anaheim-gazette 1927-03-10

Anaheim’s Progress Lauded by Writer Gives Sketch of City's History From Pioneer Days The following story of Anaheim, reciting its early history, its progress from its founding, and its present condition, was written by John B. Wallace, a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, and appeared in last Sunday's issue of that paper. The greater part of his article is here reproduced. He says: "The thrifty character of Anaheim needs no further proposition than a glance about its streets. Its pavements, clean-swept walks, ornamental lights, its beautiful homes and well-kept lawns, its handsome stores and office buildings tell the story better than words. A good housekeeper is known by her house. Anaheim is a good housekeeper. "Small wonder it is that Anaheim should be thrifty. Of all nations there is none more industrious and thrifty than Germany. None that know as well how to combine work and pleasure so as to get full value from both. Anaheim was founded by men of German blood. "With thrift invariably goes conservatism, and Anaheim is conservative. Its growth has been slow when compared to other communities of Southern California of much later birth. But it has been the growth of permanency. A few years ago when the oil boom came, Anaheim took a sudden spurt in building, especially in the business district, but the building was largely done by newcomers. Now the Chamber of Commerce is concentrating upon the bringing of industry to Anaheim, industry that has a payroll that will be spent among the merchants. "Anaheim is one of the oldest of our Southern California municipalities. It has survived misfortunes that would have killed other communities with less of its natural resources and lacking the sturdy faith of its residents. Like the wine upon which it was founded, it has improved with age, mellowed into a broad spirit of tolerance and to continue the simile, has also like wine worked out through nature's orderly course of fermentation the undesirable elements. "In the days of '49, San Francisco the edict of Uncle Sam via the Volstead act, the great sugar beet factory also stands idle because no one can raise sugar beets profitably on land worth $3000 an acre, but Anaheim is not worrying any more than it worried when its vineyards went 'bloole.' Four million dollars yearly from its citrus crop and another $1,000,000 from walnuts are calculated to assuage considerable grief. "Although more than 8000 acres north and east of Anaheim are proven oil land with a forest of derricks covering more than 1000 wells bringing in an annual income to Orange county of more than $50,000,000, it is significant that Anaheim advertising literature lays little stress on the oil industry, but is particularly proud of its nine packing houses where its fruit is prepared for market. "Anaheim is essentially an agricultural community. Of recent years it has made some bid for industry, especially since the development of its retail district, but it is not difficult to sense the fact that it considers agriculture the backbone of its resources. Its record of 35 years without a failure of its Valencia crop is ample warrant for this belief. To the thrifty citizens of Anaheim an orange grove in hand with unfailing yearly dividends is worth two oil wells lurking in a fog of speculation concealing ambushed promoters. They will accept oil checks with pleasure, but they don't build any air castles until they have the cash in hand. "The Valencia is queen of Anaheim, and every year they pay honor to it by means of the California Valencia Orange Show, in much the same manner that San Bernardino glorifies the navel orange. Of course the San Bernardino show is the older by a decade of so, but if the Anaheim boosters maintain the same ratio of improvement since its inception six years ago, it will not be long before they will have a spectacle that will prove a real rival to its progenitor. "In addition to its citrus and walnut industries, Anaheim is now developing a new agricultural source of wealth in the flowering bulb industry, orie to which its climate and soil are particularly adapted. "There is an element of considerable strength in Anaheim, however, that belies its industrial potentialities are as great as its agricultural resources, which are asserted to have about reached their peak. Forty acres of land have been set aside for new in- "Anaheim is one of the oldest of our Southern California municipalities. It has survived misfortunes that would have killed other communities with less of its natural resources and lacking the sturdy faith of its residents. Like the wine upon which it was founded, it has improved with age, mellowed into a broad spirit of tolerance and to continue the simile, has also like wine worked out through nature's orderly course of fermentation the undesirable elements. "In the days of '49, San Francisco was a rip-roaring, biflush city that finally got on the nerves of a number of peace-loving Germans who had emigrated there. They decided to form a colony, engage in grape culture, and the farther away from San Francisco they could get the better, they were suited." "Accordingly, they sent out a number of scouts under the leadership of George Hansen to find a suitable piece of ground for the proposed vineyard. In September, 1857, these representatives decided upon the present site of Anaheim, buying in all 1165 acres from the Spanish owner, Pacifico Ontiveras. Realtors, turn on your fans. They paid for this land, which is now worth from $3000 to $50,000 in accordance with its location. Just $2 per acre with ample supply of irrigation water guaranteed. The colony was called the Los Angeles Vineyard Company, as the land was then in Los Angeles county, the property divided into 50 tracts or lots, and after the irrigating ditches had been dug, vines planted and willows set out to fence the colony from the thousands of cattle that roamed the plains, a grand drawing was held three years later. "Each colonist had been assisted $1200 to pay for the improvements and land and a price was put on each parcel by appraisers. These values ranged from $600 to $1400, and in the lottery by means of which the lots were awarded the drawer paid in the difference between his original investment of $1200 if his lot exceeded that sum or was refunded the difference if it came under it. "The name Anaheim was selected in a San Francisco hotel at the suggestion of a Mr. Schmid, whose daughters are living in the city their father named. It is a combination of Ana for the Santa Ana river and the German word 'helm' meaning home, therefore literally a home on the Santa Ana river. "Formal possession, by the colonists was taken in December, 1859. Like all pioneers, they found life to be no bed of roses. Not one man in the colony had ever grown grapes and only one man knew how to make wine. They had to haul all their supplies from Los Angeles, a two days' trip in those days of bad roads and horse and ox transportation. "Eventually they established a landing on the ocean, 12 miles distant, where supplies were taken off ships in deep water and brought in by small boats. This port was called Anaheim Landing. "In 1860 the original vineyard company merged into the Anaheim Water Garden which sunk an artesian well" "Proper Vaccination" In addition to its citrus and walnut industries, Anaheim is now developing a new agricultural source of wealth in the flowering bulb industry, one to which its climate and soil are particularly adapted. There is an element of considerable strength in Anaheim, however, that believes its industrial potentialities are as great as its agricultural resources, which are asserted to have about reached their peak. Forty acres of land have been set aside for new industries to go with those already established. Chief among the industries which today represent an investment of $2,500,000 is the plant of the Crystal Chemical Company, a glass factory, an asphalt plant and a large meat packing house. The chemical works makes around 1,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol a year from molasses, as well as producing important byproducts such as carbon dioxide gas for use in soda fountains and some 4000 tons of fertilizer annually. The little school started in an adobe building with one teacher in 1859 has expanded into six beautiful grade schools and a magnificent vocational high school. Eleven stately churches represent practically all denominations. Service clubs and fraternal orders of all the 57 varieties have flourishing representatives in Anaheim, some of them, notably the Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, owning artistic buildings and clubhouses. Within two blocks of the main business district is a beautiful 29-acre park with one of the finest swimming pools in the state, tennis courts, baseball grounds, bowling greens and last, but not least, a battery of courts for that most popular sport of pitching horseshoes, at which the Anaheim burghers can vie with the Iowa farmers from Long Beach. This park, with its fully equipped picnic grounds, is a true recreational center. The only thing lacking strangely enough, for a community of such music lovers as Germans usually are, is a municipal band. Anaheim has had its reverses, but they have only proved that nothing can daunt a thrity, industrious citizenry. The little Adobe-lined street of three quarters of a century ago is now flanked by imposing business blocks, hotels and剧院s. Where once horses and buggies stood at the hitching rails, shining automobiles are now parked against the curb and the old watering troughs have metamorphosed into gasoline stations. The saloons where once the elders were wont to foregather in the evening and play pinchole-and solo, have given way to banks and office buildings, and no one is really sorry, even though they may heave a sigh for the good old days. The old-timers of Anaheim came honestly by their taste for beer, but the sparkling juice of the Valencia is what is putting the pep into their descendants." was taken in December, 1854. Like all pioneers, they found life to be no bed of roses. Not one man in the colony had ever grown grapes and only one man knew how to make wine. They had to haul all their supplies from Los Angeles, a two days' trip in those days of bad roads and horse and ox transportation. "Eventually they established a landing on the ocean, 12 miles distant, where supplies were taken off ships in deep water and brought in by small boats. This port was called Anaheim Landing." "In 1860 the original vineyard company merged into the Anaheim Water Company, which sunk an artesian well for domestic water, irrigation water being brought from the Santa Ana river. In 1873 another water company, (known as the Cajon Irrigation Company) was formed, which tapped the Santa Ana river 15 miles away at Bed Rock canyon. These water rights have since been acquired by the Anaheim Union Water Company. "Differing from Spanish colonies, which always erected a church the first thing, Anaheim colonists put up a school building as their first public edifice. The first church was the Presbyterian, which was built in 1872. An Episcopal church followed in 1875, and a Catholic church a year later. "For some twenty-five years Anaheim enjoyed the distinction of being the largest vineyard in the world. Then in 1885 a strange disease attacked its vines, which, within less than five years had destroyed them entirely. A terrific loss, but one which the young colony met right manfully. The colonists planted sugar beets, built a couple of breweries, a tanning yard to take care of the hides from the great cattle ranches that surrounded them, built a planing mill and a grist mill and divided their moribund vineyards into building lots, as Southern California was then beginning to enjoy its first boom. It was about this time also that attention began to be paid to the great possibilities of citrus fruits, and many planted orchards of lemons and oranges which were later to lay the foundation for the present prosperity of this, the greatest Valencia district in the state. "The breweries are closed through Proper Vaccination For Control of Roup According to W. M. Cory, assistant farm advisor, a scientific study of roup in poultry, one of the most serious fowl diseases, supports the conclusion that proper vaccination is one of the most effective means for reducing this source of loss. The study was conducted by Dr. George W. Stiles and Dr. Hubert Bunyea, both of the bureau of animal industry, United States department of agriculture. In a recent scientific paper, "Vaccination and Medication for Control of Roup," Dr. Bunyea reports the following conclusions, based on experiments: Birds about one year old appear to be more susceptible to roup than those two years old or older under the same conditions. The use of antiseptics in the drinking water (permanganate of potash, and bichloride of mercury, in particular) does not appear to have any appreciable curative virtue and very little preventive property. The local external application of solutions of mercurochrome, or silver nitrate, is not very effective in the prevention or treatment of roup. Bacterins prepared fro mthe bacteria involved in outbreaks of roup appear to be effective in the prevention of disease as well as the treatment of incipient cases, even under unfavorable climatic conditions. Two kinds of bacterins have proved effective, one made from bacteria occurring in a single troughs have metamorphosed into gasoline stations. "The saloons where once the elders were wont to foregather in the evening and play pinochelle and solo, have given way to banks and office buildings, and no one is really sorry, even though they may heave a sigh for the good old days. "The old-timers of Anaheim came honestly by their taste for beer, but the sparkling juice of the Valencia is what is putting the pep into their descendants." GREAT TOTAL The present year is greatest in history; way development, amount by the engineer the Automobile Club form county and state total of $75,000,000 yr 1927. While the estimate general, it is believed fairly accurate. It is expected that motor vehicles will go 000 during the preset way bill, which is an legislature, will be $10,000,000 in state appropriation for forest aid of state roads with 500,000 making a total of $37,500,000. Half of the gasolene state is turned into oil in which it originates to these millions that the counties work in highway work made known,the will spend $25,000,000. During the past city, county and come to realize that today is to widen,s wise improve existing ever-increasing rather than to buh has been demonstrable outbreak and one number of outbreaks. The progress of influenced by "se meaning bacteria w dition to the chief w disease. The use treating a consider try flocks affected encouraging results ANAHEIM GAZETTE Beachites Demand Own High School Want to Separate Themselves From Santa Ana Declaring that they will carry their fight for a high school into the courts if necessary, residents of Newport Beach, who are agitating a movement for a high school separate from the Santa Ana polytechnic high school, announce that the issue might become a test case of the law governing the matter. Lew H. Wallace, prominent Newport Beach banker, who is fostering the movement in Newport Beach, declared that he could see no reason why Newport Beach and vicinity could not withdraw from the Santa Ana school district. Wallace declared that the people of Newport Beach would base their argument on the fact that they are taxed without representation. Despite the fact that Newport Beach and vicinity pays almost one-fifth of the maintenance of the Santa Ana high school, residents of Newport Beach are not allowed to vote on school trustees or to elect a representative of their own, Wallace declared today. Wallace's statement regarding the next movement of the harbor district on the school matter followed the statement of County Superintendent R. P. Mitchell, to the effect that it would be impossible for Newport Beach to withdraw from the Santa Ana city school district. "Residents of the Newport harbor district will not be satisfied with a high school established here by Santa Ana. They wish a high school of their own." Wallace said. He pointed out that the city school district, as applied in Santa Ana, differed greatly from the districts in other communities. Usually the city school district is kept within the incorporate city limits of the town. "At present," he said, "Newport Beach, Balboa and Costa Mesa are paying an exorbitant price to have a few children educated in high school. They are not reaping the benefits of having a high school in their own community, and many children who graduate from grammar school in the harbor district are not attending high school because not develop travel, but travel develops roads. It is the distribution of people that makes travel, and roads must be furnished to meet the needs of population centers and well defined needs of business. Scaly Bark and Gum Disease must be controlled if you care to make profits in citrus. Have this work done by experienced and reliable men working under the direction of the well-known citrus authority, Dr. J. E. Colt of Pasadena. For inspection and estimate of cost address—Coit Agricultural Service, 535 Prescott Street, Pasadena, Cal. NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER'S SALE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ORANGE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BREA a corporation. Plaintiff, B. A. WHITESIDE and LAURA WHITESIDE, husband and wife, and J. A. GOETZ. Defendants. Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale and Decree of Foreclosure and Writ for the Enforcement of Judgment issued out of the Superior Court of State of California, in and for the County of Orange. In the above named plaintiff obtained a judgment and Decree of Foreclosure against the above named defendants on the 10th day of December, 1926, for the sum of $736.00 lawful money of the United States besides interest and costs, which judgment and decree was on the 24th day of January, 1927, recorded in judgment book Volume 20 of said Court, at page 271. I am commanded to sell at public auction, in the manner prescribed by law, all that certain real property situated in the Township of Anahiem, County of Orange, State of California, and described as follows: to-wit: Lot numbered Seventy-four (74). in Tract One Hundred Sixty-one (86). NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT Anaheim Eucalyptus Water Company, location principal place of business, R. R. 3, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a regular meeting of the board of directors, held on the 14th day of February, 1927, assessment No. 23 of Three ($3.00) Dollars per share was levied on the Capital Stock of the Corporation, payable at the office of the Secretary of Company, at Anahiem, Orange County, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 16th day of March, 1927, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction and unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 11th day of April, 1927, at 8 o'clock P.M., to pay delinquent assessment together with the cost of advertising and expenses of sale. ANAHEIM EUCALYPTUS WATER CO. By M. E. BEEBE, Secretary. 2-17-4t NOTICE OF SALE OF STOCK FOR DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT PACIFIC MAUSOLEUM COMPANY, WITH ITS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS AT 211 W. CHARTHAM STREET, CITY OF ANAHIEIM, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. NOTICE OF SALE FOR DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there is delinquent upon the following described stock, on account levied on the 10th day of January. He pointed out that the city school district, as applied in Santa Ana, differed greatly from the districts in other communities. Usually the city school district is kept within the incorporate city limits of the town. "At present," he said, "Newport Beach, Balboa and Costa Mesa are paying an exorbitant price to have a few children educated in high school. They are not reaping the benefits of having a high school in their own community, and many children who graduate from grammar school in the harbor district are not attending high school because of the distance from the school." Wallace also declared today that residents of Cost Mesa and Newport Beach are unsatisfied with the way in which Santa Ana school authorities have handled matters pertaining to the junior high school. He pointed out that the harbor district pays its share of the maintenance of the junior high schools of Santa Ana. The junior high schools care for the seventh, eighth and ninth grade students. Costa Mesa and Newport Beach grammar schools include the seventh and eighth grades. Parents in the harbor district are at liberty to send their children to the junior high school, according to Wallace, but the majority of parents does not wish to send small children, hardly in their teens, 11 miles to a school when they can have the same advantages at home. Wallace asserted that residents of the harbor district no longer desire to pay for the education of seventh and eighth grade students in the junior high schools of Santa Ana in addition to educating their own children in their own grammar schools. Figures, prepared by Wallace and H. E. Ensign, principal of the Newport Beach grammar school, show that residents of Newport Beach are paying an average of 53 cents per $100 assessed valuation to educate 360 grammar school students and are paying an average of 93 cents per $100 assessed valuation to educate 37 high school students. Wallace pointed out. Wallace intimated today that steps probably would be taken to secure a change in the law governing the school separation question here, to allow Newport Beach to form its own high school district. The seriousness with which harbor district people are taking the high school matter is shown in Costa Mesa, where three men, circulating petitions for a high school district, have secured the signatures of more than 220 heads of families in less than two days. Petitions are being circulated in Newport Beach and Balboa this week. It is expected that more than 1000 signatures will be secured. GREAT TOTAL FOR ROADS The present year promises to be the greatest in history in California highway development, according to a statement by the engineering department of the Automobile Club of Southern California. It is indicated that on city, county and state highways a grand total of $75,000,000 will be spent during PACIFIC MAUSOLEUM COMPANY, WITH ITS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS AT 211 W. CHARTRES STREET, CITY OF ANAHEIM, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there is delinquent upon the following described stock, on account of assessment levied on the 10th day of January, 1927, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as follows: No. of No.of Name Critce Shares Amount J.A.Knapp.....81 10,000 $1,000.00 Nettle H.Mayes.....117 2,000 $200.00 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of Directors, made on the 10th day of January, 1927, so many shares of each parcel of sold stock as may be necessary will be sold at the office of sald corporation, to wit: at 211 W. Chartres Street. City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on the 8th day of March, 1927, at the hour of ten o'clock of such day, to pay the delinquent assessments thereon, together with costs of advertising and expenses of the sale. R.E.NEBELUNG, Secretary, Pacific Mausoleum Company, 211 W. Chartres Street, Anaheim, California. (Corporate Seal) NEW ACCOUNTS WELCOMED THIS “HOME BANK” welcomes New Depositors and gladly assists them when financial aid or advice is needed. “The Bank With the Friendly Feeling” is the way some folks know us, for truly the problems of the local people interest the local bank. Come in and talk it over. ANAHEIM NATIONAL BANK Center at Lemon GREAT TOTAL FOR ROADS The present year promises to be the greatest in history in California highway development, according to a statement by the engineering department of the Automobile Club of Southern California. It is indicated that on city, county and state highways a grand total of $75,000,000 will be spent during 1927. While the estimates made are quite general, it is believed that they are fairly accurate. In round numbers, it is expected that the state taxes on motor vehicles will bring about $24,000,-000 during the present year. The highway bill, which is expected to pass the legislature, will bring an additional $10,000,000 in state funds. Federal appropriation for forest road and federal aid of state roads will approximate $3,-500,000, making a total turned into the state of $37,500,000. Half of the gasoline tax collected by the state is turned back into the counties in which it originates, but in addition to these millions, it is estimated that the counties will spend $13,000,000 in highway work. According to plans made known, the cities of the state will spend $25,000,000 in 1927. During the past years, engineers and city, county and state officials have come to realize that the big problem of today is to widen, straighten and otherwise improve existing travel demands, rather than to build new roads. It has been demonstrated that roads do outbreak and one from infections in a number of outbreaks. The progress of roup is appreciably influenced by "secondary invaders," meaning bacteria which develop in addition to the chief virus that causes the disease. The use of vaccination in treating a considerable number of poultry flocks affected with roup gave very encouraging results. ANAHEIM NATIONAL BANK Center at Lemon Victor D. Loly Audit Co. Public Accountants and Auditors INCOME TAX MATTERS D. L. WINANS, Mgr. Rm. 207-8 S. Kraemer Bldg Phone 819 Anaheim, Calif. QUALITY—SERVICE A HOME INDUSTRY For Good Work Call 159 That Good Laundry Where quality and service is unexcelled Economy Laundry 808 N. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, California ANAHEIM'S ESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Now that they have acquired Tris Speaker, the people of Washington are much more interested in the coming pennant race than the coming war with Mexico. An European philosopher declares that Americans are deficient in real intelligence, but anyhow we know enough to keep out of European entanglements. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT Anaheim Union Water Company, location of principal place of business, 303 East Center Street, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the 21st day of February, 1927, assessment No. 68 of $5.00 per share was levied on the capital stock of the corporation, payable at once to the Secretary of the company at Anaheim, Orange County, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 20th day of April, 1927, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction and, unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 15th day of June, 1927, at one o'clock P.M., to pay for delinquent assessments, together with cost of advertising and expense of sale. L. J. SHERIDAN, Secretary, Anaheim Union Water Company, 303 East Center Street, Anaheim, California. 2-24-3t New Indiana Tractors Will Use All Horse-Drawn Tools $375—Easy Terms W. P. McCARTHY J. W. Truxaw, M. D. 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