anaheim-gazette 1917-10-11

L. A. ENGINEER WILL HELP ON HIGHWAY KOEBIG & KOEBIG TO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH SURVEY-OR McBRIDE ON CANYON ROAD NOV. 7 FIXED AS DATE FOR HEARING PETITION TO VACATE STREETS IN ANAHEIM CEMETERY The communication of Koebig & Koebig relative to the Santa Ana canyon road was ordered filed by the supervisors at last week's session. Koebig & Koebig in conjunction with the county surveyor were ordered to prepare plans and specifications for the protection of the Santa Ana canyon road, and Supervisor Finley appointed a committee of one to assist in the preparation of said plans and specifications. Supervisors Leck and Finley were appointed by the chairman as a committee to investigate the purchase of a Ford automobile for the detention home. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase a Ford auto for the forestry department. The election returns of the Anaheim Yorba storm water district were canvassed, and W. G. Mason, Joseph Fiscuus and Archie Henry were declared elected trustees of said district. The bond of the trustees of the Anaheim Yorba storm water district was thought in exceptional cases a few older men of pronounced athletic attainments may be accepted. Candidates must be of the highest character, well educated and of good physique. They must be mentally alert, physically perfect, and have well disciplined minds and bodies. While in the 8-weeks' course in the school of military aeronautics, and in the flying school course which follows, they will receive $100 a month pay and sixty cents daily allowance for rations. On completing their training and passing the necessary tests, they will be commissioned as reserve military aviators or junior military aviators. The course given the young aviators by the university includes the necessary preliminary training in the use of machine guns, wireless telegraphy, the operation and care of aeronautical motors, the assemblying and care of airplanes, the principles of aerial tactics, cooperation with other branches of the service, and the fundamental principles of cross country and general flying. On completing successfully the course in the ground school, candidates are sent for training in flying to aviation schools in various parts of the United States and abroad. Some men are able to complete the course in the flying school and qualify for a commission at the end of one month; others require longer. At the flying school instruction is continued also in machine guns, signaling, aerial tactics, and other subjects. ORANGE COUNTY BOY TALKS ON CAMP LIFE Men at Camp Lewis Longing for a Glimpse of Sunshine George H. Platt, one of the Orange county boys at Camp Lewis, writes to a friend as follows: In the first ten large California was the ganize county council part of the war pro- of the state councily one other state-ized their counties set by California. California was o en states to recruit to full war streng months after war many states it is guard organizations ed up to full war. California was ther Union to organize gineering and invest war inventions off This committee, co of the most eminent gineers in the state more than 20 new for adoption by the department. WEALTH OF Possibly it is a per capita wealth counties so careless ligate, in their ex-At the beginning ing fiscal year, acco the state controller of the 57 c642,332. This ex-county of San Fran- itant of the count percapita basis, re- ed valuation of $1 The assessed var property, includin $447,069,699, or $1 non operative pro- or $878.72 per capita Little Alpine co sessed valuation, percapita—$3,862.7 ORANGE COUNTY BOY TALKS ON CAMP LIFE Men at Camp Lewis Longing for a Glimpse of Sunshine George H. Platt, one of the Orange county boys at Camp Lewis, writes to a friend as follows: None of the Orange county boys are on the hospital list. They are all fine and dandy. They are learning fast and are the life of the regiment. Bob Collins received a request from the Y. M. C. A. to teach a Bible class and accepted. About ten of us went to Seattle yesterday. It is a fine boat ride over there. Seattle is a very beautiful and busy city. Every time the sun shines we get homesick, it seems so much like dear old Orange county. Sunshiny days here are as scarce as gloomy days in Orange county. The roads around camp are just crowded with soldiers all the time and I sometimes wonder what will be done when another 20,000 get here. The transportation facilities are very poor and it is a hard trip to Tacoma. It would do you good to see all the boys here. They are industrious and ambitious and you can find groups of them all over the grounds helping each other with signal practice and drilling of their own free will and accord. The officers are giving lessons in hygiene and French every evening: Although it is not compulsory to attend, the rooms are always full of boys with their ears wide open. To illustrate the spirit of the boys here, I will recite a little incident which happened a few days ago. One of the boys from Los Angeles in this company received a telegram telling him of the serious illness of his wife. He did not have enough money to pay his expenses home, and at supper one of the boys announced it to the company. It took less than five minutes to raise $75 for him. It seems now that the government has decided to fill up all the vacant ground here with new buildings, for everywhere one looks he sees new buildings springing up. The parade grounds, about 5000 acres, are hardly large enough to drill the men on now. It is a great sight to see the men drill machine guns, signaling, aerial tactics, and other subjects. The assessed property, including $447,069,699, or $11 non operative property or $878.72 per capita. Little Alpine co-sessed valuation, percapita—$3,862.72 to her small population was only $760. Sierra, with a 026, showed only a way below the stair with a little large per capita of quite above the average. The three counties est per capita value $596.37; Nevada, docino, $636.01. Tion was over 13,38th place among vada had over 8½,46th place, while over 18½ million places. Aside from Alpies having the same were: Del Norte, 703.83; and Fresno point of actual as Norte ranked 51st Fresno was third. In assessed valley county led with $capita of $1,285.42 second with $262.72 of $848.26. No Sacramento ported over $900,000 counties classes follows. 80 to 90 million 80 million, San 60 to 70 million, to 60 million, Co Tulare; 40 to 50 to 40 million, R bara, San Mateo, Stanislaus, Ventura million, Merced, Marin, San Luis Santa Cruz; 15 Mendocino, Glenndera, Colusa, Telion, Placer, Sutterba, Lassen, San B Tuolumne, Nevada El Dorado, Amado million, Lake, Man Sierra; less than H. Clay Kellogg, contractor, was given an extension of time to Oct. 10, 1917, for completion of contract on Santa Ana Canyon road. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase a lathe for the county garage. The resignation of R. McCarthy, constable of Tustin Judicial Township was accepted. The hearing of the petition for the vacation of certain portions of streets and alleys in Anaheim cemetery, Anaheim road district, was set for Nov. 7, 1917, at 10 a.m. TEACH AVIATION AT UNIVERSITY That young aviators in a steady stream are to have opportunity to receive their ground training at the University of California, as a preliminary to winning commissions in the aviation service, has been notified to the university by the army. New particulars as to how to become a military aviator have just been communicated to the schools division of the office of the Chief Signal Officer. Candidates for admission to this 8-weeks' ground school for aviation, maintained at the university by the aviation service, should apply at the aeronautical office maintained by the U. S. army in the Santa Fe building in San Francisco. The flying officer is not an aerial chauffeur nor an exhibition flyer, says the army announcement. The flying officer has been more correctly defined as a 20th century cavalry officer mounted on Pegasus. The war department announces that no young men will be admitted to the aviation schools who are not in every way qualified and fitted to become officers of the U. S. army. Candidates for commissions as flying officers must be between the ages of 19 and 30, al- CALIFORNIA'S PROUD WAR RECORD In response to the nation's plea for increased crop production, 80 per cent of California's farmers increased their yield more than 30 per cent over 1916. California's response to the demand for more foodstuffs has been so concerted, patriotic and effective that it has been held up as an example for other states to follow in public speeches by the secretary of agriculture. California's state council of defense was the second to be organized in the United States after the declaration of war. Massachusetts, the only state in the Union to precede California, had state council several weeks before war was decalred. Every state in the Union now has a state council and California's method of organization has been followed out among more than 80 per cent of these councils. California was one of the first two states in the Union to report to President Wilson that its registration of male citizens under the draft act had been completed. New York led the nation in subscribing to the first Liberty loan, but California showed her patriotism by being On November 14, man's Missionary held at Whittier, ers on the program of note. Among gar Geil, M. A., mous African expo world's greatest visited practicallyrica, Asia, Australia has crossed China lowed the line o Africa. Out of th have registered bet, Nepal, Bhutanments, Borneo, N. the Friendly Island other islands of crossing Agrica tribes of pigmies a treaty of brother tan of the pigmies eternal twilight. Probably Mr. G savage and pagan er explorer of most etrated cannibal Mt. Douglas, visit of Borneo and men in the South Geil is a graduate of Easton, Pa., a scientific societ Anaheim Gazette in the first ten largest oversubscribers. California was the first state to organize county councils of defense as a part of the war preparedness program of the state council of defense. Third one other states have since organized their counties after the pattern set by California. California was one of the first dozen states to recruit her national guard to full war strength within three months after war was declared. In many states it is reported that the guard organizations are not yet recruited up to full war strength. California was the first state in the Union to organize a committee on engineering and inventions to pass upon war inventions offered by her citizens. This committee, composed of twenty of the most eminent scientists and engineers in the state, has recommended more than 20 new war making devices for adoption by the United States war department. WEALTH OF COUNTIES Possibly it is a knowledge of large per capita wealth which makes our counties so careless, and often so profligate, in their expenditures. At the beginning of the last preceding fiscal year, according to reports to the state controller, the assessed valuation of the 57 counties was $2,821,642,332. This excludes the city and county of San Francisco. Each inhabitant of the counties, therefore, on a per capita basis, represented an assessed valuation of $1,044.17. The assessed valuation of operative property, including railroads, was $447,069,699, or $165.44 per capita; of non operative property, $2,374,572,633, or $878.72 per capita. Little Alpine county, peorest in assessed valuation, yet had the highest per capita—$3,862.73. That was owing low of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of many books on the lands he has visited and explored. He has lectured in every English speaking country. William F. Stead, the late English journalist, said of him: "Here is a man of gifts, a speaker who can hold great audiences, a traveler who has seen things; who, having a great deal to say, knows how to say it." Mr. Gell knows by personal observation the life and environment of the people of the world who have not been touched by Christianity and he has seen the transformation which the gasel has made. KOEBIG WILL FINISH THE CANYON ROAD Los Angeles Engineer Selected to Oversee the Job Whatever protective work is necessary to make the Santa Ana canyon job at Sulphur Slide permanent is going to be done. Tuesday the board of supervisors entered into a verbal agreement with A. H. Koebig, Jr., Los Angeles engineer, whereby he is to draw the plans and specifications and have general supervision of the work for whatever wrings he may consider necessary for the completion of the job. H. Clay Kellogg will be through with his contract in the canyon within a few days. Supervisor F. W. Struck so stated at the canyon job hearing. From the first it has been understood by all concerned that some kind of protective work would have to be established to make the concrete slab wall built at Sulphur Slide safe from going out with floods. H. Clay Kellogg, engineer and contractor, who drew the plans for the wall, has always declared that the wall would stand风雨 without any pro- NO INCREASE IN GAS The petition of the Southern Counties Gas Company for an increase in rates on gas supplied for industrial purposes has been dismissed by the Railroad Commission and there will be no bearing on the question. Notice of the dismissal was telegraphed Attorney Garrett at Orange by the commission. Dismissal was at the request of the gas company. The opposition to the proposed raise developed in the county, and the activity of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in conjunction with city attorneys of the various cities in the county are believed to have been responsible for the company's action in asking a dismissal. The hearing on the petition was scheduled to take place at the city hall, Santa Ana Saturday morning. City Attorney Garrett of Orange, representing the city trustees and Chamber of Commerce, Ransom Reid of the city water department, Santa Ana, and others had made preparations for presenting facts, figures and arguments in opposition to the petition at the meeting. The strong oposition developed is said to have been a surprise to the company. Attorney Garrett handled the case for Orange when the gas company petitioned to increase the rates in that city two years ago, and secured a decision against the company. Thomas Askin TEACHER OF SINGING AND DRAMATIC RECITATION ANAHEIM 348-R 1/ LIFE for a Orange counties to days are all fine and we get the dear days in just one and done The us and groups of helping and and mons in evening: to at full of boys incident. One in this telling is wife. to pay over one com-minutes The city and county of San Francisco. Each inhabitant of the counties, therefore, on a percapita basis, represented an assessed valuation of $1,044.17. The assessed valuation of operative property, including railroads, was $447,069,699, or $165.44 per capita; of non operative property, $2,374,572,633, or $878.72 per capita. Little Alpine county, peorest in assessed valuation, yet had the highest percapita—$3,862.73. That was owing to her small population. Her valuation was only $764,822. Sierra, with a valuation of $2,444.026, showed only $784.60 per capita—way below the state average. Mono, with a little larger valuation, showed a per capita of $1,320.30, which is quite above the average. The three counties showing the lowest per capita valuation were: Placer, $596.37; Nevada, $604.60; and Mendocino, $636.01. Yet Placer's valuation was over 13 millions, giving her 38th place among the counties; Nevada had over 8½ millions and was in 46th place, while Mendocino showed over 18½ millions and occupied 31st place. Aside from Alpine the three counties having the highest per capita were: Del Norte, $1,838.16; Sutter, $1,703.83; and Fresno, $1,663.25. At point of actual assessed valuation Del Norte ranked 51st, Sutter 39th and Fresno was third. In assessed valuation Los Angeles county led with $991,377,277, or a percapita of $1,285.42, while Alameda was second with $262,615,761, or a percapita of $848.26. Three counties, Fresno, Sacramento and Kern—each reported over $90,000,000, and the other counties classified themselves as follows. 80 to 90 million, Santa Clara; 70 to 80 million, San Joquin, San Diego; 60 to 70 million, San Bernardino; 50 to 60 million, Contra Costa, Orange, Tulare; 40 to 50 million, Sonoma; 30 to 40 million, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Monterey, Humboldt, Stanislaus, Ventura Imperial; 20 to 30 million, Merced, Solano, Butte, Yolo, Marin, San Luis Obispo, Sliskiyou, Santa Cruz; 15 to 20 million, Napa, Mendocino, Glenn, Kings, Shasta, Madera, Colusa, Tehama; 10 to 15 million, Placer, Sutter, Inyo, Plumas, Yuba, Lassen, San Benito, 5 to 10 million, Tuolumne, Nevada, Calaveras, Modoc, El Dorado, Amador, Del Norte; 2 to 5 million, Lake Mariposa, Trinity, Mono, Sierra; less than 1 million, Alpine. From the first it has been understood by all concerned that some kind of protective work would have to be established to make the concrete slab wall built at Sulphur Slide safe from going out with floods. H. Clay Kellogg, engineer and contractor who drew the plans for the wall has always declared that the wall would stand against floods without any protective works. In that opinion however Engineer Koebig did not agree. Tuesday afternoon at a conference between Engineer Koebig County Surveyor McBride and the board of supervisors the best steps to be taken to protect the wall and maintain the road that has been built on the river bottom at the edge of a treacherous hill were discussed. It was brought out that when the Kellogg contract was let, the Koebig report was in favor of cripwing dams. These wings are to be thrown upstream with the idea that debris and sand and silt will gather in the angle and help to form an embankment. The general consensus of opinion was in favor of numerous short dams instead of three long ones. Among the difficulties in the way of completing the work are the facts that the Irvine and Bixby interests own some of the property that may be needed for the protective dams,and the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company intake is concerned. Hitherto the S.A.V.I.company each year after completing its intake has run a ditch up stream as close to the south bank as possible to gather in all the surface water possible,and some adjustments of rights with the S.A.V.I.company will be necessary. Koebig said that he would draw the plans and specifications for the work and would take general supervision of the carrying out of the contract for 6 per cent of the cost of the protective job,the county to have detailed charge of inspection.Authority for entering into the proposal was given by the county board. The motion that carried provides that Koebig shall make his plans in conjunction with County Surveyor McBride,and that Supervisor Finley shall be the committee of the board in the matter.Finley voted no on the motion. ORANGE COUNTY DANCER LAYMAN'S CONVENTION On November 14, 15 and 16, the Layman's Missionary convention will be held at Whittier, and among the speakers on the program are several men of note. Among them is William Edgar Geil, M. A., LLD., R.R.G.S., famous African explorer and one of the world's greatest travelers, who has visited practically every part of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. He has crossed China five times and followed the line of the equator across Africa. Out of the way places which have registered his footprints are Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Straits Settlements, Borneo, New Zealand, Saoma, the Friendly Island, and most of the other islands of the Pacific. When crossing Agrica he differentiated the tribes of pigmies and dwarfs and made a treaty of brotherhood with the Sultan of the pigmies, in the forest of eternal twilight. Probably Mr. Geil has seen more savage and pagan tribes than any other explorer of modern times. He penetrated cannibal New Guinea as far as Mt. Douglas, visited the head hunters of Borneo and has eaten with wild men in the South Sea Islands. Mr. Geil is a graduate of Lafayette College of Easton, Pa., a member of several scientific societies in England, a fel- ORANGE COUNTY DANCER Miss Gladys Conrad, daughter of Editor Conrad of the Huntington Beach News left a few days ago for San Francisco, where she will appear at the Orpheum theater for two weeks. The company began an engagement at the Orpheum in Los Angeles, Oct 8, and will then go to Salt Lake City and through Texas and up to New York, the tour terminating February 18. Miss Conrad appears as a partner in one of the dances with Theodore Kosloff, the famous Russian dancer. There are three women and Mr. Kosloff in the troupe and they are supposed to be Russians. Therefore, Miss Conrad's stage name is Maria Maslova. Mr. Kosloff has been in America since the outbreak of the war and is recognized as one of the world's greatest masculine dancers. Some idea may be gained of the expense these stage artists encounter when it is stated that Miss Conrad is allowed three pairs of toe slippers each week, which are worth $3.50 a pair, making an expense for the tour covering 22 weeks, of $231 for slippers alone, and this allowance may not be sufficient to cover the entire cost of slippers. The price of walnuts this year was the highest in the history of the industry in California. For No. 1's the price is fixed at 21½ cents. Griffith Lumber Co. SEE US FOR YOUR BUILDING MATERIAL In Any Amount, Large or Small South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. 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