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4 DAILY HERALD. PUBLISHED IITIR DAWS A WEEK. MMtrS »• LTHCH. JAMES J. AVERS. A TUBS & LYNCH, - Publishers DELIVERED BY CARRIERS tOe ncr Week, or 80c per Month TBBMS BT MAIL, IbCLUD.NG POSTAGE, Daily Hbbald, one yew *» w Daily Hbbald, six months * « Daily Hbbald, three moLths * *> Wbbxly Hbbald, one year 2 co Wbxkly Hebald, six months ........ I w Wsmlt Hbbald, three months ILLUSTRATED HBBALD, per COpT » Local cobresposdence from adjacent towns especially solicited. Bemittances shonld be made by draft Oheck, Postoffice order or postal note. The hatter should be sent for all sums lets than tve dollars. Job Printing Department—Owing to onr greatly increased facilities, we are pre pared to execute all kinds of )ob work in a superior manner. Special attention will be riven to commercial and legal printing, and sU orders will be promptly filled at moderate rates. The official List ol Letters remaining in tbe Postoffice is published ln the Herald ■ Monday. Omcx or Publication, 75 North Spring street. Los Angeles. Telephone No. ISO. notice to Mall Subscribers. The papers ot all delinquent mail sub scribers to tbo los A ngiles Daily Herald win be promptly discontinued hereafter. Ko papers will be sent to subscribers by Basil unless the same have been paid for in advance. This rule is inflexible. Ayers a Lynch, To Advertisers. Only light Outline Cuts are admitted in to the columns of the Herald. To insure Insertion ln the Daily Hebald j! all new advertisements, as well as changes, they must be handed in before 8 o'clock r. a. ttemoval. On or ahout the middle of March, The Hebald will move into the new building, new in course of completion, on the north side oi Second street, near Fort. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1888. Illustrated Annual Herald. The matter is now being prepared for this popular publication. The edition will be larger than ever before, and its columrs WIU be filled with carefully prepared mat ter reflecting the prcgresß and industry of Southern California. The illustrations will be more numerous than ever before, and in point of excellence the engraver s art will maintain the high reputation this publication hns deservedly gained. Parties desirous of availing themselves of the ad va ntagesthls (peciaUdltion cfiers for ad vertising and write-ups, will do well to hand in their orders at as early a day as possible. Not worse Than Others. We protest against the attempt to make Los Angeles appear in the light of the wickedest city in America, To read the outpourings of one of our con temporaries on this subject, a stranger would take it for granted that our city was given over to thieves, gamblers and harlots. But the picture is much blacker than we deserve. In its moral aspect Los Angeles will compare fa vorably with any cosmopolitan city in the United States. It is a peculiarity of a very influential class o£ the Ameri can people that they deliberately refuse to recognize the fact that there are cer tain kinds of evils which always have and always will exist in cities. These people live in the haze of a delusion which makes them believe that these evils are somehow eradicable. They tell yon that if the law were enforced against gambling it could be sup pressed. Yet the fact remains that the most stringent measures have never in any city succeeded in doing so, They have only succeeded in driving it into more secret places and thus rendering it more injurious to the community. Tbe practical statesman would say to these vision aries that when an evil cannot be abated it is the work of wisdom to control and regulate it—to so far recognize it legally as to bring it out of its dark and secret places and take away from it its most dangerous prin ciple by keeping it under strict police surveillance. But a proposition to do this would be received with an ex clamation of virtuous horror by the goody-goody portion of the com munity. To recognize gambling or any other ineradicable evil by licens ing it and placing it under po lice regulation would be held as compounding with the evil one. Let lis take, for instance, the gambling so-called Grain Exchange, that has been carried on openly here for months. Nobody doubts the charac ter of the business carried on by this "exchange." It is what a Council man sententiously designated as a self-working faro-bank driven by elec tricity. Yet we are sure that the very fact that this new-fangled gam bling contrivance is carried on openly renders it much less dangerous than if it were driven into dark corners whore the public eye could not look upon it. Now any employer whose confidential desk should play at this game would be spotted at once, before he had timo to seriously injure the man he worked for. On the other hand, if the game were carried on in secret places he might ruin his employer before it was known that he had been playing in automatic margins. The legal adviser of the city has not been able to And any law to place this game in the legal category of games of chance, and therefore it will doubtless continue to be played openly. The best way therefore, under the circumstances, to deal with it is to place it under a high license. This will permit it to exist under the eye of the public and the surveillance of tbe police. If there is no objection to licensing this game, why should there be to licensing other gambling games, really not less pernicious to the morals of the community than the margin gamble? We may say that regular gambling is prohibited by statute; but we know that in this case prohibition does not prohibit. It is a nice question to de termine the value of a law which theoretically suppresses, but which 1 practically, instead of suppressing, Aggravates the evil it aims to correct. I The debate in the Council on Monday upon this subject shows that tbere is a perfect consciousness in the members of that body that gambling ia and has been carried on in this city in spite of all the efforts made to suppress it. Not only this, but tha it has in the past been carried en through the connivance of the depart ment having its suppression in charge. It is an open secret that the gamblers have paid for their immu nity by corrupting the guardians o the peace. Up to to the presen time no police administration has absolved itself froai this charge We have the most implici confidence in the integrity of the present Chief of Police, and we know that he has the experience ant the ability to carry out the duties of his office to their fullest ex tent. This brings us to the conclusion that if gambling cannot be suppressed under his regime, and if it continues in spite of him, then there is no power in our Bystcni to eradicate it When we are placed face to face with a demonstration of this character then we are willing to put tho cvi under such reasonable municipai regulation as will enable the authori ties to control it and render it the least harmful possible. Tins is the time of the year when the olive can be plantod with safety. It is strange that while so many thousands of trees are and have been planted in Southern California in the past few years, so few growers have turned their attention to olives. The planting of olive trees along the high ways, and whenever a property owner has land that cannot be put to any particular UEe, is urgod by some horticulturists in Southern California. The olive tree flourishes with little care and will grow where other trees will not. It can be planted in good bottom land in the same marner as ordinary trees are. In dry soil that cannot be irrigated, a hole two and a half feet deep and six to eight feet square has to be dug. The roots in this loose soil have room to spread, and the tree will live. The olive tree will bear fruit in a few years, and the fruit always commands a good price. Then, too, the olive tree will live and bear abundantly for many years. It is always in full foliage aud is one of the handsomest and freshest looking trees we have in this region. It is an ornament to any yard or lawn. The market for pure olive oil is extending rapidly, and the production is never equal to the de mand. News comes from the south of Europe that a short crop of olive oil is expected, which will increase the value of the production in Southern California. The countries along the shores of the Mediterranean, princi pally France, Italy and Spain, are the chief p oducers of olive oil. Of late years cottouseed, poanut and lard oil are represented as being used as adul terants of foreign olive c il. With proper attention to the culture of the olive, California will soon do away with the adulterated arti cle. Several years ago it was demonstrated by meteorological data gathered at various points that the climatic conditions for olive cul ture were favorable over the greater part of the State. But Southern Cali fornia is the home of the olive. The Mission Fathers knew this more than a hundred years ago, and at almost all of the Missions they founded, they planted the olive, as well as the vine and the orange, olive oil constituting an important element in their daily diet. In the semi-tropical land of Southern California, for culinary pur poses pure olis-e oil is exceptionally excellent, and may be ufed advan tageously in the place of butter and other fats in cooking, as the taste is quite pleasing. -As an article for building up wasted tissues caused by sickness, olive oil is superior to cod liver oil. Plant the olive. A table recently published by the Call, gives the arrivals and depart ures of Chinese at the port of San Francisco since 1852. In that year 20,026 were landed and only 1,708 sailed away. The arrivals for the succeeding twenty-eight years aggre gate a total of 253,035, while the de partures for the same period weie only 123.001. In the aggregate since 1880 the arrivals number 82,654, and the departures 75,821. Not allow ing for those who have reach the Un ited States via British Colum bia and Mexico, this would leave 136,807 Chinese in the country at the present time. Some weeks ago an estimate made by the Six Com panies showed that there were 200, --000 Mongolians then in the Union. Other authorities have placed the total number of Chinese in the land at from 225,000 to 250.000. If, as it is claimed, the Restriction Act is doing but little, Congress should pass a more effective measure. The States east of the Rockies, which have of late years received a goodly number of the Chinese, are beginning to awaken to the fact that Johnny Comprador is not a desirable addition ti their population, and, therefore, Congress may be as rigid in a new ■estriction act as the case calls for. Secretary Bayard is reported to have given out that a new treaty of abso lute exclusion is about concluded with the Chinese Government. As we have stated before, that Government does not care a baubee as to such a policy. The governing classes in China want the trade of the United States, for that benefits the rich of the Flowery Kingdom. The right to come here as laborers benefits the poor, and that class in China has no rights which the rich are bound to or care to re spect. LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAT MORNLNQ. MARCH 7, 1888. Stones From Glass Houses. The Los Angeles real estate man certain lv knows how to avail himself of every op- Fortunity to further the sale of his lands— I.us Angeles Times. No one has ever doubted that. The trouble has been that he has created fictitious opportunities, and that thousands must suffer, are suffering now in consequence, of the down grade of the speculative market hav ing been reached in Los Angeles. In the common sense view of the matter, the dullest can understand that the town lot schemes of the "Los Ange les real estate man" will require a population of a million in or der to fulfill the promise of oc enpanev with which these speculators have deluded the people. Natural rise in values, honest development, uninflated prosperity — these none will decry; but when it is undeuiable that the lots outnumber the capacity of the population to occupy and im prove a hundred to one, it is evident that speculation must grow weary of waiting for the day of promise, aud turn back to realize upon itself. Then retrogression sets in. That must Ue the outcome in every place "boomed" an inch in advance of its commercial and industrial development.—[Sacra mento Record-Union. In the same issue of our most es teemed Sacramento contemporary from which the ab.ive is taken ap pears a similarly garbled quotation from ourselves, which makes us say baldly, "Climate is the basis of all our claims of superiority." And our neighbor of the north is very sensitive as to having "odious comparisons" instituted by any journal in this section, whereby his own comes off second best. This being so he should be careful not to pro voke these comparisons. He is bright and apt in his defense of the section to whose interests he devotes his energies, but any comparison called out between the two parts of the State can not fail to result most disastrously to his cause. No orator, were he of the stamp and eloquence of Brutus, him self, can take up such a losing game and win. It is not in the cards that he .-should. Who so well as a Sacra mentan could preach from such a text as this: "It is evident that s]>ec ulation must grow weary of waiti'ig for Ihe day of promise, and turn l ack to realize upon itself!" How touch ing the letlection ! "Then retrogres sion sets in. That must be the out come in any place'boomed'an inch in advance of its commercial aud in dustrial development." That is true —most true. "Pity 'tis, 'tis true; and true'tis,'tis pity!" It his been as true as pitiful for lo! these many years. In the ea'ly ages of the world some colonists came lo tho eastern shores of the Bos-.diorus and founded the city of Chalcedon. Later came a more wise party and crossing the strait founded the city of Byzantium, now known as Constant inople. The latter grew apace on the beautiful bay around what is now called tlie Golden Ho:n. The city on the wrong side of the Dardanelles dragged out a sickly existence, and never did come to any thing. Long years later one of the Persian satraps gave the place and all its revenues to his wife as pin money. The Byzantines nicknamed their neighbor " the city of the blind," because they had built where they did, with the "golden horn" and all its wonderful possibilities in full viow. In the days of the modern Argonauts, Sacramento was f junded on the flats along the river bottoms. The founders conceived the high hope that they had found a place to build a a city. The people with eyes came along a few months later and built Sau Francisoo at the Golden Gate. Tho place on the river was"boomed"a good many inches "in advance of its commercial and industrial develop ment." As a natural result "specu lation must grow weary of waiting for the day of premise, and turn back to realize upon itself." How natural it was under these circumstances for our esteemed and bright contempo rary to moralize on such a subject! When, however, he comes to apply it to us, how far wide of the mark he shoots! .„The sales of real estate in this county for the month of Febru ary just closed, ran up to $7,600,000. Sacramento county will not sell half of that amount of realty in the current year. On Monday last our sales came to $480,000. Sacramento will not reach the figures in three months. Yesterday our record came to $250,000. That will overrun Sacramento's record for the month of March. There is no "suffering now in consequence of the down-grade of the speculative market having been reached in Los Angeles." All that is going on here is emphatically in the way of "natural rise in values, honest development, uninflated pros perity." There is nothing of any other nature to be looked for in this city. This is by no means a "city of the blind." The men who built Los Angeles had eyes; those who are in terested here now are far-seeing men —and this includes the great bulk of all the country round about us as well as the city. The editor of the Fresno Democrat has been speaking in language that is plain to his brother editor of the Re publican. The former gives the latter the lie direct, emphasized by the interjections of cur and scoundrel, and expresses the wish of a bloody meeting with his rival. Horace Gree ley once set a pleasant example of how newspaper quarrels can be set tled. The elder Hale, of political fame and memory, was the editor and proprietor of the Boston Adver tiser, a conservative and staid journal, but rather slow—always a day or two behind in its news columns. The younger Hale, who bad been as sociated with his father, started a paper called To-Day. Mr. Greeely in commenting upon its appearance, 1 said: "Its name is most appropriate, inasmuch as it is the son of yester day." The proprietor of the Adver tiser was very indignant, and, in a sharp editorial article, informed Mr. Greeley that he had cut off his paper from exchange with the Tribune. Mr. Greeley replied in the kindliest man ner, finding with these words: "Don't be angry Mr. Hale, but send along the Advertiser; we can't do without it." The exchange was not cut off and Mr. Greeley nnd Mr. Hale contin ued life-long friends. Tub New York Mail and Expreu says: "The business of the Atlantic and Pacific Railioad Company has so increased that they have been obliged to make an arrangement with a syndi cate for $500,000 for a new equipment. The trust will provide fifty new en gines, to be paid for in sixteen semi annual payments, with interest at (i per cent, the principal being about half a million. One thousand two hundred cars will he built and paid for in tho same way. These will probably cost if (100,000." These facts speak volumes, and that most emphatically, touching the growth of Pacific coast business. The road referred to here is a link in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc sys tem. It runs through New Mexico and Arizona. The local traffic on the line is very meager, and nearly all its equipment is used directly and only on through business. Fifty new engines and 1200 cars is a large amount of addition to make. The cars are equal to more than 120 trains. No doubt the whole force will be required to do the tremendous business of the present, and the rap idly increasing traffic between the Missouri river and Los Angeles. The Cit-us Fair is closed. It has ■roved to be a brilliant success, and reflects great credit on the people who undertook and managed it, and on Riverside generally. The display made in this city was a very fino one; but it was not the moiety of what it ought to have been. When one reflects that of this entire county of Los Angeles only one community took the trouble to enter the Hst3 aa a contributor, it will be realized how much was left un dor.-; that might aud should hava beeu done. Too much credit can not he bestowed upon Anaheim, the solo representative of Los Angeles county in the hall. She setup a most attractive display of her products, which had to ask no odds of any thing in the hall. Mr. F. U. Schaunibur ger worked like a nailer to accomplish his purpose, and Anaheim should present him with a civic crown as a testimonial for his services to the town. Is dkvki-oi'mi;ni' by any means nearly accomplished in this section? To hear the croakers talk one would think such might be the case. But croakers aro poor people to seek coun sel from. They are always blind guides. The San Fernando valley, embracing from this side of Burbank to the Sau Fernando tunnel, and from the mouths of the Tejunga and Pacoima canons to the Sauta Susana mountains, contains 100,000 acics of the choicest lands, 50,000 acres of de cidedly good lands, and from 50,000 to 100,000 acres more of fair to rather middling grades of land. The choicest portion is capable of supporting in the various pursuits of agriculture 50,000 souls. Along the railroad which passes through tho middle of this are four embryo towns—Tropico, Burbank, Pa coima and San Fernando. These will grow t > number on an average 5,000 each. The next grade of land will maintain easily 10 COO souls, and the third grade, let us say, half as many. Here is an aggregate ap proximating 100,00;) inhabitants in this one corner of Los Angeles county. There are perhaps 1,000 people there to-day. In five years there will be 50,000 there, and in ten years there will be 100,000 souls on the territory. The United States is a good place to live in, especially as regards long evity. The hale and hearty English octogenarian or the nonagenarian is often put to the fore as a result of a conservative method of life, and as opposed to the American energetic method, which is generally supposed to lessen longevity to the extent that" even the good die young. The London Lancet has lately shown the fact that we in the United States are longer lived than are our cousins in England. Taking middle-age, forty-five, the Lancet finds that whereas "the expec tation of life" is identical for woncen in the two countries, for men it is one year greater here than on the other side of the water. The activity and push of American life are evidently not so bad for us as it has been p-tinted. ___________ Studebaker Leads Them All And givts the first grand free excursion over the new Whittier Railroad line on Fri day, the Oth. Tickets free. Train leaves Commercial-street depot at 1 P, M. Lone Credit Auction. Diamond street tract, 2:30 to-morrow, Free ride from Temple street cable road. Orange, Orange, Orange! to-day! to-day! to-day! 9A. M. Round trip 81.00. Ben. E. Ward, 18 N. Spring. Auction Sale. At Orange to-day, Wednesday, March 7th. Our own excursion train leaves Commer cial street depot 9a. m. Tickets for round trip for sale by Bkn K. Ward, 48 N. Spring st. No, lam going to Orange. Ben. E, Ward runs one of his popular excursions down to day. Damiana Bitten makes the old young and the weak strong and healthy. M. Levy a Co., wholesale liquor dealers' agents. A positive cure for dyepepaie—Damiana Bitters. Michel Levy a Co., wholesale liquor dealer*, agents. Go to Orange to-day and enioy an hour's ' drive through this beautiful place. MISCELLANEOUS. Important Notice TO THE PUBLIC. Grand Opening OF THK Spring & Summer Novelties at JOE POHEIM, THE TAILOR. We have just received $ 10,000 worili of tnc finest designs of and latest styles of wool ens manufactured expressly for us. The patterns cannot be obtained for love or money elsewhere. We are doing the largest business on tho Pacific Coast, having the three largest stores in Sun Francisco, one in Los Augeies and one in San Diego, and as we buy our goods direct from the menufaa lurers for cash, we obtain such a discount as enables us to make suits to order fully from 25 to ,'l5 per cent, less thau so-called fashionable tailors. YoU would do well to call and examine our immense stock aud convince yourself that our selection is the finest on the coast, and that our prices a-e the lowest. Our motto is honest dealing, prompt attention, perfect fit and tbe best of workmanship guaranteed or no sales. 263 North Main Street, LOS ANUEI.E3, Branch of San Francisco. m 4 2m NEW JEWELRY SHE 18 North Spi ing Sireet, NOW OPEN. Call nud See our Display of Elegant Diamonds —IN — Watches, Earrings and Single Stone. RICH GOIDIiiWELRY, American Watches. Moderate Prices! GOOD GOODS MONTGOMERY BROS." feb!2 lm Collier's We Lead! STRICTLY PURE. In lots to suit at & l 4 CENTS PER POUND. LINSEED OIL of Eastern manufacture, strictly pure, In lots to suit, at LOWEST MARKET RATES. STANDARD OIL CO., m3-7t Los Angeles, Cal, Santa Catalina Island! HOTEL METROPOE OPEN FOR GUESTS The steamer Ferndale will carry pas sengers to the island Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, returning on Monday, Wed nesday aud Friday. Round trip, Los Angeles to Catalina and icturn, $3. Trains leave the Commercial street depot, at 9:40 a. m. For further particulars see G R. SHAITO, Boom 1, Law Building, Or C. A. SUMNER & CO., 51 N. Main st. LOTS FOR $200, IN THE FRANCESCA -:- TRACT! Fronting on Allso avenue, and Franceses street, Boyle Heights street cars run ning within one block. WATER PIPED TO EVERY LOT. TERMS —One-fourth cash, balance in monthly payments, or to suit purchasers. Cheapest Homes in the City! DON'T PAY RENT, GET AHOME. We have one, two, three and four-room houses ats32s, $400, $500 and upwards. All new, neat and comfortable. Close to street cars. WATER PIPED. TERMS EASY. We furnish certificate of title with every sale. If you are looking for a cheap home, see this property. JOHN P. P. PECK, No. SS. Main St. febls-lm COALI COAL! COAL! In Carload Lots. Wallsend, S. F. Wellington and Na. Ultimo. Retail Yard, Second and Alameda. TELEPHONE 10£0. J. J. MELLUS, 231 N. Los Angeles Street. _ m5-tf JJPARGYPOC KCIKDORB EHT. Tbe best duplicator of hand and type writing. Send for Specimen. JOHN S. E WEN, Agent, 123 California st., San Francisco, Cal. m4-13t REAL ESTATE. Grand Leap Year EXCURSION ORANGE To-Day! To-Day! WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7ih. OUR OWN SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Commercial-fit. Depot at 9 a. m., bharp, on that date. Excellent Lunch and Good Music Free. AFTER A DELIGHTFUL DRIVE THROUGH THE TOWN, THE Pecan Tract! Consisting of forty-two (42) beautifully located lots, will be sold A T AUCTION To the highest bidder, positively without reserve. THE PECAN TRACT is central'/ located, on PALMYRA AVENUE, only three Works from 'THK PALMYRA," cue of the handsomest aud best kept, hotels in .Southern California, one block from chapman >treet, on whi.di runs the Orange, McPherson and Karlhnm Street Railroad; four blocks from the Plaza. I GUARANTEE HONEST DEALING. There is no UPSET PRICE on this property, but it will be sold to the highest bidder in every instance. The taxes for the fiscal year 1888 and 18b9 will be paid by the present owners. TERMS OF SALE—§2O per lot immediately on the fall -f the hammer—no devia tion from this rule—balance of ' {, on or before 10 lay* after sale, >.<J in 0 mouths, ' ii In 12 mouths, with interest on deferred payments at 10 per cent, per annum. Follow Me and YOU will WEAR DIAMONDS I THE AUDIENCE "PROPOSES" (It beiug Leap Year, ladies are included' and tho Auc tioneer "DISPOSES." 3SJ UPF SEX) ! So for Maps, Tickets, Further Particulars, etc., see THORNE & GOL.SH, 00 SOUTH MATN STREET, CORNER SECOND. BEN E, WARD, Auctioneer, f2O-lm 48 NORTH SPRING STREET, I.os Angeles. ACRE LOTS IN THE BEAUTIFUL Cahuenga Valley! I AM AUTHORIZED TO PLACE ON THE MARKET 30 IDlegant Lots, AT PRICES RANGING FROM $500 UPWARDS. They are located four miles west of tlie Court House, Weick Subdivision, and adjoining the orchard aud residence of Mr. Ivar A. Weid, and on the line of the We:-t-end Dummy A station is now being built on this Tract within fifteen minutes' ri ie of the business center of Los Angeles. Fare to Spring street, 10 cents. Ihe Cahuenga, Valley is noted for both the quality and quantity of its early vegetables, small fruits, etc. With the products of two acres of this land the present husbandman can give his family a good living. 30 Acres Divided into 50 Lots. Five ordinary lots in one, without paying any higher prices than many of these smaller lots are sold at in less favored localities. These lots must be sold before May Ist, and prices are regulated ac cordingly. Priie3 are less than one half that asked for adjoining property. Look them over before buying elsewhere. Beautiful View of City, Mountain and Ocean. TERMS: HALF CASH; BALANCE IN ONE YEAR AT 8 PER CENT. I will take pleasure in showing you this property. » ,„ BEN E. WARD, 48 NORTH SPRING STREET. | Palm Valley!; i Earliest Fruit .Region in California ! ; \ Choice Orange Land.:-: Price $175 per Acre; I AHnniant Water. NoNo Frost. No Fog!; See A. L. TEELE, Cor. fc««">coriil and Port Sta., Los Angeles, or BRIOGB, FURQUBSON & CO., m5-lm Press Office. Riverside. J PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, GEORGE C. HARDIN, Add TEMPLK STREET, CORNER GRAND AVENUE. WiU open, post and close and t\J\J examine and verify books of accounts; also prepare therefrom abstracts of losses and gains an 1 statements of resources and liabilities; adjust partnership accounts; keep the books for administrators and executors, of the estates they administer, and also keep the books of incorporated companies and Arms Just starting until a regular book-keeper is employed, febB*lm