of 10th
and East River exceedingly dangerous the health
Of the immediate neighborhood. Due note was taken
Of these communications, after which the Board ad-
iourned
Year: 1875

On Monday the people of this city
will elect their school Trustees and
members of the City Council. Only
half of each Board are to be elected,
but those holding the balance of pow
er will control the public interest of
the city for one year. There is but
little said about the election in public
and we fear the people are not sufii-
ciently alive to the importance of this
election. Every citizen in Los Ange-
les has much more at stake in this
election than they had i'll the Fall elec-
ton, over which they made SO much
fuss. Our public schools, through the
effort of the old Board of Trustees and
teachers, have been brought up to q
high standard, and our city is justly
proud of the position we occupy in our
educational facilities. From what we
can gather we are inclined to think
that they are superior to any in the
State. We owe a debt of gratitude to
those who have had the control of the
public schools in this city, and IN to-
ken of our gratitude every voter should
be careful on Monday to cast his vote
for none but those candidates who are
in full sympathy with our public school
system. If men should be elected TO
fill the Board who are disposed to cut
down the salary of teachers, object to
building school houses, and do every
thing grudgingly, the glory of our city
will begin to wane. There are class
of men who always believe the cheap
est article is the best. We have no
quarrel to make with such men, but
we do not want any cheap school
teachers, neither do we want any jars
or schism in our School Board so let
every man see to it, that men of pub
lie spirit are elected to that office. We
do not want foolishly extravagant men
in either Board, neither do we want
any old fogies, but live, active consid-
crate men. These remarks were sug-
gested by hearing the remark made
that our public schools were of such u
character that they were destroying
the private school interest of this city.
This is Just what We want. We want
every poor child in the city to have an
equal chance with the ricblman's ch Id.
We hope to live to see the day when
every child raised in Los Angeles shall
have O good business education, and
we say it to the credit OF the citizens
that they have made q noble start.
Let us keep it up by electing the best
men.


b. L. PEEL.
Year: 1875

HOME is the sweetest word i'm the
English language and should he the
earthly type of heaven. The ideal
earthly home may exist in the hum


BILE cottage as well as the palatial
mansion, this earthly home being Gre
ated and consecrated by the influences
of love. The ship-wrecked sailor and
the wretched wanderer only dream of
home and when all earthly hope has
fled they can only welcome heaven as
u contrast to the miseries of this earth
Make home the sanctuary and all its
associations will be holy and its happi-
ness will only be exceeded by paradise.
Year: 1875

SOME of our property owners desire
the Legislature to pass law to pre-
vent irresponsible parties from COM
mencIng harrassing suits for the dis
turbance of titles. We understand
that certain parties make it a business
to hunt up any remote descendant of
Ponce de Leon, Columbus or other
early settlers, and lay claim to few
leagues of land owned by some wealthy
citizen. These suits always result in
heavy court costs, which of course the
plaintiff cannot pay, puts the defend
ant to the expense of employing attor-
neys, and in the end it is generally
shown that the claimant had not the
shadow of title. The Legislature, it
seems to us, might pass a law to put
the bar of outlawry on some of these
Rip Van Wrinkle claims.
Year: 1875

THE Farmers and Merchants Bank
Of Los Angeles has declared its usual
dividend, payable on the tenth instant.
In these times of depression all corpo-
rations on paying footing should pay
their dividends monthly as it helps
the whole community and smooth over
the interval between the financial
stringency now existing and the good
time which indications point to as not
being remote. The above announce.
ment will come as nice Christmas
gift to the stock holders and will in
sure the visitation Of Santa Claus and
Kais Kingle with ample stores to the
little ones.
Year: 1875

TAXPAYERS should go to the polls
tomorrow and elect proper men to
control the municipal and school
finances for the next year. The Coun-
Gil demands men of thought, men of
work, and not men who talk at and
for the lobby. 1t demands men of
common sense, who know how and
when to make Improvements. The
Board of Education should be COM
posed of men who know the value of
education and who will strive to make
our public schools the colleges of the
masses.
Year: 1875

BY reference to our special dispatch
es it will be seen that the Board of
Directors of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company have passed resolutions
to build the Southern Overland Rail-
road from the Pacific Coast to a con-
Meeting point East, for the land sub
sidy voted by Congress to the Texas
Pacific Railroad. This is move in
the right direction. While Tom
SCOTT is striving to get the endorse
ment of the United States Govern
ment to his expensive scheme of
trans-continental road, the Southern
Pacific Railroad directors come to the
front with Il proposition to build the
road merely for the land subsidy.
SCoTT's scheme would involve the
people in an expenditure Of several
hundred millions while the PROPOSE
tion of the Southern Pacific Railroad
does not involve the outlay of "a sim
gle cent. In Southern California we
desire all the railroads we can get,
but we have common interest with
the whole people in preventing an en-
dorsement of pet scheme of Tom
SCoTT's by which, perhaps, hundreds
of millions may be extracted from the
public treasury. By recent decision
of the United States Supreme Court
the entire responsibility for the credit
already loaned to Pacific Railroads
has been thrown on the Government
and it is the duty of Congress to calm
ly consider before throwing an addi-
tional burden on the people. No one
questions the capacity of the present
Pacific Railroad to do the business of
the country and the manner Of con-
Quoting the affairs of the road is with
in the control of Congress. No one
doubts Mr.. SCoTT'S ability as rail-
road manager and yet Congress will
not be justified by the people in an
unusual expenditure of the peoples
millions. No doubt very strong ef-
fort will be made in the Democratic
House of Representatives for an en-
dorsement of Tom SCoTTs scheme,
but we hope the question will be calm
ly considered. The nation is suffer
ing from high taxes, the result of
Republican misrule; an absolute nee
essity for the road does not exist, and
if built it should be done for the land
subsidy alone. The Democratic party
being in majority in the lower house
at Washington, will be watched close
ly by the nation, and on their wisdom
the success Of the party in 1876 de-
pends. Any reckless use of power,
any foolish expenditure of the peo-
ple's money, any addition to taxes.
will result in disaster to the Democ-
racy and we beg our representatives
at Washington to act like statesmen,
for all their mistake will be millstones
around the party neck next year.
Congress will have to decide whether
to loan the credit of the Government
to Tom SCOTT to the amount of three
hundred millions or let the Southern
Pacific Company build the road for the
land subsidy.
Year: 1875

WE find public opinion setting quite
strongly in favor of DR.. WIDNEY and
Er. MUGENE MEYER for the Board Of
Education. Both gentlemen are large
taxpayers, have children in the pub
lie schools and their ideas of education
coincide with the liberality of the age.
We urge our voting population to see
that the election results in sending to
the Board of Education men who are
true friends of public education, on a
non-sectarian basis. We must have
schools, competent teachers and q lib
eral school system.
Year: 1875

WE are pleased to see so many COM
petent gentlemen ready to sacrifice
their ease and serve the public in the
Council and School Board. There
would seem to be no want of material
for the offices, and we are confident, in
any event, that faithful public SER
wants will be elected. We congratu-
late, in advance, the successful cam
didates, who will never know what
bad men they are until they get in
office and become every citizens SER
want. II the streets are muddy, l. the
streets are dusty; if the city is not
lighted with gas; if the city goes to
the expense of gas, Inexpensive grades
are not made, if the property owners
are taxed for them if comfortable
school houses are built, if money is
paid for building them-in any possi-
Bile event, on their devoted heads the
wrath of pnblic opinion will fall.
Year: 1875

At q recent dinner in New York, at
which no ladies were present, a man, in
responding to a toast on "Women,"
dwelt almost solely on the frailty of the
sex, claiming that the best among them
were little better than the worst, the
chief difference being in the surround
ings.


At the conclusion of his remarks, a
gentleman present arose to his feet and
said:


81 trust the gentleman, in the appli-
cation of his remarks, refers to his own
mothers and sisters, and not to ours"


The effect of this most just and timely
rebuke was overwhelming, and the ma
ligner of women was covered with con-
fusion and shame.


This incident serves an excellent pur-
pose in prefacing few words which we
have for long time had it in our mind
to say.


Ofall the evils prevalent among young
men, we know of none more blighting
in its moral effects than the tendency to
speak slightingly ofthe virtue of women.
Now, is there anything in which young
men are so thoroughly mistaken as in
the low estimate they form of women
not of their own mothers and sisters,
Jnduh ONOuY OuJ vi OluGESY WllO1 LuHy lOT-
get, are somebody else's mothers and
sisters.


AS rule, no one who surrenders to
the debasing habit is safe to be trusted
with an enterprise requiring integrity
of character.


Plain words should be spoken on this
point, for the evil is general one and
deep-rOoted. If young men are some-
times thrown into society of thought
less, or even lewd women, they have no
more right to measure all women by
what they see of these than they would
have to estimate the character of hon.
est and respectable citizens by the de-
velopment of crime in our police courts.


Let young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon
their entire faith in women. No worldly
wisdom, no misanthrOpic philosophy,
no generalization, can cover or weaken
this fundamental truth. 1t stands like
the record of God himself, for it is moth
ing less than this, and should put an
everlasting seal upon lips that are wont
to speak lightly of women-PackarG s
Monthly.
Year: 1875

A CLUB FOR WOMEN AS WELL AS
MEN.-The Albermarle Club in London
is an association organized on the prin-
ciple of ignoring sex, and giving to men
and women together the ordinary faeili-
ties of London club. 1t is the first ex-
pertinent of the kind. There is a club
for women separately already on a small
scale, but there has never been one
where the two sexes met on even terms.
1t has the countenance of some of the
best women and men in England, and it
begins with over 300 members, having
accommodations for 500. There is a sep
crate drawing-rOOm for ladies and a
smoking-room for men, from which la
dies are expressly Xcluded-though
smoking among ladies is not unknown.
The dining-rOom is open to both, but if
a lady likes a cup of tea in the ladies'
drawing-room she may have that. At
present there is nothing in the rules to
prevent member of the club of either
sex from asking friend of either sex to
lunch or dinner. The only security ta-
ken on this point is that the name of the
guest and host shall be entered together
in book open to inspection. The mar
riage relation gave rise to some debate,
/ hear, in connection with the question
of membership, but it was decided that
the club had nothing to do with it-in
other words, that wife might bea menu
Der without her husband, and the hus-
band, of course, without his wife. The
experiment is made in perfect good faith,
and the club is entitled-since they
would make tito fair treatment. But
it is difficult to see. how its life can be
long prolonged without giving rise to
scandal,
Year: 1875




TIE mystery OF the late great robbery Of nearly
SEGHu IRON tie Treasury Department is still as
deeI as ever. The uhle and the disposition Of the
money may not he discovered for days. but the
crime rclvrgs 70 tEe class which makes its
detection absolutely necessary. 1.-THE criminals
lot coon brought TO the bar Of justice, the facts in
the ease will stimulate others 10 perpetrate
similar robbery. I. seems Incredible that per-
son can walk into the TrcaSury Department and
cut ui Il with sE,u U2J Of Uncle Sans money, and
remain invisible, undiscOTerable for days aud
days. Last evening General Spinner still hung
10 the belief that the robbery was committed by
sUme clerk employed in the cash-roOn. He can
not bring his mini to believe that the money
was distracted by professional thief. Saturday
night Genera, Spinner was able to sleep little
having been reassured that all was being done
that could be by tie Government officers to cap
ture the tElef.


Last evening he was again very low spirited
and though with books ard friends and children,
his mind could not be diverted from the saddest
event Of his life. 1t is a blow under which this
venerable, honest and beloved custodian Ofthe peo
pies money reels and staggers 1t has clothed his
mind with melancholy be cannot dispeI, and be
ieels like one shpwrecked. General Spinner
takes the matter harder than he need to. In the
estimation Of the country he is wholly relieved OF
all blame in the premises, and it is by no means
extra hazardous to say that the people would
never permit him to make up single dollar OF
the less from his own pocket.
Year: 1875

be seen that the temperance people have decided
to col tinus thIir festival at Temperance Temple,
452 Ninth street northwest, for two nights longer
closing on Tue sdaY evening.


The proceeds OF this festival are to be devoted
to the purchase, by the Grand Division Of this
District, Of the capital stock OF the Temperance
Temple Association, thus securing to the Order
the lease Of the tine hall recently furnished and
ttled up by the said association, and now occu-
pied by the Howard and Rescue divisions.


The ladies who preside at the different tables
have provided an abundance Of good things,
which are served at reasonable rates, as all who
patToniZed the festival last week will willingly
testify. Ard the committee Of East Washington
Division, in charge of the supper table, promise to
to any who may apply, for the small sum OF
twenty-five cents. We hope that this festival will
receive he patI nsge II deserves.
Year: 1875

Human birds nests How shall we
make them pure, happy, and attractive?
Here is a question that pertains to the
welfare of every human being, and, if
rightly answered and practically Illus
trated, will prove an universal blessing.
The little elf toddling across the floor
for the first time receives applause which
inspires it with courage to try again.
Though such ''little darling as she is,
the looks, words acts, and surround ngs
have an untold influence upon her bud
ding mind. Would you plant a delicate
camelia in dingy, dark coalcellar,
among the debris, and expect it to
bloom? Yet many u human camelia
breathes an atmosphere made up OF ell
ements iouler than coal and wood dust,
and the darkness that surrounds it is the
darkness of sin and misery Can we won
der that it does not bloom-wonder that
the poor, blutnted, pinched sn-frosted
bud should droop, wither, and fall, NOR
ally and physically7 In those many
homes from which spring a great part Of
our population, how numerous the men
and women who have little more than
their human form to distinguish them
from brutesI Yet they are Gods pre-
cous sonls though clothed in the filth
and rags of blackest vices. Can not the
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made to penetrate the darkness that sur
rounds their souls, either by means of
simple words which all can understand,
by kindly visits from philanthropIc peo-
Pile or through public meetings conduc-
ted in some attractive way Such peo-
pie need to be taught the principles OF
morality just as children learn to walk
step by step. For time their old hab-
its will cling to them, weighing them
down as in the deep mire; but. if kindly,
rightly taught, their moral sense, grad
ually awakening, will see the way, and
the intellect, willing servant, will ban


sh, little by little, the darkness and deg
radiation of old habits, till, unburdened
from the clogs of sin, they emerge into
the sunny land of virtue


But turn from the lower strata of life
to the homes of the educated, the afau
ent. What lacking is there! Even
with closed eyes and open ears we can
learn much that pains us, First, there
is the bad example set for little ones


who see and hear and learn before they
are generally thought to have the neces
sary capacity Docs the mothers re
Year: 1875

Many young men launch out in life
determined to gain wealth and name
at single leap They wish to go too
rapidly, and, when they possess a good
thing, will not retain it. Were this the
motto of our young men, the world
would be better off today. But insta-
bility of mind is the fearful current that
undermines and loosens the various
ends of the branches of business. 1t is
the parent Of discomfort and final misery.
Fickleness keeps man constantly in
hot water; he does not stick to good
thing, and at length, comes down with a
crash


A 7. Stewart once sold Yankee no.
tions" from a common peddler's pack
Not thriving business to be sure, and
we would not advise you to follow it-at
any rate the young man of to-day would
consider it beneath his dignity to carry
such thing through the streets-but
Stewart stuck to it, and the world knows
him as New York's merchant prince.


Show US man who has prospered in
life by a continual shifting from one oc-
cupation to another, and we will show
you hundreds who have been dragged
down to misery and destitution by this
fearful habit. Show US man who turks
about the street corners, inhabits the
grog-shops, and at length fills drunk
ards grave with his poor, miserable, hu-
manity sickening form-show me such a
degraded wretch, and ninety nine times
out of one hundred we will point him
out as a man destitute of trade or voca-
tion of any kinda genuine 'hanger-on"
to humanity. Had this man legitimate
calling. he would not, nine cases in ten,
have been here. Not that vocation. or
something to do always saves men from
degradation there are exceptions to the
general rule.


But what we claim is that every young
man should be educated for some en-
ployment, and set to work at it, Itmat-
ters not how wealthy his pan ents may be-
or what position they may occupy, he
should ,.yays be engaged in some useful
business. Let him take recreation like
other sensible people; but let him have
the steadying influence of some honora-
BIS. occupation to help make man of
him>The education for this purpose
should 6e> Thorough and complete. 1t
should imparc~stability and earnestness
Of purpose as wef}>as knowledge-sf the
affairs of the world In othe8 words, it
should first teach him hillss1 business, and
then teach him to stick to it. For this
purpose there are no other schools equal
to business colleges, when conducted on
thorough and practical principles; and,
of these, Heald's Business College of San
Francisco, is the leading institution in
America-the largest most complete and
best conducted.
Year: 1875

proof for impoliteness have its proper
| effect upon the child when the mother
herself lacks good manners? Does the
fathers advice to his boy not to smoke
have the weight it should when his
breath, which conveys the warning words,
is redolent with the foul aroma? Are
the children taught to be benevolent one
( to another, to speak the truth, to be
cheerful, and to love one another? More
than all, do the parents make their chill
dren their study? Each one is o vol
ume, complicated enigma in itself
What variety OF dispositions, tastes,
talents, few children in household
present! and they should be studied,
directed, educated, each according to
his or her highest natural capacity.
Certainly they are not to be dealt with
alike-the precocious aspiring youth to
be disciplined with the sluggish NOPE;
the concientious, dutiful girl with the
combative, self willed, clustering boy.
Who but the parents are to discriminate
carefully between the coarse and the
fine, the lower and the higher, and
accord praise, caution, sympathy, or en-
couragement according to the occasion
and the object.


Furthermore, sound mind can not
exist without a sound body. Good





usefulness If the children have good
health parents should study to retain
it; if not, they should study to gain it.
Fresh air, plenty of sleep, healthful
food, exercise, and cleanliness are indis-
pensable to the happiness of the little
ones-large ones as we'll.


Amusements form the principal occu-
patton of children and should be direct
ed, for. at times. they may unconsciously
learn much at play. Every proper enter
tainment that can be provided should
be, that they may not, when grown up,
seek in the parlors, saloons, and gaming
houses to satisfy craving for amuse-
ment. Children universally have love
of stories. Some of the most nervous
and excitable may be quieted by this
way of entertaining and instructing
them. Often important truths, both
moral and religious, may be implanted
by reading.


If the angel of love hover over house
hold, administering golden truths and
religious pearls each tender bud that
finds lite there shall open in due time,
adorned with beauty of soul and fra
grant with the graces of mind that
shall make it meet for the future and
eternal happy home.