anaheim-gazette 1934-02-15

IN THE DAYS OF Extracts From Files of The Gazette Issued Half a Century and a Quarter of a Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK FEBRUARY 25, 1909 Saturday kept up the record for big crowds in town, and while the number fell off from other high-water marks the cause was easily attributable to the windy weather which blew up from the see and the overhanging clouds threatening rain. There were many in town, coming from many sections of the county, but it must be admitted that the number was disappointing for a recordbreaking number had been looked for. Everything was in order for the expected crowd, when the bright sunshine was changed into a raw chilly day. Rain threatened and during the evening showers fell. At the sales yards Auctioneer McKee did his level best to put enthusiasm into the assemblage of listless buyers, but he had a hard job of it. A heavy farm wagon which had seen service, was knocked down at $15; a top buggy brought $8.50; a fresh cow, $28; a mule $60; and two diminutive burros $10 each; a saddle pony $60; a buggy $27; and a white horse was sold to a boy for $10. Auctioneer McKee announced that he had a number of fine horses booked for the March sale on the third Saturday of that month. It is expected that temporary pens will be erected for displaying pigs, poultry and other stock. The water board on Saturday awarded the contract for erecting the new headquarters office for the water company to Schindler and Robertson of this city and Los Angeles for $5890. Eleven bids were opened, the highest being that of a Los Angeles firm which bid $9044. Work upon the building will begin immediately, the site being the northeast corner of Hedwig and Center streets. It was moved that the plans for an office building as prepared by Frank H. Peters architect, be and they are hereby accepted. It was moved that the bid of Schindler & Robertson be and is hereby accepted. Assemblyman Melrose arrived from Sacramento on Saturday Our record o at 2 p.m., up to 11.83 inches. O downpour of Su The fall on tha all or a total for much for the w country looked the ostrich farr was done. The by brush and r ed through a pa apprehension, a North Anaheim which the water one of practical through all right was completely reached here th Thursday aftern to Los Angeles here and took tween Anaheim at some places just north of to away, leaving th over New River gone and it will repaired to pern has a large force The water board on Saturday awarded the contract for erecting the new headquarters office for the water company to Schindler and Robertson of this city and Los Angeles for $5890. Eleven bids were opened, the highest being that of a Los Angeles firm which bid $9044. Work upon the building will begin immediately, the site being the northeast corner of Hedwig and Center streets. It was moved that the plans for an office building as prepared by Frank H. Peters architect, be and they are hereby accepted. It was moved that the bid of Schindler & Robertson be and is hereby accepted. Assemblyman Melrose arrived from Sacramento on Saturday evening, remaining until Tuesday, when he returned north on the Owl. Mr. Melrose is chairman of the Southern California delegation and has come prominently forward during the legislative session at the state capitol. He took an active hand in the defeat of the anti-alien bills, speaking upon the floor of the house against the several Johnson bills, and appearing for Gov. Gillette and Speaker Phil Stanton. Melrose is a foreigner himself, or was fifty years ago when he came to this country from Scotland, not knowing a word of English. Melrose speaks in high terms of Speaker Stanton whom he has known since Stanton first came to town from Bay City as a barefoot boy something like 40 years ago. Melrose always won the marbles. He says Stanton can have the republican nomination for governor next year if he wants it, he being the most prominently mentioned man for the place in the state. His attitude on the anti-alien bills prove him to have developed into statesmanlike qualities. If Stanton gets the nomination Bay City and Miraflores and all of us will whoop it up for him. Miss Kate Rea on Tuesday assumed the duties as assistant principal and instructor of the seventh grade of the Central grammar school taking the place of Miss Bertha Schmidt who was called to Michigan by the death of her mother and finds it impossible to return. The selection by the school trustees of Miss Rea meets with general approval. She is a graduate of Berkeley, where she took the B. A. and M. A. degrees. She has been offered positions in Los Angeles and Long Beach schools but has preferred to live at home and give her time to the erection of the Carnegie library building, she being president of the library board. Much credit for the erection of the handsome library building is due her. As she has been successful in her management of the library, so will she undoubtedly be in the schoolroom, where she is not altogether a stranger. Mrs. Sophie Koll, mother of C. O. Rust of this city and Mrs. Lionel Browning of Los Angeles, died at her home in that city on Thursday. She was in her 70th year and succumbed to a stroke of paralysis following the fracture of a hip bone some weeks ago. Mrs. Koll was a native of Germany. She came to Anaheim with her family in January 1860, sailing from San Francisco on the Schooner Boston. Among the passengers was J. P. Zeyn who is yet an honored resident of the city. Mrs. Koll removed to Los Angeles in 1892. She purchased a lot at the corner of Spring and Seventh streets which is now one of the most valuable pieces of property in the city. The opera house was filled with a large audience on Tuesday evening to witness the Deestrick Skule presented by local talent. The cast of characters was as follows: Bubby, Ezekiel Jedediah Honeysuckle, Welborn Wallop; Drusella Ann Honeysuckle, Grace Destruction morning the Lo water from the Seco being too years been dumped it among them and Alameda st Center, Sainseva Turner and seven ed away, and a from falling by a broken up into opportunity was instance all that their arms. At Alameda street, $150,000 to $200 age done by was the bridges across the covered bridge attempted to cross Monday morning ed. This is the few of the name house and furniture; Willis house and furniture A. Mooreehouse shop, loss $12,000 Fischer, new house Theodore Lyn ning at his room friends about 6 o his room where parents in Los A Tuesday evening buried on Wedn church, Revs. Sh green Council N bearers. Mr. L ever met. His n fitted him to shi he chosen a wid doubtless ere th speaker he was command of land England and wa Mrs. Koll was a native of Germany. She came to Anaheim with her family in January 1860, sailing from San Francisco on the Schooner Boston. Among the passengers was J. P. Zeyn who is yet an honored resident of the city. Mrs. Koll removed to Los Angeles in 1892. She purchased a lot at the corner of Spring and Seventh streets which is now one of the most valuable pieces of property in the city. The opera house was filled with a large audience on Tuesday evening to witness the Deestrick Skule presented by local talent. The cast of characters was as follows: Bubby, Ezekiel Jedediah Honeysuckle, Welborn Wallop; Drusella Ann Honeysuckle, Grace Adams; Timothy Truck, Earl Abbey; Hannah Maria Honeysuckle Mrs. Harry Dyer; Patience Peterkin, Vera Gade; Mindy Pippin. Mabelle Gade; Danny Bone, Dr. John Boege; Salle Skinner. Mrs. Burgess; Mahala Spriggs, Elsa Chisten; Betsy Robbin. Vickey Nemetz; Mrs. Jane Crawford, Mrs. Wallop; Penelope Jones, Olga Zeus. Trustees Hugo Strodthoff, B. V. Beebe, Joseph Fiscus. A social hop followed the performance. Harold Pellegrin was down from Occidental College this week spending several days with relatives. He is in his third year at Occidental. Fifty hundredths of an inch of rain fell on Saturday night according to Mr. Dickel's gauge, bringing the total for the season to 15.42 inches. Total last season to date 9.49. Dr. H. A. Johnston is out again after an argument with a bad cold which kept him home for several days. Alex Wright was in town on Monday on a brief business mission. Joseph Backs Sr., was a business visitor in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Max Nebelung has been appointed school census marshal for this district. Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK FEBRUARY 23, 1884 Our record of this surprising winter closed on Friday the 15th at 2 p.m., up to which time the precipitation for the season was 11.83 inches. On Saturday .35 fell, but the continuous and heavy downpour of Sunday was what swelled the figures and the rivers. The fall on that day was 2.71 and on Monday .21, making 3.27 in all or a total for the season of 15.10. Sunday's rainfall proved too much for the water gorged earth, and it did not sink in and the country looked like a vast lake. South of Westminster and near the ostrich farm the water was alarmingly deep, but no damage was done. The waters of Santiago creek, diverted from the bed by brush and refuse for which it has been the receptacle, poured through a part of the town of Orange and gave rise to some apprehension, although little damage resulted. The damage in North Anaheim and Orangethorpe was confined to the roads along which the water swept in great volumes. The past week has been one of practical isolation from the outside world. The mail came through all right the night of the 15th but Saturday the track was completely under water. On Thursday a bag of newspapers reached here that had been lying at Norwalk since Sunday. On Thursday afternoon Mr. French, the Santa Ana postmaster, went to Los Angeles with a four-horse team and courteously stopped here and took forward the accumulated letters. The track between Anaheim and Los Angeles was one vast break—only worse at some places than others. When it crosses the old river bed just north of town, over 200 feet of the embankment was washed away, leaving the rails and ties suspended in mid air. The bridge over New River and innumerable smaller culverts and bridges are gone and it will be a day or two before the track will be sufficiently repaired to permit the passage of a train, although the company has a large force at work. Destruction of property in Los Angeles: At 10:30 on Sunday Destruction of property in Los Angeles: At 10:30 on Sunday morning the Los Angeles river began to overflow, the rush of water from the Tejunga and Verdergo canyons and the Arroyo Seco being too great for its capacity. The debris which has for years been dumped into the river stemmed its current and diverted it among the houses in the district bounded by Macy, Georgia and Alameda streets and comprising Alameda, First, Banning, Center, Sainsevain, Sepulveda, Lazard, Minnesota, Vignes Garcia, Turner and several other small-streets. Forty houses were washed away, and a number of others were undermined and only kept from falling by props. The houses which were carried away were broken up into piecemeal. The flood came so suddenly that no opportunity was given to remove furniture and in nearly every instance all that was saved was what the inmates could grasp in their arms. At one time the water was fully four feet deep on Alameda street. The loss of property is estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000. This, we assume does not include the damage done by washing away lots, uprooting vines, trees, etc. All the bridges across the Los Angeles river were swept away except the covered bridge and it is "wobbly." George Stolz, a milkman, attempted to cross the Los Angeles river near the Arroyo Seco on Monday morning, but his wagon was swept away and Stolz drowned. This is the only fatal casualty reported. We give below a few of the names of owners of destroyed property: Nathan Hull, house and furniture; J. J. Phillips, steam laundry, house and furniture; William Perry, house and furniture; Mrs. A. Gray, house and furniture; Dr. J. P. Widney, house and furniture; Mrs. A. Mooreehouse; Rees & Wirshing, agricultural warehouse and shop, loss $12,000; F. A. Fischer, new house and furniture; John Fischer, new house and furniture. Theodore Lynn died very unexpectedly on last Monday evening at his room in the hotel. While conversing with some of his friends about 6 o'clock he fainted. He revived and was assisted to his room where he died shortly. Mrs. Lynn was visiting her parents in Los Angeles at the time and could not reach here until Tuesday evening on account of the break in the railroad. He was buried on Wednesday morning from St. Michael's Episcopal church, Revs. Sheridan and Emery officiating. Members of Evergreen Council No. 808, American Legion of Honor acted as pall-bearers. Mr. Lynn was one of the most brilliant men we have ever met. His natural talents, assisted by a thorough education, fitted him to shine as a member of the legal profession, and had he chosen a wider field wherein to operate, his name would doubtless ere this have been familiar throughout the state. As a speaker he was logical, felicitious and witty, with a phenomenal command of language. Mr. Lynn was a native of Manchester, England and was aged 37 years. Among the sufferers by the flood in Los Angeles were John Fischer and his son Fred, both of whom lost their new houses with all their contents. Sweeping reductions proposed in the budget of the United States department of agriculture for the coming fiscal year have brought a new storm of protest from California agriculture, due to threatened abandonment of virtually all soil survey work by the federal government. The threat to the soil survey program, which has played a vital role in California's agricultural development, is in addition to other ill-timed and drastic cuts in the federal budget which endanger the agricultural experiment stations. Slashed approximately 45 per cent, the allotment for federal soil surveys has been reduced to $150,000 in the budget now pending before congress as against $275,000 appropriated for the current year. The decrease, unless it is modified by congressional action will probably Among the sufferers by the flood in Los Angeles were John Fischer and his son Fred, both of whom lost their new houses with all their contents. The old gentleman was at San Pedro at the time of the occurrence and his daughters were unable to save anything. (Later, however, the piano was found where it had been carried away by the waters. It was restored and after many more years of usefulness in the Fischer family was, several years ago presented to Mother Colony Chapter, D. A. R. by the late Mrs. Anna Fischer DeFrees, who was the first white girl born in Anaheim and who was named Anna in honor of the city of her birth. This piano was brought to Anaheim in early days by Mr. Fischer and was the first one in Anaheim.—Ed.) The unwelcome appearance of half a dozen dirty, impudent tramps is noted. For the benefit of the fraternity we will remark that the town marshal has had a hundred copies of Anaheim's celebrated Tramp Law printed. This law is more efficacious than a shot gun or a double barreled bulldog. No trump was ever known to read it and remain in this vicinity. The time of arrival and departure of mail has been changed—or, more properly speaking, will change when ever mail communication is again established. The mail arrives in Anaheim at 6:45 p.m. and leaves Anaheim for the north at 6:30 a.m. T. S. Harris, who shot Whitehead, editor of the Republican, was found guilty of assault to murder, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the state prison. The Los Angeles Herald of last Sunday has a "yarn" about the robbery of Messrs. Snow and Kelly, of the Anaheim Oil Wells, by H. F. Hubbard, one of the employes. No such occurrence took place. It is said that every available acre of land in this vicinity is either seeded to grain already or is being prepared for corn. An unusual crop of the latter will doubtless be raised. California would be especially hard hit by curtailment or abandonment of the federal soil survey work at this time, due to changing conditions and new developments which have greatly intensified the demand for reliable soil survey data. County assessors in many sections of the state, for example, are using the results of the soil surveys as a basis for re-assessment and equalization of assessment rolls. The state board of equalization is an even more important and far-reaching activity, is likewise calling on the soil survey service in developing the soil factor in land values. This is incident to the board's work in assessing the property of private utilities, preparatory to returning utility holdings to the local tax rolls next year for direct taxation. 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