anaheim-gazette 1917-10-04

PHONE MERGER SCHEME TO BE FOUGHT ABOLITION OF FREE TOLLS AND INCREASED RATES DENOUNCED AT ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS MEETING HARBOR COMMISSION PREPARING TO FILE ITS REPORT WITH THE SUPERVISORS Attorneys Walter Eden of Santa Ana, W. R. Garrett of Orange, and F. Grant White of Anaheim, comprise the committee representing the Associated Chambers of Commerce in its fight against increased rates and abolition of present free toll privileges, and no other person in the county is so authorized. That was the position taken at the Associated meeting at Yorba Linda Wednesday night, and the secretary was instructed to so inform the state railroad commission, in order that the county body might in no way be confused with any individual or local body which might also seek to be heard on the phone question. This committee is "going right to the bat" to fight the proposed increased rates asked by the Pacific telephone company (Bell trust) and was assured of the moral and financial backing of the county commercial bodies. The committee emphasizes the fact they will accept no pay for their services, but urged that a competent attorney—engineer specialist by. "Those advantages are self-evident. I would call the attention of everyone, however, that it costs 76 cents less per 1000 feet to lay lumber down at San Pedro and Long Beach that it does here. And in forming their conclusions as to the merits of the harbor, I would ask the people of the county to visit San Pedro and Long Beach and see what has been accomplished there. At Long Beach particularly, they had less favorable conditions to start a harbor on than we have at Newport Bay. They had no direct entrance to the ocean. They had nothing but marsh lands. Today they have industrial activities there with a total payroll of $1,500,000 annually." Bisby's resolution directing the commission to file its report follows: "Resolved, that it is the sense of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange county expressed, that the county harbor improvement at Newport Beach would result in wide-felt commercial profit, and would induce and stimulate manufacturing and industrial extension, to the material benefit of the county, and we recommend that the Board of Harbor Commissioners proceed to complete their report and submit the same, that the freeholders may be advised as to the feasibility and advisability of such improvement." There was not a dissenting vote on the motion. Howard Wassum, delegate from the Tustin chamber of commerce was not present, and so far as has been reported he was the only delegate in the county instructed to vote no on the proposition. The Tustin chamber is not opposed to improvement of the harbor by the county. At the time of its action it labored under the impression that if the report was submitted the supervisors would have to at once call a bond election. The directors thought it would be better FORMER ANAHEIM IS Frank Ey Has Received Advices that Frank F. Ey, who is City, had been conspired president of the Urbain in the quarterthe officers' reserve. Captain Ey was and was educated lie schools, in the Business College and cisco high school law and other college Valparaiso University also pursued similarings College of La California) and Vity, Salem, Oregoned with the degree e. He practiced law for the past seven years time he successfullyjury cases in both courts. Ey first entered in August, 1899, and Government's emplied during which time throughout the Uniippine Islands. Last October he a deployment in the department quarters Southern Department mand of the late M. erick Funston and M. J. Pershing. Recen ed in a similar capa Island, N. Y. Ey has had experien to few men. On thie 19, 1894, while a mother and brother This committee is "going right to the bat" to fight the proposed increased rates asked by the Pacific telephone company (Bell trust) and was assured of the moral and financial backing of the county commercial bodies. The committee emphasizes the fact they will accept no pay for their services, but urged that a competent attorney—engineer, specialist in phone cases, be secured to represent the county, to be assisted in preparing briefs by the associated committee, and also by a committee from the county Bar association consisting of Attorneys A. W. Rutan, H. C. Head, and H. J. Forgy. This matter was left entirely in the hands of the phone committee, who will employ a representative to make the fight as seems to them best. "We had a preliminary conference on Tuesday," said Mr. Eden, "and telephone officials we met there indicated that they are determined to fight the case strongly. Not only should we prepare evidence for submission to the railroad commission, but resolutions indorsing our stand should be adopted by each local commercial body in order to show a united sentiment in favor of present conditions." "We are informed," said Mr. Eden's report on the phone case to date, "that notices fixing a time and place for hearing a petition for a merger of the two telephone companies was given by the commission, but that the notices said nothing about any proposed changes in the rates." Mr. Eden believes that because nothing was said in the merger notices about the proposed raise in rates, that another hearing on the rates should be held at Santa Ana and try to secure such a hearing from the railroad commission so that the matter may properly be presented. The committee expects to begin active work just as soon as data can be secured showing what the telephone company asks of the commission. The address of welcome at the banquet was given by the Rev. Marsh of Yorba Linda, with response by Mr. White of Anaheim. During his address, Rev. Marsh said that he "had rather be least of those in the kingdom of Orange county than the mightiest in some other section of the globe." Howard Wassum, delegate from the Tustin chamber of commerce was not present, and so far as has been reported he was the only delegate in the county instructed to vote no on the proposition. The Tustin chamber is not opposed to improvement of the harbor by the county. At the time of its action it labored under the impression that if the report was submitted the supervisors would have to at once call a bond election. The directors thought it would be better to defer calling the election until a more settled condition obtains throughout the country, and that this course would be preferable to having the bond issue submitted to the people and voted down. In discussing the resolution, F. D. Cornell of Balboa Palisades stated that an expert harbor engineer had told him recently, after looking over the bay, that with all the millions spent at San Pedro, a better harbor could be made at Newport with half the money it will cost to complete San Pedro. Secretary Metzgar read a letter from Albert Boschke endorsing Newport Bay as one of the best sites on the Pacific coast. Boscike's father was a famous harbor engineer, having made the first plans for the development of Oakland harbor, and he was employed for forty years in the engineering department of the national government. He was chief engineer on the New York harbor from 1851 to 1856. The writer was identified with his father and is a competent engineer. THE GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION To the People of California: The United States has now been at war with the German Empire for nearly six months. In that time, immense money aids have been given to our associates in the war, great armies have been raised and gigantic preparations have been made for our advance into the battle line itself. Soon the sons of America will be actively engaged in the struggle. At this solemn moment I call upon the people of California in all public gatherings and assemblies to renew in their hearts their pledge of patriotic devotion to our country and our flag; I ask them publicly to pledge to the nation and each other full and complete loyalty of service until this great trial has been brought to its success- With considerable interest in many interests Southern California of rock was dropped by the mouth of New days ago, marking the work on the deck is the best natural b Diego and San Francisco few which Naturalifornia coast, says the Sun. The municipal Beach, which includes Newport and Balboa sue of $125,000 to pay which to build a jet harbor available and for merchant shipable size, and the eof that district, have themselves, will have on congress for deserved It is only after o The address of welcome at the banquet was given by the Rev. Marsh of Yorba Linda, with response by Mr. White of Anaheim. During his address, Rev. Marsh said that he "had rather be least of those in the kingdom of Orange county than the mightiest in some other section of the globe." Orange county's harbor commission will file its report with the supervisors at once, and this with the unanimous approval of the representatives of 23 of the 28 chambers of commerce and improvement associations identified with the associated chambers of Orange county. And when it is filed, it will be a happy moment for the co-terile of men of Newport Beach who have for the past seven years or more been consistently and insistently boosting for the making of a harbor at Newport bay. "Harbor" Lew Wallace stated before a vote was taken on a motion to have the report submitted, that it had been ascertained that the statements that the supervisors would have to call an election within 15 days after the report is submitted was erroneous. The law provides that the board of supervisors must call a hearing on the report within 20 or 30 days, that the hearing may be postponed from time to time and that the report could be referred back to the commission, practically making the time unlimited as to when an election might be called. The report was ordered filed with a view of getting the information the commission has secured in its investigations before the public. R. L. Bisby offered the resolution directing submission of the report. "In offering this resolution, I will not attempt to discuss the advantages of the bay as a harbor site," said Bisby. At this solemn moment I call upon the people of California in all public gatherings and assemblies to renew in their hearts their pledge of patriotic devotion to our country and our flag; I ask them publicly to pledge to the nation and each other full and complete loyalty of service until this great trial has been brought to its successful issue. I further request them, as they gather at any time during the week beginning Sept. 30, 1917, in their customary educational, religious and social organizations, to hold a brief service in which they will renew their pledges of loyalty and faith and will dedicate themselves to the great task we have undertaken. I especially lay upon every presiding officer of every school, church, club, labor union, fraternal order or other organization in the state, the duty of preparing and conducting such a service, at a meeting of his organization held during the week mentioned, to the end that all the people of California may solemnly unite in an expression of their loyalty to our government in this day of preparation for battle. An officer in uniform, should he wish to remain discrete, at times has to stand humiliation at the hands of some guy who imagines he has a grievance. When a cocky little Irishman steps up and says, "I have respect for the uniform, but not the man," a bystander has visions of a clenched fist shooting out and landing upon the optic of the vituperative person. But not so; the minion of the law has to look upon the bright side of things and take the verbal thrust complacently. Now, down in Mexico, for instance, they would take the man out and lose him. The Pacific coast of many natural harbors sand miles of coast do not above five natives have been improved nishes the sixth one space there are two that number of harbors coast, enjoying Population accounts and as population grows coast it will demand similar attention. Newport bay is sur Harbors that must b FORMER ANAHEIM BOY IS NOW A CAPTAIN Frank Ey Has Received Promotion by Order of the President Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ey have received advices that their son, Attorney Frank F. Ey, who is now in New York City, had been commissioned by the president of the United States, a captain in the quartermaster section of the officers' reserve corps of the army. Captain Ey was born in Anaheim and was educated in the local public schools, in the Orange County Business College and in the San Francisco high school. Later he studied law and other collegiate courses in Valparaiso University, Indiana, and also pursued similar studies in Hastings College of Law (University of California) and Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, and was graduated with the degree of bachelor of law. He practiced law in San Francisco for the past seven years, during which time he successfully tried numerous jury cases in both Federal and State courts. Ey first entered the Federal service in August, 1899, and remained in the Government's employ many years, during which time he saw service throughout the Union and in the Philippine Islands. Last October he again accepted employment in the contract branch, department quartermaster's office Southern Department, under the command of the late Major General Frederick Funston and Major General John J. Pershing. Recently he was employed in a similar capacity at Governor's Island, N.Y. Ey has had experiences which come to few men. On the night of April 19, 1894, while accompanying his mother and brother, the late George and all the interior of Southern California is commercially interested in bringing that about. CITY WINTER GARDENING IS RECOMMENDED State Council of Defense Says Plant In November The patriots who are planting backyard vegetable gardens are advised by the committee on resources and food supply of the state council of defense to supply themselves with a pamphlet on "City Winter Gardening" written by Stanley S. Rogers, associate professor of olericulture in the university, just published, and obtainable free by writing to the college of agriculture at Berkeley. Californias have a great climatic advantage, since they can maintain a profitable vegetable garden the whole year through. For winter crops, a vegetable garden will be more satisfactory if it is located on rich, light, well drained soil, with a southern exposure level enough to permit irrigation, and not shaded. The beginner does well to ask some experienced neighbor what crops grow best under local conditions. If the soil has already been under cultivation for summer gardening, all that is necessary is to apply well rotted manure and prepare the land. If the rains come early enough so that the land can be properly prepared in November, artichokes, cabbage, radishes, onions, peas, lettuce, rhubarb, or spinach may be planted in that month. Cabbage and peas are especially suited to planting in November. Vacant lots not recently under cultivation should be plowed or spaded at least two months before the planting begins, so that the soil may be softened by the early rains and moisture stored. The soil should be thoroughly compressed. But experts expect the value of the new process will soon be extended broadly. There are two large plants employing the absorption method in operation in the Orange county oil fields that are making a success of this new process. ANOTHER SLACKER Gaxiola brothers, of this city are not the only slackers on the list of exemption board No. 2, according to the board itself. There is another of whom no trace can be found. His name is Charles Milford McRae, whose postoffice address was given as "Sugar Factory, Anaheim." Evidently he is not at the Anaheim sugar factory, or any other factory in this vicinity, and the board has given up all hope of finding him. Not a word is heard of Porforio and Aurelia Gaxiola, who were reported missing. It is reported that they are in Sonora, Mexico, and that is about the safest place for them right now. Otherwise Uncle Sam might reach out and grab them. And in these days it would not be very pleasant to be grabbed by Uncle Sam for being a slacker, as his temper is up, and he is not in a mood to be trifled with. Dr. M. M. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim. Thomas Askin TEACHER OF SINGING AND DRAMATIC RECITATION Last October he again accepted employment in the contract branch, department quartermaster's office Southern Department, under the command of the late Major General Frederick Funston and Major General John J. Pershing. Recently he was employed in a similar capacity at Governor's Island, N.Y. Ey has had experiences which come to few men. On the night of April 19, 1894, while accompanying his mother and brother, the late George P. Ey, the steamer Los Angeles, on which they were passengers en route to San Francisco, struck a rock off the Point Sur Light on the Monterey coast. The mother, who was in one of the first boats to pull away from the fast sinking ship, and who was subsequently, after much exposure, picked up by the passing steamer Eureka, cheered with her farewell her youthful sons, who stood on the wavery, slippery deck, with the sea about to engulf them, until they were no longer visible. The last to leave the ship, which had sunk as soon as their boat had pulled away, the youths battled their way to the shore, and made their way overland to San Francisco, where they greeted their mother. In this tragedy of the sea, 14 unfortunate persons met their fate. On April 18, 1906, in San Francisco, Captain Ey and his brother, George, again escaped with their lives from the terrible earthquake and attendant conflagration. WITH MARVELOUS POSSIBILITIES With considerable ceremony, and with many interested visitors from Southern California, the first carload of rock was dropped on the sands at the mouth of Newport harbor some days ago, marking the beginning of the work on the development of what is the best natural harbor between San Diego and San Francisco, and one of the few which Nature blessed the California coast, says the San Bernardino Sun. The municipality of Newport Beach, which included Newport, East Newport and Balboa, voted a bond issue of $125,000 to provide money with which to build a jetty that will make the harbor available for pleasure craft and for merchant ships up to considerable size, and the enterprising people of that district, having begun to help themselves, will have the right to call on congress for deserved assistance. It is only after one skirts the Palm-come early enough so that the land can be properly prepared in November, artichokes, cabbage, radishes, onions, peas, lettuce, rhubarb, or spinach may be planted in that month. Cabbage and peas are especially suited to planting in November. Vacant lots not recently under cultivation should be plowed or spaded at least two months before the planting begins, so that the soil may be softened by the early rains and moisture stored. The soil should be thoroughly worked just before planting. GAME SAID TO BE PLENTIFUL IN UPPER VALLEY Four Nice Bucks Killed Recently in San Bernardino Mountains—Doves Moving South It is reported that deer are plentiful in the upper Santa Ana, and four nice bucks were shot there recently. Does are increasing very fast in the San Bernardino refuge. A ranger saw a couple along the road a few days ago. Bucks are scarce; driven away from the Holcomb country by too much promiscuous shooting at the opening. The squirrels are now coming onto the ridges, and a small rifle expert might have some fun in the open country north of Holcomb creek and valley. All the lakes in the San Bernardino mountains are fairly crowded with ducks, sprigs mostly. A few teal, blue bills and an occasional redhead and widgeon are to be seen. Even on Little Bear are many birds, but there is no feed to hold them, as in the higher lakes. Doves are moving toward the south steadily, and the best winter sport will be enjoyed in the sycamore canyons of San Diego county after next month. Good sport was enjoyed last year right up to the end, November First. Quail hunters will thus have two weeks for "mixed bags" as doves are often met with on the hills down that way while looking for quail. They are big and fat, welcome additions to the bag. Locally, bagging limits is becoming an expert's game, as birds are strong, wild, and hard to stop, as well as much scarcer; still good shots are getting their 15 for a few hours' work. DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE Dr. M. M. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim. THomas Askin TEACHER OF SINGING AND DRAMATIC RECITATION ANAHEIM 348-R 1 LOS ANGELES, HOME 10082 NOW IS THE TIME To have your auto top rebuilt and recovered And your slip cover made for your car We are the people who can do it, and do it RIGHT We can rebuild the top into a Victoria, French, or any style you wish. We can put plate-glass in your side and back curtains and do your upholstering. A.J.BACKS Phone Pac. 335W 112 W. Chartres Street Anaheim, Cal. OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J.W.TRUXAW,M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 GERMAN AMERICAN BANK BLDG. Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sts. ANAHEIM,CAL. The municipality of Newport Beach, which included Newport, East Newport and Balboa, voted a bond issue of $125,000 to provide money with which to build a jetty that will make the harbor available for pleasure craft and for merchant ships up to considerable size, and the enterprising people of that district, having begun to help themselves, will have the right to call on congress for deserved assistance. It is only after one skirts the Palisade about the bay that one senses the great possibilities for Newport harbor. It extends inland for miles, is thoroughly land locked, and if dredged and improved after the manner of government activities in other ways, it could float the ships anchored in half a dozen San Pedro. The present bond issue and the jetty it provides for will make possible a channel 700 feet wide and 12 feet in depth at low tide, while of course that is recognized as only a beginning. Now the Orange county supervisors have been asked to submit a bond issue calling for $350,000 for the improvement of the harbor, and it may be regarded as a certainty that if the Newport and Orange county people spent approximately half a million dollars on the harbor it will compel government attention. The Pacific coast is not able to boast of many natural harbors. In a thousand miles of coast line, California has not above five natural harbors that have been improved, and Newport furnishes the sixth one. In any equal space there are two or three times that number of harbors on the Atlantic coast, enjoying government aid. Population accounts for the difference, and as population grows on the Pacific coast it will demand—and receive—similar attention. Newport bay is sure to be one of the harbors that must be made available, often met with on the hills down that way while looking for quail. They are big and fat, welcome additions to the bag. Locally, bagging limits is becoming an expert's game, as birds are strong, wild, and hard to stop, as well as much scarcer; still good shots are getting their 15 for a few hours' work. DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE Like miracle workers of old, Uncle Sam is extracting riches from the air. Embattled behind their test-tube and Bunsen burners, government chemists are doing the things that can't be done. The latest "Impossible" achievement is a new method of obtaining gasoline, says a dispatch from Washington. The new method consists of robbing gasoline from natural gas by "absorption." By the new method, the gasoline in natural gas though extremely lean, can be absorbed in oil from which it is separated by distillation. Natural gases yielding less than one pint of gasoline from each thousand cubic feet of gas have been treated with success, where formerly this gasoline went to waste and in addition constituted a clogging nuisance and expense in pipes. This new absorption process is likely to supplant the older compression and condensation method by which about 165,000,000 gallons of gasoline were produced in the last two years. Gasoline thus obtained is especially valuable, for it can be plended with naphas otherwise unsatisfactory for automobile use and hereby made into an acceptable motor spirit. The absorption method is radically different. At present it is restricted to the treatment of large volumes of gas too lean for profitable treatment. Griffith Lumber Co. 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