anaheim-gazette 1912-11-07

EMPLOYEES ARE APPOINTED ON MERIT STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION APPLIES BUSINESS METHODS TO GREAT PUBLIC WORK ECONOMY USED IN EXPENDING $18,000,000 FOR BUILDING STATE ROAD It would naturally appear that the expenditure of $18,000,000 in the construction of 2500 miles of public roads would require the direct employment by the state of an army of thousands. This is not necessarily the case, however. The long-pursued policy of the state has been to contract for the construction of its public works and buildings. While the California Highway Commission has not committed itself to this method, all work under the highways act thus far started has been let to the lowest responsible bidders. It is obvious, therefore, that the vastly greater portion of the labor employed on the state highway is hired by these bidders. On the pay roll of the commission for the month of September, 1912, there were 360 persons. Two hundred and seven of the employees are engineers, surveyors and draftsmen; 23 are classified as clerical; of axemen, teamsters, and cooks, there are 67. But even these last mentioned are not to be considered as common laborers. Aside from sobriety and physical and moral fitness, it takes considerable experience to serve a surveying crew satisfactorily as axman, teamster or cook. Therefore, it may be truly stated comes in, perhaps it will read "Never heard of the party mentioned," or worse, "So and So worked for this company in 1909 and was discharged for negligence and dissipation." As new men are needed, because of the expansion of the commission's work or to fill vacancies that occur for various reasons, the force is recruited from those whose applications are on file. When from five to fifty good men are in line for a job, and there is only one place open, it is simply a case of the highway engineer's recommending the one who seems best to answer the requirements. In all cases where the positions are of the more responsible character, requiring technical training, the applicant is usually invited to a personal interview with either the highway engineer or one of the division engineers before he is recommended for employment. The new government of the city of Sacramento at the outset adopted a system of formal applications for employment, copied after that of this commission. Other important departments of the state have recently taken up the study of the highway commission's method along this line with serious intent to apply the same progressive principles to their organization. This is in line with the efforts of all the best influences that have always been at work in the political life of the state and nation, seeking to apply to the public's business the same efficiency and honesty in management that is necessary to the success of any private undertaking. SHOT FRIEND, NOT ENEMY Frank Holguan's Aim Through Window Was Bad, so Saragosa Escaped Frank Holguan's aim was bad on Sunday. Perhaps it was because his hand and head were unsteady from too much liquor. He intended to kill Saragosa, but instead he shot his friend, Frank Soto, through the shoulder. There was a celebration of some On the pay roll of the commission for the month of September, 1912, there were 360 persons. Two hundred and seven of the employees are engineers, surveyors and draftsmen; 23 are classified as clerical; of axemen, teamsters, and cooks, there are 67. But even these last mentioned are not to be considered as common laborers. Aside from sobriety and physical and moral fitness, it takes considerable experience to serve a surveying crew satisfactorily as axman, teamster or cook. Therefore, it may be truly stated that among the limited number of positions available under the commission, there are practically no positions for untrained and unskilled people. At the outset, the California Highway Commission determined that competency, ability, and character should be the prime qualifications that should govern in the organization of its office and field forces. If the state is to be permitted to do its own business in a businesslike way, it must adopt those ordinary, practical business methods that are everywhere recognized in the business world as the prerequisites of efficiency and success. To avail itself of the best technical skill that the state's money can procure has been consistently the aim of the commission, and this spirit has bred into the individual member of the organization a certain pride in his employment which challenges him to give his best to the state. As against the man who imagines he receives his appointment by grace of a political pull or as a reward for services to the party, one who wins preference on the showing of his special training, experience and personal worth will ordinarily apply himself with greater zeal and interest to his work, since he realizes that he has been taken upon his own merits and that his career in the department will be made or marred alone by his own conduct. In a work such as this commission is charged with, it is peculiarly important that its forces not only possess the proper skill and training, but what is rarer, the heart interest which stimulates each individual to earnest and conscientious endeavor in the discharge of his duties. By the process of "finishing" with laggards and derelicts, and of advancing those who prove their fitness to fill vacancies higher up in the service, the commission, under the generalship of the highway engineer, has assembled a loyal, earnest body of employees with whom it is an honor to be associated. There are at present approximately 1200 formal applications for employ- SHOT FRIEND, NOT ENEMY Frank Holguan's Aim Through Window Was Bad, so Saragosa Escaped Frank Holguan's aim was bad on Sunday. Perhaps it was because his hand and head were unsteady from too much liquor. He intended to kill Saragosa, but instead he shot his friend, Frank Soto, through the shoulder. There was a celebration of some kind at Saragosa's house near the Santa Ana river. Holguan and Soto, who live west of Santa Ana, were among the guests. During the course of the festivities, Holguan and the host, Saragosa, got their friendship wires crossed, and Holguan conceived the idea that it was necessary for him to end Saragosa's existence on this earth. Holguan went out into the yard and thought it over, and the more he thought the more certain he was that he wanted to kill Saragosa. So Holguan took out his revolver, went to the window and took aim at Saragosa. The bullet went wide of its mark, and entered Soto's shoulder at the back. Holguan thought it was time for him to leave, which thought was quickly put into action. Soto was taken to the county physician's office, and the bullet was removed from underneath the skin of the fore part of the shoulder. Soto will recover. As yet the officers have been unable to recover Holguan. Holguan was arrested about a week ago for being intoxicated, and paid a fine of $5 to City Recorder Willson. Soto is a plasterer. SKATING FOR EXERCISE Eastern Society Women Adopting Roller Skating That roller skating is becoming again in high favor is evidenced by the fact that leading society ladies in large Eastern cities have adopted it as a means of improving gracefulness and giving better physical carriage. Arthur S. Rolph, owner of the Anaheim skating rink in the Opera House building, informs us that such ladies as Mrs. Astor and other members of her social set are much in favor of skating and have adopted it as a pastime. The Anaheim rink has been open six weeks and in that time several large social gatherings have been held, the most recent being a ghost party on skates. The rink will probably be open through November and into December. Mr. Rolph states that for the rest of the time except on special oc- By the process of "finishing" with laggards and derelicts, and of advancing those who prove their fitness to fill vacancies higher up in the service, the commission, under the generalship of the highway engineer, has assembled a loyal, earnest body of employees with whom it is an honor to be associated. There are at present approximately 1200 formal applications for employment on file with the commission, and the list grows daily. The applicant, in filling out this blank, states the date and place of his birth, where educated, what positions he has held during the past 10 years, the salaries he received in such previous employment, when he left his last position and for what reasons, whether he has any disqualifying defect in body or mind, and references with postoffice addresses. When such an application is received, it is classified according to the character of the employment sought, and indexed. A letter accompanied by a return report form and a return addressed and stamped envelope is sent out to each of the persons named as references. When these reports are received, they are attached to the application and it is filed for consideration. The great majority of those to whom these reference blanks are sent forward their reports promptly and with evident candor. Sometimes an applicant gives names as references without any expectation that the persons referred to will be called upon to testify in his behalf. When the report Arthur S. Rolph, owner of the Anaheim skating rink in the Opera House building, informs us that such ladies as Mrs. Astor and other members of her social set are much in favor of skating and have adopted it as a pastime. The Anaheim rink has been open six weeks and in that time several large social gatherings have been held, the most recent being a ghost party on skates. The rink will probably be open through November and into December. Mr. Rolph states that for the rest of the time, except on special occasions, general admission will be free to all, charges being made only for skates. Preparations are being made for a big time tonight when a greased pig will be turned loose on the floor and a bunch of young men on skates started in pursuit, the one being able to catch the pig receiving it as a prize. LONG RAILROAD TICKET Redlands Man Purchases Seven-Footer For Long Trip The Santa Fe holds the record for this section in the sale of long railway tickets. A Redlands man recently purchased a ticket with coupons for travel over 20 railroad and steamship lines. When these coupons were pasted together, the ticket measured seven feet, seven inches in length. Many of the "long tickets" are now being sold to local people traveling eastward and eastern tourists coming to the west, but the Redlands man takes the cake as having the longest. Sell your goods through our want column—It will pay you. GOMBER WELL IS DOING GOOD WORK LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER BEING LIFTED—WELL IS FREE FROM SAND WATER BOARD IN MONTHLY SESSION HEARS REPORT FROM SUPERINTENDENT Anaheim, Cal., Nov. 2, 1912. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held on the above date with all members present. Minutes of the last regular meeting of October 19 and the adjourned meetings of October 24 and 30, 1912, were read and approved. Superintendent reported the F. J. Kimball Company were getting about 185 inches of water out of well No. 1 on the Gomber tract with their compressor and stated the well seemed to be entirely free from sand. On motion of Hale, seconded by McFadden, the superintendent was instructed to use his own judgment as to when the compressor should be changed to well No. 2. On motion of Hale, seconded by McFadden, the superintendent was given entire charge of all matters pertaining to the handling of the oil. The report of the finance committee was received and filed and warrants ordered drawn in payment of the various demands therein recommended. The reports of the superintendent, treasurer and secretary were each in turn received and filed. A communication received from the Byron-Jackson Company, requesting a check for the balance on contract for machinery for well No. 2 at pumping plant. For labor and team work, Bradford Ave., Placentia... 243.92 (Used 19 sacks cement.) Labor and team work to complete 16-inch pipe line at E. Anaheim... 23.50 (Cement used on above, 10 sacks, 788 feet 16-inch pipe.) Labor and team work unloading car cement... 26.00 Pumping Pumping at P. P. No. 3... 32.36 Length of Commonwealth pipe line, Fullerton, 1125 feet; length of 16-inch pipe line at G. Stock ranch, Anaheim, 395 feet. Secretary will please charge Reinforced Concrete Pipe Co. with balance on labor $8.92 and 315 sacks cement. Cement used by Murphy at Oil Wells, 4 sacks. Standing Cement Account Sacks Cement on hand Sept. 21, 1912... 482 Amount received from Colton... 800 Total... 1282 Amount sold to Reinforced Concrete Pipe Co. to repair reinforced pipe line... 315 Sold to Byron-Jackson Iron Works to make cement foundation for A. U. W. Co. pit... 25 Amount used by A. U. W. Co... 37 Total amount used and sold... 377 Balance on hand Oct. 21, 1912... 905 Respectfully submitted, A. L. PORTER, Supt. MILLIONS FOR EQUIPMENT Railroads of Country Placing Large Orders For Rails and Cars Orders for steel rails and equipment placed by railroads last week provide for a total expenditure of more than $30,000,000, the carriers having contracted for 300,000 tons of rails and 109 locomotives, 20,000 cars and several thousand tons of bridge structural steel. The rail business placed was entirely for 1912 delivery and the bulk of the cars ordered will not be delivered until the middle of next year. None of the material, equipment or rails can be counted upon to relieve in any way the congestion of freight which is now bothering the roads and promises to last into next year. The largest rail order was placed by the Louisville 'and Nashville', 90,000 tons, though the Illinois Central order of 50,000 tons when added to 65,000 tons, placed by the Pacific Coast lines, makes a total of 115,000 tons for the Harriman interests. None of the others exceed 20,000 tons, that being the tonnage placed by the Wabash, the Erie placing 18,000 and the Pere MarBETTER METHODS OF FARMING IN STATE AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS TO REAP ADVANTAGES BY SCIENTIFIC TUITION APPROPRIATIONS TO BE ASKED FOR INCREASING ACTIVITY AT STATE FARM The University of California wants to have the best department of agriculture in the United States and will ask appropriations from the next legislature to accomplish this end. Provision will be needed for teaching agriculture at Berkeley and at the farm school at Davis, for disseminating among the farmers knowledge of improved agricultural methods, and for experimental work in all the varied problems that face the California farmer. The university extension work in agriculture should be more actively prosecuted than ever before. Lecture and study centers should be founded all over the state if only adequate funds can be secured. These are the needs for the department of agriculture, which comes first and foremost. In addition the university should have a new North Hall to replace the outworn wooden building which for 40 years has been the chief center of the teaching work of the university. A permanent fire-proof building to house the general classes in place of North Hall would cost $400,000. Other needs of the university in the way of agricultural and other appropriations are set forth as follows: To make possible a proper development of the teaching work of the department of agriculture, an increase from $100,000 per annum to $200,000 REPORT OF FINANCIAL COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 2, 1912 October 1, 1912— Cash in hands of Treasurer... $13,754.97 Cash in hands of Secretary... 163.80 Water sales, Anaheim... 899.20 Water sales, Fullerton and Placentia... 6,059.02 W. W. Krick, gravel... 1.75 Geo. M. Young, general account... 28.70 E. M. Schlotter, general acct... 6.00 T. Anderson, general acct... 8.80 Oil royalty... 7,915.01 General expense... 4.00 Rentals... 7.50 Total ... $32,848.75 Checks paid and returned... 15,971.54 Available cash Nov. 1, 1912... $16,877.21 Expenditures Byron-Jackson Iron Works... $183.44 J. Kellenberger, Anaheim taxes... 73.85 Home Tel. Co., Anaheim... 6.10 Home Tel. Co., Fullerton... 3.90 Pacific Tel & Tel. Fullerton... 18.65 F. Trendle... 22.30 H. A. Dickel... 7.55 Anahelm Motor Co... 40.38 The Peoples Store... 3.00 Burroughs Adding Machine Co... 11.62 Crane & Co... 3.39 Cal. Portland Cement Co... 115.90 Standard Oil Co... 9.50 O. M. Schaller... 25.25 H. Kuchel... 4.25 Wm. Wallop, expenses... 68.21 J. C. Lamb, 1st Ins. Co., taxes... 1,904.39 J. C. Lamb, sal. and com... 5.60 E. E. Beazley, sal. and com... 21.00 A. S. Bradford, sal. and com... 25.05 G. W. Sherwood, sal. and com... 22.85 J. J. Dwyer, sal. and com... 6.00 Wm. T. Wallop, salary... 125.00 Pay roll, regular employees... 595.00 Pay roll, labor... 1,231.41 Total ... $4,533.59 Available cash... 16,877.21 ARIZONA GREAT COPPER STATE Has Produced Nearly Three and a Half Billion Pounds of the Red Metal Arizona has a record production of 3,494,333,111 pounds of copper, or 21.38 per cent of the total output of the United States since mining began. In 1911 Arizona produced 303,202,532 pounds of blister copper, as compared with 297,250,538 pounds in 1910. This is the largest output in the history of the state, according to B. S. Butler, of the United States Geological Survey, and continues Arizona in first place among the copper producing states. She produced 27.63 per cent of the total output of the country for 1911. The steady output of copper from Arizona began about 1875, though there was intermittent production prior to that date, the earliest record of production being for 1862. Since 1880 the growth of the industry has been steady and rapid. Nine copper smelting plants operated within the state during the year. JUDGE FOR YOURSELF Which Is Better—Try an Experiment or Profit by an Anaheim Citizen's Experience Something new is an experiment. Must be proved to be as represented. The statement of a manufacturer is not convincing proof of merit. But the endorsement of friends is. Now supposing you had a bad back, A lame, weak, or aching one, Would you experiment on it? You will read of many so-called North Hall to replace the outworn wooden building which for 40 years has been the chief center of the teaching work of the university. A permanent fire-proof building to house the general classes in place of North Hall would cost $400,000. Other needs of the university in the way of agricultural and other appropriations are set forth as follows: To make possible a proper development of the teaching work of the department of agriculture, an increase from $100,000 per annum to $200,000 per annum of the item in the general appropriation bill for the support and maintenance of the university. Since the University of California this term has 14½ per cent more students in attendance than it had at this time a year ago, and since the income of the university this year is only 3 per cent greater than last year, the need of some such relief is felt most acutely. For a department of university extension, for making the teaching of the university more available for men and women throughout the state, $10,000 per annum. For agricultural investigations in Southern California, at the Whittier Plant Pathological Laboratory, and at the Santa Monica Forestry Experiment Station, $20,000 per annum. For maintenance of the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, devoted to the investigation of problems affecting the orange and lemon growers, $25,000 per annum. For investigations to find ways of preventing or curing plant diseases in Northern California, $10,000 per annum. For agricultural investigations in Imperial county as to the novel problems of agriculture in a region reclaimed from the desert, $5,000 per annum. For investigations to develop improved seed for cereal crops, so that through better seed and improved methods the yield of California fields may be increased, $7,500 per annum; For inevigations in the problems of the grape grower, the raisin maker, and the vineyard industries in general, $7,500 per annum. For the preparation and distribution of a serum to prevent hog cholera, $12,-500 per annum. For the inspection and control of insecticides and fungicides, to protect the public against fraudulent articles, $5,000 per annum. For Farmers' Institutes, to bring to knowledge of the farming community improved methods and the latest results of agricultural science, $15,000 per annum. For printing at the State Printing Office, most of this money to be for REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT FOR OCTOBER, 1912 To the Honorable Board of Directors of the A. U. W. Co. Gentlemen:—The following is my report for October, 1912: Regular employees $595.00 Cleaning Fullerton-Placentia ditches 24.00 Anaheim ditches 52.00 Main canal by Navarro 58.50 Main canal by Sepulbera 60.50 Main canal by Lemus 63.50 Repairs Repairing bank reservoir at Crowthers' corner 2.00 Repairing gates 9.25 Repairing ditch and raise box, Los Angeles street 18.00 (Anaheim, used 4 sacks cement) Teaming, 16 in. and 36 in. pipe to Palm and Broad Sts., Anaheim. Oil Well Salary Pumping and loading oil at Placentia 150.00 Construction To construction at oll wells, cesspool and fix-up around house 50.00 To telephone booth at loading station 5.25 Teaming, 16 in. pipe to Olinda (Taylor P. Line) 214.75 Labor and team work at P. P. No. 3 Measuring pipe lines 6.00 Which is Better—Try an Experiment or Profit by an Anaheim Citizen's Experience Something new is an experiment. Must be proved to be as represented. The statement of a manufacturer is not convincing proof of merit. But the endorsement of friends is. Now supposing you had a bad back, A lame, weak, or aching one, Would you experiment on it? You will read of many so-called cures. Endorsed by strangers from faraway places. It's different when the endorsement comes from home. Easy to prove local testimony. Read this case: D. Lieb, Anaheim, Cal., says: "Speaking from the experience of one of my family who has used Doan's Kidney Pills, I can recommend them highly for backache and kidney trouble. They brought the best results in the case I refer to. Doan's Kidney Pills were procured at Mullinix's Drug Store and I advise other kidney sufferers to give them a trial." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other. "I suppose," observed the tramp, bitterly, "you would like to have me get off the earth. But I can not." "Have you tried soft soap?" asked the woman in the blue gingham dress, dispassionately. For the preparation and distribution of a serum to prevent hog cholera, $12,-500 per annum. For the inspection and control of insecticides and fungicides, to protect the public against fraudulent articles, $5,000 per annum. For Farmers' Institutes, to bring to the knowledge of the farming community improved methods and the latest results of agricultural science, $15,000 per annum. For printing at the State Printing Office, most of this money to be for printing agricultural bulletins, and a portion for the Lick Observatory publications, $6,000 per annum. For further development and equipment of the plant pathological laboratory at Whittler, $11,200. For restoration of income, $31,000 per annum. For replacement of the dormitory at the Lick Observatory, this building to be used as a dwelling place for unmarried members of the astronomical staff and for fellows and graduate students working on Mount Hamilton, $50,000. For building operations and extension of equipment for the Los Angeles Medical Department, $25,000, and for maintenance, $10,000 per annum. This department offers instruction in the last two years of the medical course. It has a great dispensary service in which more than 25,000 people are treated annually, and maintains a hospital built with an appropriation made by the legislature at its last session. For development and maintenance of the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, at La Jolla, near San Diego devoted to increase of knowledge in regard to the problems of the animal an PERFECTION SMOKELESS OIL HEATER Efficient. Will heat a good sized room even in the coldest weather. Economical. Burns nine hours on one gallon of oil. Ornamental. 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For the University Farm, at Davis in Yolo county, where the university maintains a three-year school for boys of high school age who wish practical education for farm life, and where also the students of the College of Agriculture receive part of their training, a total of $205,500, to be applied to the following purposes: Salaries, $30,000 per annum; maintenance and support, $25,000 per annum; care and improvement of grounds, $2,500 per annum; purchase of livestock, $12,000; equipment, $11,000; machinery, implements, etc., $2,500; building operations, $65,000. The annual income of the University of California is much less than that of a number of other American universities of the same class. In the volume of work which it is called upon to perform, however, it is equalled by no other American university. Columbia alone has as large a number of students, and Columbia has no agricultural department. More than half of the total of the appropriations mentioned above is for agriculture, and much of this for work economic rather than educational in character, since such work is constantly being asked of the university by the legislature, at the instance of the agricultural community. The public demand for agricultural experimentation, agricultural guidance, and agricultural teaching is increasing apace. Agriculture, however, is necessarily the most expensive form of modern educational and scientific work. Yet in no way can the state expend money with such certainty of immense return in the way of actual material enrichment for the community, and in the improvement of living conditions for the community as a whole. Gazette—Anaheim's want ad medium PALACE MARKET Does the best business because it sells the best meats. It is mighty hard to get a bad bargain here. If you want the very best you will buy from us. We are sole agents for Imperial Creamery butter. 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