anaheim-gazette 1909-11-04

A REPLY TO MILLS ON BONDS PRUDENCE DICTATES DEFERRING ACTION UNTIL AFTER STATE ELECTION Asphalt Paving for 140 Miles Will Cost $2,100,000, or $1,400,000 for Macadam, According to Experience of Los Angeles—Automobile Speeding Expensive Luxuries for People A number of the county papers published another article during the past two weeks from A. A. Mills of Anaheim in favor of the alleged good roads bonds. He thinks the county election for voting such bonds should not be deferred until after the state election on the $18,000,000 bonds, for two reasons, viz., other counties are not waiting and there is no probability of the state bonds carrying. Now because other counties are voting bonds is no reason why Orange county should do so. The good book says, "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished;" so no matter how many people support a foolish proposition, sooner or later they will all reap the reward of their folly. Precedents should be followed only when they are right, and no number of precedents can make the voting of the alleged good roads bonds right. As to the probability of the state bonds carrying, no one can tell how that proposition will result, any more than he can tell what verdict a jury will bring in on any given case. Since the taxpayers of the state authorized $2,000,000 bonds for a seawall in San Francisco harbor, in 1904, by a vote of 119,416 for to 26,335 against, we haven't much faith in their turning down a bonding proposition that of- ing the number of miles or cheapening the quality of the improvement. Now the foregoing is a full and fair review of the principal points found in Mr. Mills' article and shows conclusively that automobile speedways are expensive propositions; and that, even if the taxpayers want to build them, it would be prudent to wait until the question of state bonds for the same purpose is settled.—Orange Post. NEW MANAGER FOR EDISON Eastern Engineer Gets Responsible Position With Power Company President John B. Miller of the Southern California Edison company has announced the appointment of W. A. Brackenridge as vice president and general manager of the company. Mr. Brackenridge assumed the duties of his position on Monday, October 25. His connection with the Southern California Edison company is the result of negotiations which Mr. Miller opened with him last April. The new management committee of the company will consist of John B. Miller, president; W. A. Brackenridge, vice president and general manager, and R. H. Ballard, secretary and assistant general manager. Mr. Brackenridge arrived in Southern California a few days ago. His official connection with the Southern California Edison company took effect on October 25. He has leased the handsome home formerly occupied by Horace M. Dobbins, at the corner of Orange Grove avenue and State street, Pasadena, and will make it his residence. His national reputation as a hydroelectric engineer was largely achieved through his connection with the Niagara Falls power company. As engineer in charge of the works he had direction of operating the first in- 15,000 pages, the forty volumes of the printing will be designed to contain literature of all types that the wheels ged and the when such mons ted to be inflicted California Weekly. DOUBLE-BAR Boss-Ridden Conveni tirely Out It is commonl our new direct p ay with convention fact. Convention an important part. There are two tions which the law undertakes to nominate party ces to be voted tions. The other gates to party c held for controlling and declaring par second function of the first. Whoevy in power will ment and whoevy conventions w in power. Under the con formerly obtained principles was m didates were nomi date had an o beforehand upon was expected to ciples were such prove them he c The taxpayers of the state authorized $2,000,000 bonds for a seawall in San Francisco harbor, in 1904, by a vote of 119,416 for to 26,335 against, we haven't much faith in their turning down a bonding proposition that offers to spend the proceeds upon the roads of the entire state. It would certainly be prudent to wait and see how that election will turn out. The professor now admits that it will take 140 miles of the so-called good roads to connect every town of 200 or more population with other such towns in the county and with similar roads in other counties. He quotes S. H. Finley as giving the probable cost of a 16-foot macadamized road at between $5000 and $6000 per mile on an average. Mr. Loder, head engineer of the Los Angeles highway commission, is also reported as estimating the cost of 8-inch macadam, 16 feet wide, for the principal roads and 6 inch macadam, 12 feet wide for the less important ones at from $7000 to $8000 per mile. Taking the highest of these estimates Mr. Mills figures the total cost of his 140 miles of road at $1,120,000 or with the incidentals at $1,250,000; and he advocates bonding for the full amount rather than to cut off some of the mileage for the sake of lessening the amount of the bonds. Now, if we remember correctly the first estimate two years ago advocated about 80 miles of roads to be improved at a cost of about $3000 per mile or a total, including incidentals, of about a quarter of a million dollars; but, like Jack Falstaff's rogues in buckram who were increased in the narration from two to eleven, the length of the roads has been extended in the repetition from 80 to 140 miles and the cost from a quarter of a million to a million and a quarter dollars. It is so easy to increase the quantity by figuring, and it is necessary to give every individual an improved road in order to get his vote in favor of the bonds. However, notwithstanding this manifest increase, we don't believe the professor has reached the limit yet. The city of Santa Ana finds the cost of 5 inches of crushed rock and oil to be 7 1/2 cents per square foot and California Edison company took effect on October 25. He has leased the handsome home formerly occupied by Horace M. Dobbins, at the corner of Orange Grove avenue and State street, Pasadena, and will make it his residence. His national reputation as a hydroelectric engineer was largely achieved through his connection with the Niagara Falls power company. As engineer in charge of the works he had direction of operating the first installation of machinery. He organized the first operating force of this world famed plant, and made it a model of efficiency, which attracted the attention of electricians in every part of Europe and America. He continued in charge of the operation for a considerable period, after which time he confined his attention entirely to engineering work for Niagara Falls power company and private practice which at that time had developed to a considerable extent. In 1904 the governor of New York appointed him a member of the advisory board of consulting engineers for the improvement of state canals. The work is now being conducted under the supervision of the advisory board of consulting engineers. Mr. Brackenridge has had charge of some of the most important pieces of engineering constructing in the country. He has acted as directing or consulting engineer for some thirty water power development propositions, and ranks with the greatest hydro-electric engineers of the world. HI, THERE, YOU MARTIANS Is It Politics or the Weather That’s Alling You? Fresh changes of an extraordinary nature are reported in Mars by the journal of the British Astronomical Association, which says that the planet during September was nearer the earth than at any date since 1892 and in a favorable position for observation. The phenomena observed, says the journal, are altogether without parallel in the records of the past. Vast changes have transformed the appearance of Mars. A gloomy yellow veil has enshrouded immense tracts of the Martian surface, obliterating the markings, and changes now in progress on the surface of Mars are of exceptional interest in view of the theory developed However, notwithstanding this manifest increase, we don't believe the professor has reached the limit yet. The city of Santa Ana finds the cost of 5 inches of crushed rock and oil to be 7 1-2 cents per square foot and the same depth of crushed rock and asphaltum to be 11 1-2 cents per sq. foot. In a letter to R. J. Thompson of Santa Ana John Beyer, street superintendent of Pasadena, says, "I would not recommend putting on less than six inches of broken stone where loads from four to six tons are carried over it." Mr. Loder, head engineer of the Los Angeles highway commission, recommends 8 inches of crushed rock and oil, 16 feet wide, on the principal roads, as above noted. That depth of rock and oil would probably cost more than the 5 inches of asphaltum concrete, which is 11 1-2 cents per square foot, or at the rate of $9715.20 per mile, without incidentals. But we are not left to conjectures about the cost of these improved roads, for Los Angeles county let a contract three weeks ago for the construction of 23,131 feet for $45,-730, which is at the rate of $10,438.-56 per mile. Hence it is safe to say that real good macadam of the requisite width and depth, with all incidentals, will cost not less than $10,-000 per mile; and that fairly good paving for the same width will cost not less than $15,000 per mile. At those rates the 140 miles, which Mr. Mills thinks it necessary to construct in Orange county, would cost $1,400,-000 for the macadam, or $2,100,000 for the asphalt paving. Any reduction in these figures must come from lessen-and in a favorable position for observation. The phenomena observed, says the journal, are altogether without parallel in the records of the past. Vast changes have transformed the appearance of Mars. A gloomy yellow veil has enshrouded immense tracts of the Martian surface, obliterating the markings, and changes now in progress on the surface of Mars are of exceptional interest in view of the theory developed by Professor Lowell that Mars is inhabited by a race of living beings. He argues that the canals of Mars are works constructed by a dying race, menaced by starvation on a desert planet, to carry water supplied by melting icecaps on the poles to waterless areas near the equator and thus raise food. It is suggested that if the markings have recently disappeared and the yellow veil has covered immense tracts on the surface, there must have been some catastrophe on a gigantic scale or some cataclysm, such as dwarfs the most violent earthquakes known on our planet. It is inferred that the abnormal electrical conditions of the sun which, according to Sir Oliver Lodge, the noted scientist, caused the recent magnetic storm on the earth, have had a far more terrible influence on Mars. They may have unloosed forces, it is believed, which, if Professor Lowell's theory concerning life on Mars is correct, may have ended forever the Martians' struggle for life. RUEF'S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL After being bid on by a number of printers the contract has been let for the printing of the transcript on appeal of the case of The People vs. Abraham Ruef. It will contain about ANAHEIM GAZETTE 15,000 pages, the equivalent of about forty volumes of 400 pages each, and the printing will be upward of $12,000. The document will contain, in round numbers, 5,000,000 words, and the volumes, set on end in front of the First District Court of Appeal, will fully occupy Dr. Elliot's five-foot shelf designed to contain the cream of the literature of all time. Is it a wonder that the wheels of justice are clogged and the courts overburdened when such monstrosities are permitted to be inflicted upon the judge?—California Weekly. DOUBLE-BARRELED PRIMARY Boss-Ridden Convention Not Yet Entirely Out of Business It is commonly understood that our new direct primary law does away with conventions. Such is not the fact. Conventions are still to play an important part in our political life. There are two very distinct functions which the new direct primary law undertakes to perform. One is to nominate party candidates for offices to be voted for at general elections. The other is to elect delegates to party conventions to be held for controlling party management and declaring party principles. The second function is as important as the first. Whoever controls the party in power will control the government and whoever controls the party conventions will control the party in power. Under the convention system that formerly obtained the platform of principles was made before the candidates were nominated and each candidate had an opportunity to know beforehand upon what platform he was expected to stand. If its principles were such that he could not approve them he could refuse to be a candidate. SAVED BY A PANTHER. The Fierce Brute Proved a Good Temperance Lecturer. Governor Jennings of Indiana used to tell a story of his early electioneering days in which he said that a panther may be a good temperance lecturer. Colonel W. M. Cockrum repeats the story in his "Pioneer History of Indiana." The incident happened when Governor Jennings was traveling over the thinly settled hills of Dearborn county, electioneering for congress. He met a man with whom he was well acquainted, by name Tom Oglesby, who was just getting over a protracted debauch. Jennings began asking Tom about his political views. The half sober fellow looked at him and said: "Jen, don't you think a man just out of a panther fight ought to be electioneered in a different manner from this? I am just from the grave. I was awakened a little while ago by a panther putting leaves and grass over me. It kept this up until I was entirely covered. I lay still for awhile and then raised up and found the panther gone. I knew I was in danger, so I took my gun and climbed into a tree to see what the panther intended to do. "In a short time I heard her coming, and she had her kittens with her. Every few steps she would jump as if catching something, and the little ones would go through the same maneuvers. She kept this up until she got near to the bed of leaves she had covered over me and then made a spring on the pile. She looked just as I felt when I found that I was covered up for dead. She then started in to investigate the cause of my disappearance, and before she located me I shot her." Jennings, after hearing this, said: "Well, Tom, I believe I should treat you as one from the dead and that you should begin your life from this point. We were schoolboys together. I know you are a capable civil engineer and well educated, and if you cease drinking I will see that you have a good po- Dr. Adolph J. Petter's NatureAID (Just Natural) Magazine. Teaches how to achieve "Vigorous Health," "Honorable Success," and "Long, Happy Life," and how to cure all human ills, including rupture, deformities and all male and female weakness, yourself at home. One sample COPY FREE on request. Address NatureAID, 217 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, Cal The Best Cuts of MEAT Can be had here any time. We don't reserve them for a favored few and compel the others to take what is left. First come is first served in this market. We believe in giving everybody a square deal. Also in selling the very best meat we can get hold of at the prices possible. Try us with an order. CITY MARKET F. W. FLEISCHMANN, Prop. Odd Fellow's Bldg., Center street Sunset Phone 201 F. BACKS Undertaker Dealer in Furniture, Wall Paper Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils, and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies Corner Los Angeles and Chartres S LUMBER, CEMENT, BRICK ARDEN PLASTER MILL WORK Beveled Well Curbing Under the convention system that formerly obtained the platform of principles was made before the candidates were nominated and each candidate had an opportunity to know beforehand upon what platform he was expected to stand. If its principles were such that he could not approve them he could refuse to be a candidate for nomination. Under the new system the candidate will not know what his platform is to be like, or whether or not he can stand on it, until from two to four weeks after he has received his nomination. Voting constituencies are going to know what their candidates stand for before they nominate them. Suppose, then, that the conventions are so manipulated as purposely to make platforms upon which certain candidates will find it impossible to stand because inconsistent with pledges already given to the constituencies that nominated them. What then? Will the candidate stultify himself before his nominating constituency or disregard the platform of his party? We may be sure that men who make politics a profession will not fall of making the most of this opportunity to confuse the campaign of a candidate whom they wish to have defeated, and there is nothing easier than to manipulate a resolutions committee. This, in part, serves to show how important it is going to be not to overlook the convention feature of the direct primary law or permit it to default into the hands of crafty politicians. Besides, it is the first concern of special interests to secure control of party machinery no matter how small or inconsequential any party may seem to be. By virtue of possession of the executive machinery of the republican party in California, Mr. Herrin has been able to designate who shall fill positions on the federal bench and, during all the years of Mr. Roosevelt's presidency, Mr. Herrin was able, for the most part, to turn out of federal offices the friends of Mr. Roosevelt and to put in their places men covertly if not openly hostile to Roosevelt and his policies. We must look well to our conventions or the Southern Pacific's political bureau will continue to do exactly this under our direct primary system. Finally, some form of public primary caucus or convention is in THE STATE'S POPULATION Half Million Gain Since Taking of Last Census A remarkable coincidence is shown in the estimates of the population of California as given out by the state board of health and the state superintendent of schools, in that there is but little more than 20,000 difference. This variance can be attributed to the fact that the department of education based its figures on school census from figures received several months ago, while that of the health department is recent. Superintendent Edward Hyatt has given the population of this state as 2,018,553. The board of health's figures are 2,037,929. Both totals were arrived at by an entirely different method of calculation, and the fact that they are so nearly equal indicates that California has increased more than 500,000 since the last official census, in 1900. Shampoo. A mid-eighteenth century traveler, who is the first person known to have made English of the word "shampoo," wrote that "shampooing is an operation not known in Europe and is peculiar to the Chinese, which I had once the curiosity to go through, and for which I paid but a trifle. However, had I not seen several Chinese merchants shampooed before me I should have been apprehensive of danger, even at the sight of all the different instruments." The original "shampoo," as this traveler's detailed account and other allusions for long after his time show, was very much what we call "massage" now. It was from India that the word really came, and it represents the imperative of a verb meaning to knead. The Measuring Rod. Whatshisname Bilkins ... $1,000 James C. Bilkins ... 10,000 Hon. James C. Bilkins ... 100,000 Our public spirited benefactor, James C. Bilkins ... 200,000 Old Bilkins ... 1,000,000 That old leather hearted hog, Bilkins ... 5,000,000 Taking No Risks. Dentist—You should have taken gas, as I suggested, sir. You would have felt no pain. Victim—Me take gas! Me, with £20 in my pocket! No fear. Get it over.—London Tit-Bits. Well Bred. "That's a well bred child." "You bet she is. 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