anaheim-gazette 1919-06-26

VOLUME XXXXVIII U. S. NAVAL BAND MAKES HIT WITH POPULACE CONCERT ON HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS ENJOYED BY HUNDREDS OF MUSIC LOVING PEOPLE Local Theatre Crowded with Persons Anxious to Hear Music and Witness Naval Scenes.—Party to be in County All Week. The special car carrying Chief Yeoman Howard N. Smith and his band of high-brow musicians together with half a dozen singers, acrobats, elocutionists, etc., all belonging to the United States navy, rolled in on the Santa Fe Tuesday forenoon, and Mr. Smith immediately began plastering the town with patriotic posters, designed to educate the young men to the advantages of a cruise on one of Uncle Sam's warships. The department is in need of thou- her husband's, Joe Schenck's, country estate, at Bay Side, L.I. The ceremony took place last Friday, and after all the solemn pledges had been taken, they were entertained with a wedding breakfast such as only Norma Talmadge, assisted by Sister Constance and Mommer Talmadge, would know how to give. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson went at once to their home at Great Neck, where they will spend a short honeymoon before beginning work together once more on the Lasky pictures." WILL BUILD ARCHWAY Construction of a beautiful archway at the entrance to the Orange County park, which will be an enduring memorial to Orange county service men who gave their lives in the recent war, has been determined upon by the Board of Supervisors. Preliminary investigations and plans were put in the hands of a committee consisting of Supervisors N. T. Edwards of Orange, S. H. Finley of Santa Ana, and H. A. Wassum of Tustin. The archway cannot be completed by the time of the big county reception to service men at the park on September 9, but it is planned to lay the cornerstone of the arch on that day with dedicatory services led by Governor Stephens, who will be present. The supervisors committee will get MANY BUILDERS GOING UP ANAHEM CONTRACTORS BUSINESS SPLENDID NEW FOR THE M. E. C. Baby Lodge of Elks will Construction on Mosk Building in County Work on La Apartments The Methodist church adelphia street, which b congregation for a numb a house of worship, is second hand lumber, ha molished to clear the site low court. The old paring is being moved to a ger street, the ground o church and residence ha to the Anaheim Improv company, which will imme-ten apartment bungalow The special ear carrying Chief Tootman Howard N. Smith and his band of high-brow musicians together with half a dozen singers, acrobats, elocutionists, etc., all belonging to the United States navy, rolled in on the Santa Fe Tuesday forenoon, and Mr. Smith immediately began plastering the town with patriotic posters, designed to educate the young men to the advantages of a cruise on one of Uncle Sam's warships. The department is in need of thousands of men between the ages of 17 and 35 to man the great ships of war being turned out and for other positions in the service, and Mr. Smith is in command of a recruiting squad, traveling from point to point, giving the young men an opportunity to enlist without going to the trouble of hunting up a recruiting station. The band which accompanies him is picked from the various bands belonging to the navy and is composed of 45 of the best musicians in the service. Many of them served through the war in European waters, fighting Hun sharks and guarding transports. Three of the number are bandmasters. A concert beginning at 3 o'clock was given on the high school campus in the afternoon, which was enjoyed by hundreds of citizens of this city and the surrounding country. Anaheim is a music loving community, and we have many citizens who rank high in musical circles, but we rarely have an opportunity of listening to such music as that dispensed by the white clad boys from the ships of war. The concert was given under the auspices of the Elks, who are always in the forefront in patriotic works. The chief part of the entertainment was given at the Fairyland theatre in the evening. A film depicting naval scenes was thrown on the screen during the band concert. This film had been prepared by Chief Yoeman Smith, and during its presentation Mr. Smith gave an explanatory lecture. Singing, acrobatic performances and other stunts were introduced, and for an hour the audience was given a rare treat. A medical officer accompanied the party in order to give recruits who wished to join the once over on the spot. The party left yesterday morning for Santa Ana. It will remain in the county the entire week, winding up Saturday evening at Balboa. NEW PRICE FOR FORDSONS Down goes the price of the Fordson tractor. Right in line with Henry Ford's policy of giving the best he can for the money, comes the announcement that the price has been lowered $135. and the factory price now is $750 instead of $885. George Dunton the local manager, says there has been a big demand for the tractor and the demand will be still greater. A drop in prices in this day of high prices and upward tendencies is something of a surprise, and will result in flooding the agents and factories with orders. In fact, it is now almost necessary to place an order in advance to get a machine. The reason for the big demand for the Fordson tractor is due to the fact that everybody knew that Henry Ford would not make a tractor unless it was right in every way. The tractor was put to extensive trials and experiments covering a period of years. Before placing the machine on the market, every detail was thoroughly tried out under actual farming conditions in various parts of the United States and in other countries as well. Prince Resigns As H. S. Head Accepts Position as Principal of Calipatria Schools—Prof. J. A. Clayes Elected Head of Anaheim High School. At the meeting of the high school investigations and plans were put in the hands of a committee consisting of Supervisors N. T. Edwards of Orange, S. H. Finley of Santa Ana, and H. A. Wassum of Tustin. The archway cannot be completed by the time of the big county reception to service men at the park on September 9, but it is planned to lay the cornerstone of the arch on that day with dedicatory services led by Governor Stephens, who will be present. The supervisors committee will get busy at once and secure detailed plans and estimates of the cost of the "Victory" arch. The supervisors have been planning a program of improvement for the county park which will increase its usefulness and beauty, and a landscape architect will probably be employed to see that the archway fits in with other contemplated improvements. Another old building that a good purpose but no usefulness and must give thing better, is the Center less than sixty days after the money voted by the people of the schools a modern building will be on the ground now encumbered old one. The new structure ten rooms, the estimating $70,000. Most of it maining of the bond issue in the erection of a privateergarten school on Citrusville Fremont. Certain members of may have an inclination little, but they declared Elks hall which they are build on North Lemont, the most beautiful built county. Plans have not accepted as the building not like to take the reservation to submit the mason of the lodge, but it is have completed plans, the matter will be settled meeting. A lot between apartment house and B undertaking parlors was chased of Theodore Roosevelt and on this lot a building... POPULAR SCENARIO WRITER BECOMES A BRIDE Miss Anita Loos Married to Lesky Director. Anita Loos, daughter of R. Beers Loos, a former Anaheim newspaper man, was married recently to John Emerson, director of the Famous Players-Lasky company. Miss Loos is a noted motion picture writer, at one time writing all of Doug Fairbanks' plays. She frequently visited her father while he resided here and became acquainted with many people here. Speaking of the marriage a Los Angeles paper says: "Another of our prophecies has come true, and another June bride has been added to the list, while at the same time the hopes of the bride and groom to just steal away and say nothing to anybody went crash. "The happy two are Anita Loos, scenario writer for Famous Players-Lasky Company, and John Emerson, the well-known director of the same organization. Just so that it would be a party entirely suitable to the station in life of the contracting parties, Norma Talmadge invited them to be married under the sylvan shades of the greenwood trees on States and in other countries as well." Prince Resigns As H. S. Head Accepts Position as Principal of Calipatria Schools—Prof. J. A. Clayes Elected Head of Anaheim High School. At the meeting of the high school trustees Friday evening Prof. C. R. Prince, who for the past three years has been principal of the schools, tendered his resignation, announcing that he had been offered a better position elsewhere. The resignation was accepted and the trustees elected Prof. J. A. Clayes principal for the coming year. Prof. Clayes has been teacher of a branch in the school for several years past, and the fact that the board saw fit to advance him to the responsible position of principal of the institution indicates that he has made good. Prof. Thomas Askin, of the music department, and Miss Bella Walker, teacher of English, were elected assistant principals. Action regarding the balance of the faculty has not yet been taken. Prof. Prince has been elected supervising principal of the schools at Calipatria, in the Imperial Valley. He has been connected with the Anaheim high school for the past eight years, serving as assistant principal for five years. When Dr. E. W. Hauck resigned to take charge of the Fullerton high school Mr. Prince was chosen to take his place. For three years past he has been principal of the schools. His departure will be regretted by a wide circle of friends, but their good wishes will follow him to his new field. Only half a block away ground on which the house be erected, the La Masse house is now being built will be a valuable addition substantial buildings. The way the work is will not be many we large structure is complex people are no doubt and forward to that day and find comfortable homes. The building will havements, and its cost is $75,000 will be eased No. 1345, known as "The is only three years old lusty infant, much more its age implies, and will a house that will be a not only to the member but to the city. The walls of Theodore garage in the same block constructing for the Corporation rapidly going up, as he limited time in which completed building to though a large and secure this is to be more rooms of the block Mr. paring to erect on the center streets. Two-story brick building AHEIM GAZETT Anaheim, California, Thursday, June 26, 1919 MANY BUILDINGS GOING UP IN ANAHEIM CONTRACTORS BUSY ON THE SPLENDID NEW EDIFICE FOR THE M. E. CHURCH Baby Lodge of Elks will Soon Begin Construction on Most Beautiful Building in County.—Rapid Work on La Mont Apartments. The Methodist church on South Philadelphia street, which has served the congregation for a number of years as a house of worship, is now a pile of second hand lumber, having been demolished to clear the site for a bungalow court. The old parsonage adjoinig is being moved to a lot on Kroger street, the ground occupied by the church and residence having been sold to the Anaheim Improvement Company, which will immediately erect a ten-apartment bungalow court where corner of what has hitherto been known as the Deutsch tract, and has been a very convenient spot for public meetings, band concerts, etc. No longer will it be used as a play ground. In addition to the above many minor buildings are being built or contemplated, but there is a crying need for residences. The La Mont building and the bungalow court will serve the needs of forty families, but that is only a fraction of the number of people who would move in if we could make room for them. BIG REALTY DEAL G. L. Holton, it is reported, has sold his 70-acre ranch at Brookshurst, the consideration being $200,000. Sixty acres of the ranch are in Valencias, the balance in walnuts. This is the largest real estate deal reported in this neighborhood for many years. Pioneer Resident Laid to Rest Coleman Travis Passes Away at His Yorba Ranch After Long Illness.—Funeral Held in this City Saturday Morning, Burial at Santa Ana. Coleman Travis, who for nearly half a century was a resident of this TELEPHONEGIRLS STILL OUT ON STRIKE SEVENTEEN LOCAL OPERATORS REFUSE TO RETURN TO WORK UNLESS DEMANDS ARE MET Company Gets Help from Garden Grove and Riverside, Now Handling the Business with Four Girls.—Linemen All Out. Neither the Pacific Telephone Company nor the striking employees show any disposition to yield the disputed points which caused the strike one week ago yesterday, and the division between them is as wide as ever. Seventeen operators in the Anaheim office went out last Wednesday morning, leaving only the chief operator on the job, but relief was speedily secured from other points, and the service continued although in a somewhat crippled condition. The Anaheim and Fulllion offices were unionized only a Pioneer Resident Laid to Rest Coleman Travis Passes Away at His Yorba Ranch After Long Illness—Funeral Held in this City Saturday Morning, Burial at Santa Ana. Coleman Travis, who for nearly half a century was a resident of this county, died at his ranch home, Esperanza, near Yorba Thursday, after an illness of several months. He leaves a wife, two sons and two daughters, the sons being Coleman and Amos, the daughters Kate and Zoraida. The funeral was held at Backs & Terry's undertaking parlors in this city at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, mass being afterward said at St. Mary's church, Fullerton. Interment was at Fairhaven cemetery, Santa Ana. Mr. Travis was born near Mobile, Alabama, August 8, 1853, and was therefore, nearing his 66th birthday. He came to this county in 1871, his father purchasing an 800-acre tract of land near Orange. He attended school at Anaheim while residing on the ranch at Orange. He was connected with the Yorba family by marriage. Mr. Travis was active in development work in the earlier days, being one of the organizers of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Airship Promoters Making Progress Anaheim Slow in Buying Stock, but Much Encouragement Received Elsewhere—Company Proposes to Use Twelve-Passenger Planes on Line. P. H. Kroeger, representative of the United States Aerial Transportation Company, states that his company is meeting with excellent success and encouragement in its endeavors to establish an airship line from San Francisco to San Diego, but Anaheim appears to be slow in climbing aboard the bandwagon. The line is certain to be established, according to Mr. Kroeger, but unless we subscribe for enough stock to pay for a small section of ground and a depot this town will not be a port of call. The time is not far distant when any disposition to yield the disputed points which caused the strike one week ago yesterday, and the division between them is as wide as ever. Seventeen operators in the Anaheim office went out last Wednesday morning, leaving only the chief operator on the job, but relief was speedily secured from other points, and the service continued although in a somewhat crippled condition. The Anaheim and Fullerton offices were unionized only a day or two previous to the strike, but exchanges in the southern part of the county refused to join the union and submit to strike orders. The Garden Grove office was closed by the company and the girls sent to the striking points. Two of them came to Anaheim and with one from Riverside the local office now has four girls working, consequently the work is being handled, both local and long distance, although there is of necessity some delay in making connections, especially on long distance calls. Fullerton is in a worse condition than Anaheim. All service there was ordered discontinued Saturday except emergency calls. The calls practically are limited to physicians, police and fire calls, but the long distance work is taken care of. Fire broke out in the workshop at one of the Fullerton schools Friday, but connection with the fire department was made without delay. Placentia is in the same condition. At that town a physician's line got out of order, but the striking linemen repaired it without pay. All the linemen in the county are out, and no effort is being made by the company to repair the lines, except for emergency phones such as physicians. If a commercial phone gets out of order it must remain in that condition. The strikers are demanding an increased wage scale, and the company considers their demands unreasonable. They are asking $2 per day for beginners, $4 per day for experienced operators, and $6.40 per day for linemen. Under present schedule the beginner gets $9 per week. This is raised 50 cents at a time. After one year the girl is paid $11, after two years, $12, after three years $12.50, after four years $13, and after five years $13.50. That is the limit, and the girls claim it is outrageously inadequate considering the amount of work required of them, and the small purchasing power of a dollar under present conditions. Plans have not yet been accepted as the building committee does not like to take the responsibility, preferring to submit the matter to a vote of the lodge, but it is said architects have completed plans, and probably the matter will be settled at the next meeting. A lot between the Nebelung apartment house and Backs & Terry's undertaking parlors was recently purchased of Theodore Roberts for $6000, and on this lot a building, costing at least $75,000 will be erected. Lodge No. 1345, known as "The Baby Lodge," is only three years old, but it is a lusty infant, much more vigorous than its age implies, and will soon boast of a house that will be a source of pride not only to the members of the lodge but to the city. Only half a block away from the ground on which the Elks' hall is to be erected, the La Mont apartment house is now being built, and this, also will be a valuable addition to the city's substantial buildings. Judging from the way the work is progressing it will not be many weeks before the large structure is completed, and many people are no doubt anxiously looking forward to that day as they hope to find comfortable homes under its roof. The building will have thirty apartments, and its cost is $30,000. The walls of Theodore Roberts' brick garage in the same block, which he is constructing for the Cole agency, are rapidly going up, as he had only a limited time in which to deliver the completed building to the lessees. Although a large and substantial structure this is to be merely the rear rooms of the block Mr. Roberts is preparing to erect on the corner of Lemon and Center streets. This will be a two-story brick building covering the meeting with excellent success and encouragement in its endeavors to establish an airship line from San Francisco to San Diego, but Anaheim appears to be slow in climbing aboard the bandwagon. The line is certain to be established, according to Mr. Kroeger, but unless we subscribe for enough stock to pay for a small section of ground and a depot this town will not be a port of call. The time is not far distant when airplanes will be as plentiful in the atmosphere as birds, most of them running on definite paths and schedule time, and unless Anaheim capital assists the new born industry this city wont even be a flag station. You gentlemen with a little idle capital come forth- Get in the twentieth century procession and be pioneers in the navigation of the air. Only twenty-five years ago timid people could see no future for the motor vehicle, but now it is the greatest industry in the United States. Mr. Kroeger says the cars his company expect to put on the line will carry twelve passengers. Unless Anaheim subscribes enough money to construct a terminal here we will not get a station, as it is the intention of this as well as other companies, to enlist local interests in the industry, and blue pencil communities that decline to build depots. Let's climb aboard. We don't want to be mere onlookers and stand with open mouths and eyes trained skyward watching our hilarious neighbors passing by at a speed of a couple of hundred miles an hour, perhaps dropping empty bottles and other missiles on Anaheim in an endeavor to wake us up to the fact that this is the twentieth century and the world is on the move. Encouraged by statements of officials of the patent office in Los Angeles that his patent papers indicate one of the best money making propositions that ever passed through the office, and with letters patent issued, John Leck of Santa Ana will start at once on the manufacture of a demonstrating model of his bean and pea harvester. There is every chance that the factory will be located in Santa Ana. This is the home of Leck and it is his ambition to have the plant located there. His influence will be devoted in efforts to bring it to Santa Ana and he has every hope of being successful. Leck had a model ready last year in time to make a partial demonstration of the efficiency of the harvester He will build another one for a thorough test this season and if it develops that no further improvements are needed, the manufacture on a commer- Tella One o' No John Harper Angeles a d many friends and coffee, funny story from away his yarns in True. Here his wife and here some of the latter's shall. Jr. store to put little boy, a gentleman Hart engage is what John "My wife grandson wago, and th chase some wife was wily clerk, an eation with "I am M merely resid my son, Chie." "Why y'all I used to know him pur tea and son John." Mrs. Harper she beautiful though a g woman and hears what her she whi rolling pin the beezer GIRLS ON PERATORS BURN TO MANDS arden Grove handling the Girls. phone Com-ployees show the disputed strike one the division is ever. Sev-aheim office by morning,rator on the daily secured service connec-what crippelm and Ful-ized only a cial scale will be commenced. If he finds that it will be impossible to produce them in time for this season's work, he will manufacture a stock and have the machines ready for next season. The harvester promises to revolutionize the method of harvesting beans and cheapen the cost of handling. It picks up the vines and deposits them in shocks, saving the expense of men in the fields to do the stacking after the vines are cut. Under its operation two men can do the work of five, and the draft power required for the machine is a third less than cutters used today. The patent officials say that the application is one of the cleverest ever passing through the office—that is letters were issued on a larger percentage of claims than is usual. Application is made for each part, and in many instances claims are duplicated in the arrangement of applications for parts. Leck made thirty-eight claims, and twenty-four were allowed, properly protecting the harvester as designed. Los Angeles men are associated with Leck. "I have done lots of hard work in developing the machine, and last summer I thought I would go crazy," declared Leck. "I labored at a great disadvantage through lack of proper material and capital to work out my STREET WIDENING PROGEEDINGS POSTPONED CITY ATTORNEY ADVISES CENTER STREET IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BE HALTED TEMPORARILY Owners of Dreyfus Building on Corner Los Angeles and Center Streets Protest.—May Require Court Action to Settle Difficulty. The city trustees gave attention to the proposed formation of an improvement district at a special session Wednesday evening, the boundaries of which were to extend along the south side of Center street, between Los Angeles and Lemon streets, but upon the advice of the city attorney definite action was postponed for the present, owing to the passage of new legislation affecting such proceedings passed at the recent session of state law-makers. The purpose of the district is The city trustees gave attention to the proposed formation of an improvement district at a special session Wednesday evening, the boundaries of which were to extend along the south side of Center street, between Los Angeles and Lemon streets, but upon the advice of the city attorney definite action was postponed for the present, owing to the passage of new legislation affecting such proceedings passed at the recent session of state law-makers. The purpose of the district is primarily to set back the frontages of the Dreyfus building on the corner and that of the Louie Kroeger structure midway in the block. The proceedings are necessarily slow and it will require three or four months time before the commissioners' report may be secured. Messrs. Emil and Walter Dreyfus of San Francisco, owners of the building in which is located the S. Q. R. store, have sent a communication to the trustees protesting against formation of the district. What steps these gentlemen will take in the future is not known, but in all probability they will take some court action against the district. Every property holder on both sides of the street in the block, with the exception of those mentioned, have voluntarily moved their frontages to comply with the new eight foot sidewalk line. In the light of a public improvement it would appear that all property owners in the block would be benefitted by establishment of the wider street. However, it may be several months before this matter is adjudicated. Wants Investigation. John Ziegler of Hotel Valencia addressed a communication to the council protesting the action of the police in searching for a quantity of liquor belonging to him which it is claimed was private stock. Ziegler states that locks on doors leading to rooms in the basement had been opened and that a quantity of liquor had been seized. He declares the action of the officers was unwarranted and wants an investigation made. The complaint was referred to the police committee. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT Harold Henry, a returned soldier, acting as a special police at Newport Beach, will have to answer to the courts for an alleged brutal and unprovoked assault upon P. A. Gunsolus, 70 years old, at East Newport. A complaint was issued by District Attorney... Funny Story Tells One on His Wife, Lacking Proof, Nobody Believes It. John Hart was in town from Los Angeles a day or two ago, meeting his many friends hereaway, selling tea and coffee, and telling a bunch of new funny stories. John is a story teller from away back, but the trouble with his yarns is that none of them are true. Here is one which he told on his wife and daughter Belle, who were here some weeks ago accompanied by the latter's little son, Humphrey Marshall, Jr. They entered a grocery store to purchase some fruit for the little boy, and were waited upon by a gentlemanly young clerk who Mrs. Hart engaged in conversation. Here is what John says about the meeting. "My wife and Belle and my little grandson were in town not so long ago, and they went to a grocers to purchase some fruit for the little boy. My wife was waited upon by a gentlemanly clerk, and she struck up a conversation with him. "'I am Mrs. Hart,' she said, 'I formerly resided here. Maybe you know my son, Clement Sheffield?' 'Why yes I do,' replied the clerk. 'I used to go to school with him and I know him very well. We buy all of our tea and coffee from your—your son John.'" Mrs. Hart was in her youth one of the beauties of Orange county, and though a granmother, is still a lovely woman and a good looker. When she hears what John has been saying about her she will be justified in siezing the rolling pin and cloning him a biff on the beezer. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT Harold Henry, a returned soldier, acting as a special police at Newport Beach, will have to answer to the courts for an alleged brutal and unprovoked assault upon P. A. Gunsolus, 70 years old, at East Newport. A complaint was issued by District Attorney West, with Mrs. Hattie Gunsolus, wife of the man assaulted, as the complaining witness. Henry struck Gunsolus over the head with his pistol following an altercation with Gunsolus' son, Hobart Gunsolus, teller in the People's Savings and Trust Bank. Riverside. His trial was set for July 16. After arresting an alleged traffic violator, Henry returned to young Gunsolus who was said to have spoken sharply to the officer when the latter passed, and arrested him. A scuffle followed in which Henry was the aggressor, it is said. Gunsolus, Sr., went to the assistance of his son, but did not know that the man his son was battling with was an officer. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE The Orange league at a meeting at Pomona fixed the schedule for football next fall. On October 18 Santa Ana and Fullerton High Schools are to play at Santa Ana. October 15 Pomona and Fullerton play at Pomona. Fullerton and Orange play at Fullerton November 1, and November 15 Fullerton takes on Whittier at this place. Anaheim and Huntington Beach will not have teams in the league the coming year.