anaheim-gazette 1909-06-17

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.50 Per Year Six Months.....$1.00 Three Months.....50 Cts The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Has the Largest Circulation PRESIDENT TAFT AND CONGRESS Will President Taft be able to avoid a quarrel with Congress? Speculation has been rife as to whether President Taft would have the courage of his convictions and veto a bill which does not carry out his pledge of revision downward, and from out the chaos of doubt and uncertainty comes the voice of his Secretary of the Treasury: and in the circumstances the significant utterances of the Secretary must be taken as a message from the President himself. "This administration will be conciliatory if you do not ask it to give up a principle or to go back on its promises. Neither of these things will it do. It will stand by its policies," said Mr. MacVeagh. Again, 'and you and I must agree—for we cannot escape the conclusion—that it might become at any time the duty of any great party leader to create for his party a new majority and a new control." Referring to the President's disposition to respect the rights and privileges of Congress and to meet everybody half way, Mr. MacVeagh continues, that this is 'a disposition which can be interpreted only as a statesmanlike conciliation and a grave menace to their physical being and the causes, for the part assigned for the disability, tive eyesight and a pathological dition of the valves of the heart seem to bear out this verdict. ever the cause, and Secretary has already instituted a vigorous vestigation of the conditions and napolis, they should be corrected at once. MILLIONS OF CROSS TIE Purchased by the Railroads for construction of Roadbeds in 1904. Washington, June 11.—During year 1908, the steam and electric railroads of the United States chased more than 112,000,000 ties, costing, at the point of purchase over $56,000,000, an average of cents per tie, according to state just made public by the Bureau of the Census in cooperation with United States Forest Service. was some 40,000,000 ties less than quantity purchased in 1907, when total was approximately 153,700 the highest ever recorded. The creased purchases in 1908 were course, chiefly due to the bus depression which affected every industry. This forced most roads to purchase only the ties we were absolutely essential for renewal and heavily cut down the purc for new track. In 1908 only 7,433 cross-ties were reported as purc ed for new track as against 233,000 in 1907. Of the total number ties purchased for all purposes, steam roads took approximately ninety-four per cent, leaving about per cent for the electric roads. It is very interesting to note wide range of woods used for ties. The preliminary report by Census Bureau lists separately five we cannot escape the conclusion—that it might become at any time the duty of any great party leader to create for his party a new majority and a new control.” Referring to the President’s disposition to respect the rights and privileges of Congress and to meet everybody half way, Mr. MacVeagh continues, that this is ‘a disposition which can be interpreted only as a statesmanlike conciliation and which it would be a fatal mistake to consider as a change of actual policy or purpose.” Surely these utterances are a message to the people of the United States that President Taft will stand by his guns—for the higher ideals of the people and the progress of the nation as a whole. It can hardly be contended that the present tariff bill is in harmony with the President’s promises, nor with the platform on which he was elected. Will the party leaders in Congress whose ideals are known in Congress to be so diametrically opposed to those of the President, see the error of their ways and in conference make all necessary concessions and modifications, or will they come to open rupture with President Taft? SOMEWHAT PREMATURE The somewhat sensational reports telegraphed from Montreal that the Canadian government purposes to construct a navy, and that a number of the smaller vessels are to be built at Collingwood, on Lake Ontario, are somewhat premature. According to officials in Ottawa the report appears to be based on the fact that some time last fall the Canadian government called for bids for the construction of two small cruisers to be used on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in protecting the fishing fleets, and that the Collingwood ship building concern submitted the lowest bids. The contracts were not awarded and the matter has been in abeyance ever since. If it is decided to build these cruisers, a satisfactory understanding with the United States would be reached, unquestionably, as there could be no possible objection to the construction of such small cross-ties were reported as purported for new track as against 23,000 in 1907. Of the total number ties purchased for all purposes, steam roads took approximately twenty-four per cent, leaving about one per cent for the electric roads. It is very interesting to note a wide range of woods used for cross-ties. The preliminary report by Census Bureau lists separately five classes or species. Of these the oak are now and have always been by the most important. The oak amounted to more than 48,000,000 forty-three per cent of the total quantity purchased. Next to these raised the southern yellow pines, with 500,000, or nineteen per cent of total. It will be seen that the oak and southern pines combined fished nearly three-fourths of all ties bought by the railroads year. Cedar and chestnut supplied more than 8,000,000 ties each, Douglas fir nearly as much. Above 4,000,000 tamarack ties were purchased, nearly 3,500,000 cypress ties, and in round numbers, 3,000,000 each western pine and hemlock. Redwood white pine, lodgepole pine, gum, be spruce and several other woods were used in smaller quantities. While the oaks, and particularly white oaks, have always been preferred woods for cross-ties and still form a large proportion of the total, the increasing prices which roads have had to pay for satisfaction oak ties are forcing them look more and more for substitute This accounts in part for the great variety of woods reported. Whole oak, untreated, makes a tie which gives excellent service for many years but it has been found possible take woods which naturally are durable, give them a treatment where either creosote or zinc chloride, which will prevent decay, and thus get much longer service from them than oak be secured from untreated oak thieves Among the woods which have been most largely treated so far are the yellow pines, particularly loblolly pines Douglas fir, western pine, and lodgepole pine. This year’s statistics adds to on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in protecting the fishing fleets, and that the Collingwood ship building concern submitted the lowest bids. The contracts were not awarded and the matter has been in abeyance ever since. If it is decided to build these cruisers, a satisfactory understanding with the United States would be reached, unquestionably, as there could be no possible objection to the construction of such small craft to be used on the high seas. SOMETHING WRONG AT THE ACADEMY The Secretary of the Navy is not alone in being appalled at a condition at the Naval Academy which can result in debarring from graduation, because of physical disability, forty-three out of a class of a hundred and eighty midshipmen. And when it is recalled that last year, out of a graduating class of two hundred, eight or more midshipmen were rejected after the physical test, the most obtuse must reach the conclusion that there is something radically defective in the system at the academy. It must be remembered, too, that the members of these classes were subjected to the severest physical examination before being admitted to the academy, where they live, presumably, under ideal physical conditions, for four years. Some of the members of the faculty at Annapolis have expressed the opinion, privately, that the course of study is so hard as seriously to overwork the men, and to constitute durable, give them a treatment which either creosote or zinc chloride will prevent decay, and thus get much longer service from them than can be secured from untreated oak tree. Among the woods which have been most largely treated so far are the yellow pines, particularly loblolly pine Douglas fir, western pine, and lodgepole pine. This year's statistics adds to the list two kinds of cross-ties which previously had not been reported in sufficient quantity to justify listing them separately. These are gum and beech. The purchases of gum ties in 1908 exceeded 260,000, while but slightly more than 15,000 of them were ported in the previous year. Of the beech ties, the purchases in 1908 amounted to nearly 193,000, against little more than 51,000 in 1907. Those are woods which are distinctly suitable for cross-ties unless they are given preservative treatment. The increased use, therefore, is one of the many results of the progress wood preservation in the United States. For many years beech has been one of the principal cross-trees in Europe, where its value when given chemical treatment was long ago recognized. It is not uncommon for European roads to secure from twenty to thirty years service from beech cross-ties. Untreated they would not last long enough warrant their use at all. Fine Alfalfa hay for sale, on field or delivered. Ferguson ranch; Sunset phone 261. A NEWSPAPER FIGHT The town has been overrun for some weeks past with representatives of two Los Angeles newspapers which are grappled in fierce warfare for business. Competition is so keen that subscribers to one paper have been asked by representatives of the other to discontinue it and take the other. Evidence is not lacking that the man who would stoop to this unfair mode of competition has been taken at his true measure in a number of instances of late. The man who seeks to profit himself by this illegitimate method of soliciting business ought to get none. The average intelligent American wants none of it. The other day one of these chaps showed up at a farmhouse south of town and tried to work his plan: "Won't you discontinue the — and take the —?" "I wouldn't have your paper in the house," replied the irate farmer; "and I don't approve of your method of getting business. Get out of here." The safest course to pursue, after discontinuing subscriptions to either one or the other of these Los Angeles papers, is to take The Gazette if you do not already do so. Both these Los Angeles papers get their Anaheim items out of this paper, anyhow. CALIFORNIA PROGRESSIVE California took another step in its effort to promote the practice of forestry within the State, when Gov. Gillett signed the bill providing for the creation of County Boards of Forestry. This bill authorizes the county supervisors to appoint a Board of Forestry whose secretary shall be a CALIFORNIA PROGRESSIVE California took another step in its effort to promote the practice of forestry within the State, when Gov. Gillett signed the bill providing for the creation of County Boards of Forestry. This bill authorizes the county supervisors to appoint a Board of Forestry whose secretary shall be a trained forester. Such forester shall have power to enforce the provisions of the Act, and all lawful orders of the Forestry Board, and in addition is vested with the powers of a peace officer to make arrests for violation of the law. The County Board of Forestry is granted exclusive power to decide upon the variety, character and kind of trees, hedges and shrubs that shall be planted upon county roads, highways, grounds and property, and to determine all questions respecting the pruning, cutting and removal of all trees, hedges and shrubs, and the extent of and manner in which such work shall be done. A violation of any of the provisions of the Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor. A special fund was also created to be made up of any penalties incurred through a violation of the provisions of the Act, and all moneys thus received shall be available to cover the expenses of the Board. This law was the direct result of the work accomplished by Riverside County, which has for some time maintained a paid forester to look after the setting out and caring for trees within the county. The results obtained in that county were so satisfactory that it was thought desirable to extend the scope of the work to other localities. CYNICAL VIEW OF TRIAL BY JURY EXPLAINED "The' Allen," said a New York politician, "took a cynical view of mankind. For one thing, he did not believe in trial by jury. Humanity, he would say, was too corrupt to admit of your getting twelve good men and true in a jury box together. Then CYNICAL VIEW OF TRIAL BY JURY EXPLAINED "The' Allen," said a New York politician, "took a cynical view of mankind. For one thing, he did not believe in trial by jury. Humanity, he would say, was too corrupt to admit of your getting twelve good men and true in a jury box together. Then he would tell his ham story," according to the Washington Star. "A chap, the story ran, was indicted for stealing a multitude of hams—some 600 or 700. "The trial came. The evidence against the chap was overwhelming. His lawyer leaned to him and whispered: "You are a gone goose. There is nothing for me to do. But the prisoner smiled and replied: "'Just you get up there, please, and make a speech abusing all the witnesses. 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