anaheim-gazette 1905-10-05

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 SUBSCRIPTION - 1.50 Per Year HENRY KUCHEL, EDITOR Six months...$1.00 Three months...50cts Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising $1 per inch per month The GAZETTE is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. The L. P. Fisher Advertising Agency, 425 Montgomery St., San Francisco, is authorized to receive advertisements for this paper. Our paper is kept on file in that office. The statement so industriously circulated by opponents of city improvements, that the machinery at the power house is worn and useless, is without foundation, as any taxpayer may discover upon a visit to the works. There is not in the state a neater or more cleanly kept plant, and the engines, dynamos, boilers, pumps, and other apparatus are in first-class condition. The quarterly inspection of the boilers by insurance inspectors are on file at the city clerk's office, and a careful perusal will reveal the entire falsity of this absurd report. Competent men are in charge of the works, and satisfactory service is being rendered. It is not that the machinery is "worn out," as one of the opponents of improvements expresses it, but that the city has outgrown the plant, water as well as lighting service. If there were no further Recently we had to erect a new schoolhouse to accommodate the increasing number of school children. Now we have to expand our electric light and water service to meet constantly increasing demand for those utilities. The city credits its electric system with $2,436 annually for street lighting. With the installation of municipal gas works the city will credit the power house with $3,000 for fuel. It costs the city the sum for fuel according to the contract now in force. The city has paid as high as $4,000 annually for fuel, the price of oil varying by the open market. Here we have $5,436 which the city would have to pay private corporations for this service. This amount represents the profits of electric light and gas, in the event that prices to consumers for those commodities shall remain the same as not charged by the municipality. Los Angeles pays the Edison company $150,000 annually for lighting in streets. With the installation of its own municipal system where water from Owens river shall have been brought to that city, it is estimated the cost for street lighting will be reduced one-third and possibly one-half. That is municipal ownership. Municipal ownership would save Anaheim $5,436 annually in light and fuel. Shall the people take advantage of these or shall we pay it to private co- a careful perusal will reveal the entire falsity of this absurd report. Competent men are in charge of the works, and satisfactory service is being rendered. It is not that the machinery is "worn out," as one of the opponents of improvements expresses it, but that the city has outgrown the plant, water as well as lighting service. If there were no further demands for light and water, the present plant would answer all purposes, except for the fact that water in the city wells has sunk so low that adequate pressure in case of fire is lacking, and serious consequences might follow as a result. But demands for water and light have been accumulating for upward of a year, and it is to meet these calls for service that an enlarged power house is favored by friends of progress—as well as to afford better protection in case of fires. A glance at the city's bonded indebtedness may be of interest at this moment. In 1891, the city voted an indebtedness of $15,000 for the purpose of erecting a city hall, for installing an electric lighting plant, and for extending the water service. This amount proved inadequate, and in 1894, $7,000 more bonds were voted for the extension of the lighting plant. In 1896, $18,000 additional bonds were voted to further extend the lighting and water plant. These three bond issues amounted to $40,000; of this amount $24,900 remains unpaid. The city owns its city hall, power house, water and light distributing system, oil wagons, fire hydrants, horses, mules, harness, etc., valued at $46,876. Nor will the machinery at the power house be discarded in the event the new improvements carry. $40,000; of this amount $24,900 remains unpaid. The city owns its city hall, power house, water and light distributing system, oil wagons, fire hydrants, horses, mules, harness, etc., valued at $46,876. Nor will the machinery at the power house be discarded in the event the new improvements carry. It being all in good order, much of it can be used, especially the new boiler recently installed. Of course the old tanks and frames, as well as other out-of-date paraphernalia, will be replaced by new. Material, and unavailable parts of the plant will be sold. When these first bonds were issued, the assessed valuation of the city was $518,822. Now it is $647,226, an increase of 25 per cent. It is now purposed to vote $69,000 for the erection of a new power house, to include water and electric light service and a gas plant. Anaheim has associated with municipal ownership for ten years and her experience has been satisfactory and profitable in every way. It is too late in the day for chronic objectors to set up a howl against public improvements. The city is advancing more rapidly than ever before. More people are coming here in search of homes. Advocates of municipal ownership at Santa Ana are discuss the question of issuing bond the amount of $110,000 for erection of a city gas and elec lighting plant; $50,000 to be gas plant and $60,000 for ele lights. Santa Ana now open to erect a new accommodate the instruction of school children. expand our electric service to meet the reasing demand for its its electric syssion annually for street installation of works the city will house with $3,000 costs the city that according to the contence. The city has $4,000 annually price of oil varying in it. Here we have the city would have corporations for this amount representing electric lights event that prices for those commodinals the same as now municipality. Los the Edison company will for lighting its installation of electric system when rivers river shall have that city, it is essert for street lighting one-third and position. That is municipal municipal ownership aheim $5,436 and fuel. Shall advantage of this, it to private cor- successfully a municipal water plant, but a recent issue of $60,-000 for an electric lighting plant was cancelled by the city trustees. The Edison company contested the validity of these bonds in the superior court, but the validity of bonds was upheld by Judge West. Subsequently, by the influence of the Edison Company, the city trustees cancelled the issue. Friends of municipal ownership at once took up the work of circulating petitions calling for another election to vote bonds for an electric light and gas plant. Six hundred sixty-nine signatures were obtained to this petition, and the same was presented to the trustees at their meeting on Monday evening. The trustees instructed the city attorney to prepare the official call for the election, and the same will be proceeded with. Advices from Santa Ana are to the effect that there is no doubt the citizens will vote in favor of the improvements. Here's an instance of the econoomy of municipal ownership. The city hall, erected in 1891 at a cost of $3,500, makes necessary tax payments of $210 per year. The city secured a substantial and serviceable building, at a low rate. If the building were to be rented from private owners, at least $50 per month would be charged. The hall houses the fire department. short on hotel action. A good first-class the urging needs of our local capitalatter up and give it consideration. New sites are in contemby local capital, needed more than a million. The throngs of pouring into Los avading the outlying of accommodations. There is not a city in Southern Calitic is paying well. A will pay from the this time the one in the town. local water works have the city treasury durten years a total survey. This amount, once of the surplus of the electric lights, (1), in making immute service; [2], uppeets, and [3], disrants drawn against and. The water rate over 100 cubic feet, gallons. The minirate is $1.00, which is the right to use of water per month household, upon lawns purposes. This rate, is sufficiently reasient time, and no recompleted although omy of municipal ownership. The city hall, erected in 1891 at a cost of $3,500, makes necessary tax payments of $210 per year. The city secured a substantial and serviceable building, at a low rate. If the building were to be rented from private owners, at least $50 per month would be charged. The hall houses the fire department, city jail, council room, and offices for the various municipal officials. The rental would amount to $600 per year, yet it now costs us $210 in interest payments, a saving of $390 per year. How much has this amounted to since the erection of the building? Do we hear anyone saying anything about the building paying for itself? Our water and lighting system has resulted in giving Anaheim the cheapest insurance rates on the coast. Thousands of dollars are saved annually by the citizens of the community, and all on account of the municipal water and electric lighting service. This service we would expand and improve, so that mains may be laid to the outlying parts of our rapidly growing city. Dollar gas and ten-cent electric light go hand in hand with this roseate state of things. If you favor progress and economy, you are for municipal ownership every time. How California Fruit is Marketed "Where all this fruit goes and how it reaches the masses has some interesting phases. It is here that the pushcart plays its part. There are a few pushcarts in San Francisco, but compared to the New York genus they are a rarity. Here pushcarting is a well-developed industry, and on the East Side you can buy from these stores on wheels almost everything, from shoes to Dill Pickles. But that part of it is another story. In the fruit trade there The water rate over 100 cubic feet, gallons. The miniature rate is $1.00, which bears the right to use of water per month in household, upon lawns and purposes. This rate, is sufficiently real-time, and no re-templated, although made when the en-house gets in run-off of the country to the reports of the succession of municipal Los Angeles proposes municipal lighting Ana is so well pleased with water that it will soon install a city electric light plant. Other California towns are have already adopted Chicago, New York and cities are discussing ship of street railroads public utilities. Let us go on. Of municipal owner- Ana are discussing of issuing bonds in of $110,000 for the city gas and electric it; $50,000 to be for a total $60,000 for electric Ana now operates "Where all this fruit goes and how it reaches the masses has some interesting phases. It is here that the pushcart plays its part. There are a few pushcarts in San Francisco, but compared to the New York genus they are a rarity. Here pushcarting is a well-developed industry, and on the East Side you can buy from these stores on wheels almost everything, from shoes to Dill Pickles. But that part of it is another story. In the fruit trade there are hundreds of pushcarts engaged in peddling, and the great bulk of the fruit they sell comes from California. Most of the pushcart dealers are Greeks and Italians. Some own their outfits and buy their fruit direct from the wholesalers: others are under the domination of 'padrones,' who buy their fruit at wholesale, dole it out to their flocks and exact a large share of their profits. Many of the pushcarts are rented from one man who owns scores of them and houses them in a big pushcart stable on the East Side. And it is by means of this humble pushcart that an enormous quantity of California fruit is sold to the people. The small-fry hucksters are not alone on the East Side; they are on Broadway, uptown, everywhere, but it is in the districts of the poor that they thrive best, especially among the foreign quarters. Many of the Italian and Mediterranean foreigners of the East Side have used fruit as a regular article of diet all their lives, and during the hot weather, when the 'people of the abyss' are suffering and dying, it is fruit—California fruit from the pushcarts—that feeds them and helps keep them alive. "From Hester street to Fifth avenue is a far cry, and the millionaires' California fruit does not come from the pushcart. It is the expensive, exclusive fruiter who supplies Mr. M. These high-class dealers are commonly on the lookout for the pick market. Even after buying that of the fruit it is carefully culled and otherwise prepared to epicurean and jaded tastes. It repacked in attractive form, when Mr. Millions sees it, if he sees it packed, it is as much a beauty as human ingenuity can it. And likewise the check which Mr. Millions foots the best things of beauty, to the least. "Then there is the middle grade retail fruit dealer. The many of these in New York, proportion of out-and-out fruits small compared to those of San Francisco. The prevailing species tailer is the 'green grocer,' whose fruit in addition to groceries aden truck. "There are a great many riots the popularity of California Georgia pours tons of peach Always Reliable Fall Millinery Opening Will take place Saturday, Oct. 14, and the Following Days.... An enlarged Millinery Department will be in of Mrs. H. Steward, a milliner of wide exception in the large cities of the east, which enables turn out highly artistic work, at prices away asked by city milliners. I hope to see you during these days in our likely modernized store, to show you the latest in Millinery and Dry Goods. HER & FALKENSTEIN Where Quality Counts. The best gas stove on the market. The most economical and best cooker and baker. Buy no other on the market. The most economical and best cooker and baker. Buy no other If you roasting the cook as well as the food? to avoid doing this is to discard that old wood install a good gas range. The particular gas range we want you to buy is the DETROIT JEWEL. A. Dickel Sofe Agent Take the Washboard into the Furnace And Save Your Temper SEE THE NEW Scott's Rapid Steam Washer FRED DYCKMAN, Agent for North of P. O. Anaheim, Cal. Everything You Want In useful as well as Ornamental Novelties, Souvenir Postal Cards, Books, Magazines, and Stationary. My Candy stock is the finest and most complete. See In useful as well as Ornamental Novelties, Souvenir Postal Cards, Books, Magazines, and Stationary. My Candy stock is the finest and most complete. See Jos. Helmsen supplies Mr. Millions. class dealers are constantworkout for the pick of the men after buying the pick it is carefully culled, cleanwise prepared to please and jaded tastes. It is then attractive form, so that Millions sees it, if he ever had, it is as much a thing of man ingenuity can make likewise the checks with Millions foots the bills are beauty, to the payee at there is the middle ground— fruit dealer. There are cases in New York, but the of out-and-out fruit stores is reared to those of San Franprevailing species of re- ‘green grocer,’ who sells tition to groceries and garare a great many rivals for quality of California fruit. ours tons of peaches into New York, many of them equal to the westerners; New York state tries to compete on grapes; Florida has a heavy orange trade, and Porto Rico is trying to get into the citrus market; Sicily still sends thousands of lemons, and other sections all ship their specialties. But as long as California growers and shippers keep up the superior grade of quality and packing of their general fruit output to New York, it seems likely that California will remain as far in the lead in this line of industry as it is in many others.—New York Fruitman’s Guide. MONEY TO LOAN On ranch property. Apply to Howard & Spake. FOR SALE—Walnut wood, $3 50 per cord on ranch. Wm. Crowther. WANTED—Honest, reliable young man to work on ranch. Best of wages. Apply at Wm. Crowther’s ranch.