anaheim-gazette 1913-09-18

BIG DELEGATION CALLS UPON TRUSTEES ADVOCATES OF THE PROHIBITION CAUSE INVADE THE CITY HALL AT THURSDAY'S MEETING CONSIDERABLE WARM LANGUAGE BANDIED ON ANNOUNCEMENT PETITION WAS NOT FILED Fifty or more persons who are vitally interested in the coming contest over the all-important question, "To drink or not to drink in Anaheim," invaded the council chamber of the city hall Thursday night on the presumption that the petition demanding an election on prohibition filed with City Clerk Merritt on Tuesday, September 2, would be presented to the board for action. Deep disappointment was meted out to all parties, however, as the clerk, after the docket had been cleared off and practically all the businesses of the evening transacted, announced that he had appointed J. J. Schneider and Fred C. Rimpau a committee to make a thorough examination of the list, compare the names with the great register in the office of the county clerk and eliminate such names as might be found ineligible to exercise the right of suffrage. The report of the commissioners would be ready for filing on the following day, said Mr. Merritt. Among those present on the dry side board by the petitioners was unjust. The law was explicit in its provisions and the trustees could only act in accordance with it. No matter how prejudiced they might be, they could not do otherwise than conform to the law governing the matter. His honor, the mayor, called the disputants to order and directed the board to proceed with the regular business of the meeting at this point. Building permits to the number of 13 were petitioned for and granted as follows: H. G. Melcher, garage for Richard Melrose, on Cypress street; cost $100. To Gus M. Theodore, residence on South Lemon street; cost $1,000. To the Episcopal church, parsonage on Adele street; cost $1,500. To Adolf Thomas, garage on West Center street; cost $100. To M. F. Tham, frame residence on Bush street; cost $1,200. To E. E. Henage, garage on Emily street; cost $30. To F. C. Rimpau, garage on North Los Angeles street; cost $50. To Elton S. Goble, garage on Walnut street; cost $50. To John M. DeHart, frame dwelling on Helena street; cost $800. To K. E. Nethaway, frame residence on South street; cost $1,200. To Hans Gatjens, frame residence on South Claudina street; cost $200. Ordinance No. 264 fixing a tax rate for the coming year, was read the second time and passed. The assessment is as follows: General fund, 84.6 per $100. Paying interest on electric light bonds and one-fortieth of principal, 2.3. For water works and light plant, 6.2. Water works improvement, 18.3. Interest on paving bonds with one- cleared off and practically all the business of the evening transacted, announced that he had appointed J. J. Schneider and Fred C. Rimpau a committee to make a thorough examination of the list, compare the names with the great register in the office of the county clerk and eliminate such names as might be found ineligible to exercise the right of suffrage. The report of the commissioners would be ready for filing on the following day, said Mr. Merritt. Among those present on the dry side of the controversy were 12 or 15 ladies, and perhaps twice that many men, all anxious to have the petition presented and acted upon and definite action toward the calling of an election taken by the trustees. Mr. Merritt's announcement not only disappointed but angered some of them. C. E. Jones stated that he believed the delay was wholly unnecessary. Two men had been working on the list for more than a week and were not yet ready to report. He himself, he believed, could have compared those signatures and verified the list within a day. It looked to him like the matter was being held up purposely. This roused the lire of Mr. Merritt who reminded him that a Sunday and a holiday had intervened since the petition was presented. Moreover, he said, if the petition had been passed on in the shape it reached his hands it would have been thrown out entirely. He and the commissioners would present the petition within the time specified by law. Mr. Jones declared furthermore that the committee had conferred with County Clerk Williams during the day and had received the information from him that the commissioners had finished the work and the petition was complete. City Attorney Ames thereupon stated that the county clerk's statement was immaterial as Mr. Merritt was conforming to the law which gave him ten days to verify and present the petition. Trustee Stark and Rev. C. R. Moore also had a sharp controversy. Mr. Moore wanted to know if the board would call an extra session to consider the matter and arrange for the election, and was informed that it would not be considered until the next regular meeting on September 25. Mr. Moore was not vituperative in his talk but he thought the question was being unnecessarily delayed. Mr. Stark answered that the board was sitting always for the purpose of conforming to the law governing the body and would give the committee and the forces having charge of the dry campaign equal privileges with the opposing side. All parties would be treated with courtesy. To Hans Gatjens, frame residence on South Claudina street; cost $200. Ordinance No. 264 fixing a tax rate for the coming year, was read the second time and passed. The assessment is as follows: General fund, 84.6 per $100. Paying interest on electric light bonds and one-fortieth of principal, 2.3. For water works and light plant, 6.2. Water works improvement, 18.3. Interest on paving bonds with one-fifteenth of principal, 4.6. Library maintenance, 9.4. Sewer farm, interest and one-fortieth of principal, 40.7. Light plant acquisition, interest and one-fortieth of principal, 3.9. The total assessment aggregates $1.70 on the hundred dollars which is the same as last year. Owing to increased assessment it will yield considerably more revenue than was collected the previous year. A communication signed by Esther Clark, J. E. Fisher and G. M. Theodore, announcing that the recent notification from the city that second-hand pipe loaned them a couple of years ago for the purpose of carrying away the waste water from the laundry must be returned, would be costly proceeding now inasmuch as the ground in which the pipe is buried is now in nursery stock and the young trees would have to be removed. The marshal was instructed to investigate and ascertain the cost of taking up the pipe. Specifications for the motor propelled fire engine which the city is purchasing were read and adopted. The proposition to advertise for bids for the same which will be opened on October 23, met with opposition from Trustee Gates who was doubtful if the city would be in shape financially to pay for the same. A bond issue of $15,000 which is to be voted on might fail and the city find itself without sufficient funds, he said. The proposition carried, however. A communication from Joseph Lieb requesting an increase of salary from $75 to $90 per month was laid over for future consideration, as Mr. Lewis, manager of the power house, was not present. Judge Howard's court during the month, handled 28 cases and collected fines to the amount of $78. Following are the reports of the officials for the past month: Rate Collector Collected for light... $1,836.65 Water... $1,311.10 Total ... $3,137.75 Delinquents Collected For water... $119.50 Mrs. Marie Eule, labor Wm. Eule, labor J. Gottschalk, labor E. J. Hartung, salary Frank G. Mauer, labor J. S. Rockwell, labor Fritz Stolte, labor V. L. Steward, surveyin O. E. Steward, surveyin Total salary and labor Anaheim Fire Co.... Dr. J. W Truxaw, service Angell-Redit Co., supply Rudolf Fossek, sprinklin Anaheim T. & T. Co.... Pressel & Son, blacksmith Associated Oil Co.... Standard Oil Co.... J.B.Collings, express Pac.Tel.&Tel.Co.... Orange Co.Plain Dealer Crane Co., supplies Cal.Con.CulvertCo.... H.R.Boynton.... J.W.Duckworth,P.M.... H.A.Dickel,supplies Electric Corp.... Griffith Lumber Co.... Gen.Electric Co.... Garlock Packing Co.... A.H.Heying,supplies E.Huenemeyer.Keystone Iron Works... M.W.Martenet.O.A.MullinixMadson & GrahamNeptune Meter Co.National Carbon Co.National Meter Co.Pacific States Elec.Co.J.A.Roblings Sons.Valvoline Oil Co.West Anaheim Water Co.A.W.Wood,supplies Westinghouse Lamp.Co.Westinghouse Elec.Co.F.Hess, labor Total BRIDGE IS TEST AND FOUND Eighty-Seven Tons Run Bridge Thurse The pessimists took Thursday afternoon when made by the Board of proved that the reinforcement across the Santa Clarita safe for any loads that hauled across it.The bolt to the severest kind of steam rollers, weighting a half tons each, were across the bridge, upon tons of rock had just been surfacing.The bridge was designed & Post of Los Angeles,the county with the Yoronto Company of Los Angelesthe work.The bridge crete approaches meas er the matter and arrange for the election, and was informed that it would not be considered until the next regular meeting on September 25. Mr. Moore was not vituperative in his talk but he thought the question was being unnecessarily delayed. Mr. Stark answered that the board was sitting always for the purpose of conforming to the law governing the body and would give the committee and the forces having charge of the dry campaign equal privileges with the opposing side. All parties would be treated with courtesy and justice and no partiality would be shown. Mr. Stark also called the attention of Mr. Moore to the fact that his people had been showing anything but courtesy to their opponents. He referred, he said, to the abuse and villification of the citizens of Anaheim by an imported preacher and to the epithets casting reflections on the good people because they failed to agree with him, which had been heard at the meeting. Mr. Moore answered that Evangelist Brown had been misquoted and that some of the expressions attributed to him by the papers were exaggerations but Stark said the reports in the Santa Ana and Anaheim papers were practically identical and that there were others who had heard the sermons and could verify the published accounts. "Everybody knows," said Mr. Stark, "that I am fighting against this prohibition move. I can say that we have used no abuse, we have slandered nobody, we have treated everybody fairly so far and expect to do so and to give everybody a square deal throughout the campaign. So far as the fight has progressed we have treated our opponents with courtesy and we resent the slander and villification of good citizens which has characterized the line of argument handed down from the pulpit by the evangelist." Trustee Hamler said that imputations of unfairness on the part of the Thursday Orange county got two new citizens. They are brothers, born in England. Wilfred E. Hitchen, born in 1888, here since 1907, and Albert L. C. Hitchen, born in 1887, here since 1905, are the two. They work for William Crowther of Placentia. Crowther and L. W. Hale were their witnesses. This morning Judge West put them through a list of questions, and the applicants for citizenship passed excellently. Judge Howard's court during the month, handled 28 cases and collected fines to the amount of $78. Following are the reports of the officials for the past month: Rate Collector Collected for light ... $ 1,836.65 Water ... 1,311.10 Total ... $ 3,137.75 Delinquents Collected For water ... $ 119.50 For light ... 110.05 Total ... $ 229.55 Marshal's Report Collected for license ... $ 1,219.50 Delinquents ... 2.00 Total ... $ 1,221.50 Treasurer's Report Balance in treasurer ... $ 9,204.32 Collected during month ... 4,817.15 Paid by warrants ... $14,021.47 Balance ... 6,376.65 Total ... $ 7,644.82 Library Fund Balance ... $ 355.48 Paid by warrants ... 83.37 Balance ... $ 272.11 Summary General fund ... $ 7,644.82 Library ... 272.11 Municipal bond imp... 1,269.64 Improvement No. 2... 110.50 Electric light ... 212.92 Sewer construction No. 7... 2,250.00 Fund in treasurer ... $11,765.01 Thursday Orange county got two new citizens. They are brothers, born in England. Wilfred E. Hitchen, born in 1888, here since 1907, and Albert L. C. Hitchen, born in 1887, here since 1905, are the two. They work for William Crowther of Placentia. Crowther and L. W. Hale were their witnesses. This morning Judge West put them through a list of questions, and the applicants for citizenship passed excellently. The bridge was designed & Post of Los Angeles, the county with the Yonkers Company of Los Angeles the work. The bridge was concrete approaches measured in length and cost $32,000; central span is 102 feet long; two are 96 feet each; Thomas patents the bridge on the unit system; parts upon the ground and place. Since the bridge was came a long period in which a wait for the dirt appalled made. Then came another surfacing the bridge.May their suspicions arouse those who examined the joint for cracks. County there was talk that of Supervisors had built phant costing $32,000. This talk got the Superior up, and they declared bridge was far above what was guaranteed to hold tons. A steam roller over from Placentia and taken from Chamberlain job near Garden Grove.Two of the steam rollers, tremendous weight of them to take the risk. They bridge might give way; Thomas, the designing S.I.Wellman, an associate aboard a roller and took came back and the two had then went over the entanglement.The bed was routed of crushed rock, not yet ANAHEIM GAZETTE CITY EXCHEQUER FOOTS UP LARGE Salaries and Labor Account For Month Totals $2,233.40 Mrs. Marie Pestorius, salary...$ 50.00 Jacob Kroeger, salary...15.00 F. J. Sheridan, ins. prem...15.00 A. L. Lewis, salary...150.00 Ad. Schneider, salary...90.00 Emil Miller, salary...85.00 W. F. Rannow, salary...80.00 Jos. Lieb, salary...75.00 V. W. Hannum, salary...75.00 Will Lenz, salary...60.00 Ben Lensing, salary...65.00 Robt. Ingles, salary...65.00 H. Bowen, salary...65.00 J. Kellenberger, salary...101.60 Phil Germann, salary...65.00 John H. Iman, salary...75.00 Clarence Sackett, salary...75.00 J. S. Howard, salary...50.00 John DeWitt, salary...74.00 Fritz Stolte, salary...50.00 Dr. J. L. Beebe, salary...10.00 John Hartung, salary...5.00 W. A. Wallace, salary...75.00 E. B. Merritt, salary...125.00 Robt. Cogburn, labor...90.00 Fidel Busche, labor...14.00 L. Boeckeler, labor...15.00 Ernest Bowen, labor...2.50 M. Boeckeler, labor...18.00 Wm. Chambers, labor...15.00 Mrs. Marie Eule, labor...8.00 Wm. Eule, labor...38.00 J. Gottschalk, labor...18.00 E. J. Hartung, salary...5.00 Frank G. Mauer, labor...2.25 J. S. Rockwell, labor...69.50 Fritz Stolte, labor...3.00 V. L. Steward, surveying...81.75 O. E. Steward, surveying...295.65 Total salary and labor.....$2,233.40 Anaheim Fire Co....84.00 Dr. J. W. Truxaw, services....4.00 Angell-Redit Co., supplies....7.75 Rudolf Fossek, sprinkling....77.50 Anaheim T. & T. Co....38.10 Pressel & Son, blacksmithing....7.90 the heavy rollers pitched considerably. The bridge stood the strain, and probably would have taken many times the weight put upon it today. Supervisors Talbert, Schumacher and Leck, who saw the test, were greatly pleased with the outcome. ORANGE COUNTY'S PROWESS IN SPORT Long List of Celebrities Given to World by This Small Spot "Orange County's Prowess in Sports" will be the subject of a lecture to be delivered by D. W. McDannald, Orange county's representative in the publicity department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Mr. McDannald will give an illustrated lecture showing photographs of those Orange county men who have written their names high on the roll of national fame. In the collection will be the picture of a woman as well. And there will be one great actress of whose identification with this county its people are very proud. As a matter of course, Walter Johnson's picture will be there. The lecturer will tell his audience that the greatest pitcher of any time, now with the Washington Americans, got his training on the sand lots of Orange county. Kelly will be there shown winning the greatest hurdle race in the world, the Olympic championship. He will be celebrated as the greatest all-around athlete in the west, perhaps in the world. Then there will be Tetzlaff, king of all the speed kings, the most daring automobile driver in that game of BUSINESS CARDS FOR SALE 500,000 PEPPER PLANTS—CHILI AND BELL. IN ANY QUANTITY. C.R.HANNAH, 2 MILES SOUTH ON LOS ANGELES STREET. MAIL ADDRESS R.F.D.4,BOX 100.PACIFIC PHONE 82R4. C.W.Harvey,M.D.Albert Osborne,M.D DRS.HARVEY & OSBORNE have moved their offices to the second floor of the Dickel building, corner Lemon and Center streets. Sunset 46-R —PHONES— Home 1134 DR.L.L.SHELL Osteopathic PHYSICIAN and SURGEON 11 to 12 A.M.; 2 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Phone Pacific 341. Suites 1 and 2 Nagel Building NIGHT CALLS FROM OFFICE J.W.TUTTER, Physician and Surgeon Office Hours, 2 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Phones: Pacific 151J; Home 1712 Office at Residence 156 S.Los Angeles Street ANAHEIM,CAL. H.V.Weisel Roger C.Dutton BRIDGE IS TESTED AND FOUND SAFE Eighty-Seven Tons Run Over River Bridge Thursday The pessimists took a back seat Thursday afternoon when the test made by the Board of Supervisors proved that the reinforced concrete bridge across the Santa Ana river is safe for any loads that will ever be hauled across it. The bridge was put to the severest kind of a test. Two steam rollers, weighting thirteen and a half tons each, were run abreast across the bridge, upon which sixty tons of rock had just been placed for surfacing. The bridge was designed by Thomas & Post of Los Angeles, and built by the county with the Young Construction Company of Los Angeles doing the work. The bridge with the concrete approaches measures 340 feet Total salary and labor $2,233.40 Anaheim Fire Co. 84.00 Dr. J. W. Truxaw, services 4.00 Angell-Redit Co., supplies 7.75 Rudolf Fossek, sprinkling 77.50 Anaheim T. & T. Co. 38.10 Pressel & Son, blacksmithing 7.90 Associated Oil Co. 273.21 Standard Oil Co. 787.21 J. B. Collings, express 1.00 Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co. 6.45 Orange Co. Plain Dealer 76.30 Crane Co., supplies 181.42 Cal. Con. Culvert Co. 154.70 H. R. Boynton 191.53 J. W. Duckworth, P. M. 43.92 H. A. Dickel, supplies 8.90 Electric Corp. 3.25 Griffith Lumber Co. 1.65 Gen. Electric Co. 131.54 Garlock Packing Co. 16.25 A. H. Heying, supplies .50 E. Huenemeyer 21.15 Keystone Iron Works 24.00 M. W. Martenet 1.98 O. A. Mullinix .60 Madson & Graham 174.30 Neptune Meter Co. 236.43 National Carbon Co. 12.66 National Meter Co. 1.25 Pacific States Elec. Co. 8.50 J. A. Roblings Sons 89.65 Valvoline Oil Co. 90.86 West Anaheim Water Co. 2.00 A. W. Wood, supplies 3.00 Westinghouse Lamp, Co.: 116.90 Westinghouse Elec, Co.: 273.87 F. Hess, labor: 81.10 Total $4,509.18 THE GLEEFUL REFINER "Next year should be one of the most prosperous in our annals," exultingly announced Claus A. Spreckels, president of the Federal Sugar Refining Company, in an interview given out on his recent return from Europe. No wonder the enterprising refiner is The bridge was designed by Thomas & Post of Los Angeles, and built by the county with the Young Construction Company of Los Angeles doing the work. The bridge with the concrete approaches measures 340 feet in length and cost $32,000. The central span is 102 feet long and the other two are 96 feet each. Under the Thomas patents the bridge was built on the unit system, parts being built upon the ground and hoisted into place. Since the bridge was completed came a long period in which there was a wait for the dirt approaches to be made. Then came another wait for surfacing the bridge. Many people had their suspicions aroused. Some of those who examined the structure took the joints for cracks. All over the county there was talk that the Board of Supervisors had built a white elephant costing $32,000. This talk got the Supervisors' dander up, and they declared that the bridge was far above guarantee. It was guaranteed to hold up twenty tons. A steam roller was brought over from Placentia and another was taken from Chamberlain's good roads job near Garden Grove. The engineers of the steam rollers, realizing the tremendous weight of them, declined to take the risk. They feared the bridge might give way. William M. Thomas, the designing engineer, and S. I. Wellman, an associate, climbed aboard a roller and took it across. It came back and the two huge machines then went over the entire bridge together. The bed was rough with piles of crushed rock, not yet spread, and THE GLEEFUL REFINER "Next year should be one of the most prosperous in our annals," exultingly announced Claus A. Spreckels, president of the Federal Sugar Refining Company, in an interview given out on his recent return from Europe. No wonder the enterprising refiner is happy as he looks forward to getting rid of the "annoying" competition of home-grown beet sugar which keeps down profits and of soon recouping himself for the money spent by his sales-agent Lowry since Mr. Spreckels told that large-hearted young "grocer" to "go out and beat the drum and make a noise" in the effort to secure free sugar. Those who delude themselves with the idea that competition by foreign refiners will hold the refiners in check and keep down prices after the domestic industry is eliminated should harken to the voice of Spreckles. "Europe's beet sugar is costing more to produce and there is no danger of our market being interfered with by competition from that quarter," he says. Ah, yes, it will be a happy day, mates, a happy world for refiners, when free sugar actually is realized. Maybe Mr. Spreckels will raise the price of $10,000,000 on his Yonkers establishment. And maybe the Trust will pay it. The United States government is going into the magazine publishing business for the benefit of the farmers. A monthly magazine will be put out by the department of agriculture, this month. The publication will be devoted principally to a detailed review of crop conditions presented in a popular way. Thursday, September 18 The First National Bank OF ANAHEIM United States Depository for the Postal Savings System Capital, $50,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $80,000 Resources over $800,000.00 Officers: JOHN HARTUNG, Pres. FRANK SHANLEY A. S. BRADFORD JOHN HARTUNG EDGAR J. HARTUNG, SAMUEL KRAEMER EDGAR J. HARTUNG Cashier We offer every facility consistent with Sound and Conservative Banking 4 PER CENT PAID ON TIME CERTIFICATES ANAHEIM SANITARIUM FOR Surgical, Medical, Maternity and General Sanitarium Cases All kinds of Baths and Sanitarium Treatment, including Carlsbad Electric Light, Turkish, Russian, Super-heated Air, Nauheim, Oxygen Baths, Salt Glows, Fomentations, Packs, Douches, Sprays, Etc., Swedish or German Massage given in accordance with Battle Creek Surgical, Medical, Maternity and General Sanitarium Cases All kinds of Baths and Sanitarium Treatment, including Carlsbad Electric Light, Turkish, Russian, Super-heated Air, Nauheim, Oxygen Baths, Salt Glows, Fomentations, Packs, Douches, Sprays, Etc., Swedish or German Massage given in accordance with Battle Creek methods, by a graduate from Battle Creek. Ladies' department and Lady Attendant. Medical and Surgical Staff—DRS. JOHNSTON, BEEBE, CLARK, DAVIS Pacific 200; Home 221 Office Hours 2-4 and 7-8 P.M. Visitors welcomed 2-4 P.M. For information and rates address MARSHALL E. BEEBE, BUSINESS MANAGER St. Joseph's Academy ANAHEIM, CAL. Conducted by the Sisters of St. Dominic A Boarding Academy and Select Day School. Complete Academic course. Special course in Music, Painting, Embroidery and Languages. For rates and information apply to SISTER SUPERIOR Electric Power Is The Cheap Power Because: Cost of installation is less; labor for operating is saved; less floor space is required; friction and wear and tear are reduced to a minimum; repair bills are obviated; injury to building by vibration is eliminated; there is no loss in the shafting and pulleys; no energy lost in getting started; always ready; always reliable; service is always perfect. Southern California Edison Co. HAY Barley, Oat and Alfalfa AT H. H. GARDNER CO. HAY Barley, Oat and Alfalfa AT H. H. GARDNER CO. 114 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Phone—Sunset 9 Home 1542 The Star Theatre ORANGE COUNTY'S MOST POPULAR PICTURE THEATER WHY? Because we run the latest Pictures. Because we pay more for service than any other Theater in the County. We have the Operator and Machines, and give you a Picture without ruining your eyes. We don't pay tribute to any trust. BUILD A HOME! And get your lumber and Mill-work from us J. M. ASBESTOS ROOFING WON'T BURN GRIFFITH LUMBER CO. On and after Aug. 2 our yards will be closed Saturday afternoon