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THE OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1303.
The rains seem to have left us for a
leason. They have been copious and
ample and the country is in fine condi
tion for the agriculturalists to raise
phenomenal crops.
The overflow of Kern river, near
Bakersfleld, washed away the Southern
Pacific track for sufficient distance to
impede the operations of the railroad.
No trains arrived yesterday from the
north, but it is supposed that tbe diffi
culties will be so far overcome as to en
able tbe trains to resume their regular
trips today.
It is said that Kern river has left its
bed and made a channel through the old
bed in which it flowed prior to 1868.
Some question seems to have arisen as
to the right to appropriate water in the
new channel that has been formed as it
now runs through private property over
Which the old appropriators have no
control. We do not see, however, how
'• tbe appropriations already legally made
can be affected, as tbe water is doubtless
_ turned into the flumes far above where
the channel has changed its course.
It is to be hoped that the legislature
will submit an amendment to the con
stitution providing for a nniform law to
create new counties. The great num
ber of bills now before the legislature
for carving up the territory of old coun
ties intoa multiplicity of new ones has
become a nuisance—a growing cvil —
which can be suppressed by a sensible
general law authorizing new counties to
be formed under certain prescribed con
ditions.
Harrison's secretary of the treasury,
Charley Foster, is an optimist of a bang
np, slap up type. At a banquet given
last night by the Philadelphia Republi
can club, he patted his chief on the
back and gave the cabinet, of which he
is a member, quite a send off. The
Honorable Charles believes in booming
one's self. This is in line with the sen
timent of the Missouri editor, who put
himself on record to the effect that
"whoso bloweth not his own bazoo, the
same shall not be blowed."
Plain, bluff Jesse D. Carr has been
distinguished by one of our compositors
as a member of the noblesse by affix
ing the aristocratical preposition "de"
before bis surname. There is no need
of giving Jesse a title. He is noble
enough without one. He stands at tbe
very head of the pioneers of this state
for an energy that laughs at obstructions,
an acuteness that faces and surmounts
all difficulties and an intelligence of the
practical order which in this country
has made great states out of wilder
nesses in an incredibly short time.
Thk perils which constantly surround
the life of a railroad man had a sad and
perhaps fatal exemplification in the
accident which happened to Brakeman
Heaton near Saugus yesterday morning.
That poor fellow was swept from the
roof of a car to the track by the project
ing pipe of a water tank and was terribly
crushed by the wheels of the train. The
loss of life on tbe railroads of the United
States by coupling cars is something
frightful, and yet congress is haggling
over the passage of a bill to compel all
railroad companies to adopt and put in
one of the several patent couplers that
operate automatically.
Thk poat-prandial oration of Brer.
Otiß at the banquet to Senator White is
published in full in yesterday's Times,
It occupies over three columns of that
paper, in small type set solid. This is
certainly the boas after-dinner speech
ewer delivered aa to length, and com
pared with the dimensions of that de
livered on the same occasion by ex-Sen
ator Edmunds, ie as Ussa to a wart.
Depew has sometimes been long-winded
in his banquet orations, but he has never
come anywhere near the prolixity which
our esteemed contemporary reached
Thursday night in scattering his profuse
flowers of speech before a rapt and de
lighted audience.
In the local columns of the Herald
today will be found the report of an in
terview with Mr. J. F. Crank, late re
ceiver of the cable company. He cays
that an agreement has been made with
tbe Electric company, as far as it can be
accomplished at present, for a consolida
tion of the two systems under one man
agement as soon as the foreclosure suit,
now before Judge Van Dyke's court, has
come to a conclusion. The Electric
Railroad company, it seems, owns
$1,260,000 of first mortgage bonds on the
IPS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 12, 1893.
cable system. When that system is or
dered to sale, under the authority of the
court on foreclcsure, which it is believed
will be in about six weeks, the Electric
company will bid up to the amount of
its bonds, and if there is no higher bid,
which is altogether probable, the cable
road will pass into the hands of tbe
Electric company, subject to the agree
ment that has already been entered into
with the representatives of the cable
company. Until such time as this takes
place, Mr. J.J. Aikin, tbe present super
intendent of tbe cable company, will
operate the road as at present. We
opine that Mr. Crank's fine executive
and financial ability will be availed of
by the Electric company when all the
arrangements have been perfected.
A PLEA AGAINST LEVITY.
Now snd then, as an incident of tbe
revolution around the sun of this work
a-day world, a great instructor or a great
orator, deigns to inject hie superfine
wisdom or exalted impulses into mun
dane affairs. When this personage dis
closes himself his mission should be re
ceived respectfully, even if its full pur
port is not understood at the first glance.
We regret to be obliged to realize that
our esteemed contemporary of the Even
ing Express is not sufficiently imbued
with tbe significances of—things. It
even has the hardihood, at timsa, to
jumble up against the Lis Angeles
Times and its puissant editor, 001. Har
rison Gray Otis, and it does this
irrespective of the wreck of mat
ter and crush of worlds that
would naturally be looked for from such
an iconoclastic collision. In fact, it
wears a rather jauntee air, as if it had
done Boms smart and commendable
thing, instead of something that ought
to bring down upon its head dire re
sults. We have not yet heard the de
tonating disasters that ought to follow
the Express's quasi blasphemy; but just
wait a little while. Temblors do not
exquagitate themselves on the impulse
of the moment. They are not mere
touch and go affairs. They ramify both
in the bowels of the earth and in the
empyrean, and deliver their fear-in
spiring prodigies when they get ready.
In tbe present case, with a manifest
case of blaspheming Colonel Otis, their
arrival cannot bs long delayed.
A correspondent of the Evening Ex
press, who writes with the glee which
one would expect from a lively monkey,
ntterly irreverent, and without the ca
pacity to indulge in serious thought,
presumes to object to Col. Harrison
Gray Otis interjecting a four thousand
word after dinner speech into the festiv
ities attendant on the White banquet.
Now if the colonel were an ordinary
man the voluminousaeas of this social
propaganda—we are trying to make our
language sufficiently grandiose to be
responsive to the occasioiwmight be
amenable to criticism. But is the
colonel an ordinary man? We all know
that he is not. Even the shaft of envy,
which, like death, loves a sbining mark,
falls from the panoplied personnel of
this grsat Southern California editor.
Why should he not be allowed to speak
four thousand or f.lrty thnnqonrl -
if the spirit moved him? Ii not, why
not?
It will be noticed by the careful read
ers of tbe colonel's speech—as it was
noticed by those who had tbe great hap
piness and pleasure of hearing it —that
our distinguished confrere was not above
going back to ancient history to evolve
therefrom a light which should be in
candescent, so to speak, on our manifold
modern affairs. Some superficial people
will criticize him for this solemn and in-
structive tendency. But it may be
asked, and the query is an honest one,
what were the ancients invented for if
not to allow learned publicists, like
Colonel Otis, to use their otherwise per
haps questionable careeis to the behoof
and enlightenment of those who have
come after them. If we are not permit
ted to use the histories of Pompsius and
Caius Julius Cicsar for monition and re
proof, we would be in favor of bundling
the whole crowd, and their memories
and histories, into some unused crypt
of some forgotten portion of the pyramid
built by Barneses the Three Times, or
his immediate progenitor, Barneses the
Too Too.
Tbe flippant correspondent of tbe Ex
press objects that Colonel Otis, in hia re
port of his own brilliant and instructive
speech, only applauds himself thirty
eight times. This shows malice. Surely
nobody who beard that speech, pregnant
with thought, and impacted with
apophthegm, would have objected to its
being interlarded in that wise at least
fonr hundred and forty times, consider
ing bow long and learned it was, and
how scintillant it was with recondite
thought. These interruptions, charac
terized with applause, were milestones,
so to speak, that showed the listener
what tremendous distances of time and
space he was traversing. And as to any
portion of this all too brief post prandial
effort, we feel assured that all who list
ened to the gallant colonel were in the
mood of the Irishman who bad started
out to walk to Dublin, and who, having
found a good piece of road, turned and
walked it over. Who that listened to
Colonel Otis's matchless effort Thursday
night but would gladly have heard all or
any part of it over again?
CABINET AND FINANCIAL SPECULA
TIONS.
The speculations as to cabinet ap
pointments have pretty well boxed the
compass. Nearly all the prominent
Democrats have been slated for Mr.
Cleveland's official family, including
three Democrats from California, viz.,
John P. Irish, Congressman Geary and
Senator White. There appears to be
very little danger of any citizen of tbe
Golden State being struck by the cabi
net lightning. Only one thing seems to
be absolutely assured, and that is that
John G. Carlisle is to be secretary of tbe
treasury. It is not pleasant to know
that tins Bagacious Kentuckian will have
his hands full to prevent gold from going
] to a premium, for there are ominous whis
pers that such a financial catastrophe is
ahead. Business men in New York are
already beginning to talk about opening
special gold accounts, and there has
been an intimation that some calls for
gold dnring 1893 at 2 per cent above par
have been negotiated. The New York
banks are coming loyally to the front,
and are changing the yellow metal with
the secretary of the treasury for legal
tender notes, in order to keep the gold
reperve above the hundred mil
lion dollar limit. From the beßt
sources it is understood that there are
$525,000,000 of gold in the United
States—a much larger Bum of that metal
than any other nation in the world
possesses—and we produced last year
$37,000,000 of the yellow metal. Under
all the circumstances, the pressure
ought to cease very shortly, and a return
current should set in. The real secret
of the exportation of gold to Europe is
the determination of the moneyed men
of Wall street to create an artificial
panic in order to bring about the repeal
of the Sherman bill and the absolute
demonetization of silver.
LET US BAR OUT THE CHOLERA.
There is no question of the fact that
those members of the senate and house
of representatives of the congress of the
United States who have advocated a
restriction of steerage immigration to
tbia country during the centennial year,
have been timely and wise. Elsewhere
will be found the report of Dr. Kemp
ater, a special health officer of the
United States, who was dispatched to
Europe to investigate the cholera ques
tion. This gentleman, who has un
doubtedly been selected for the purpose
on account of his exceptional qualifica
tions, says that there will certainly be a
great epidemic of that fell disease all
over Europe during the coming sum
mer. He states that the true situation
has been concealed by the German
authorities. He has visited all
the Tegions which were the centers
of the recent infection, of course in
cluding Hamburg, and he finds the con
ditiona most threatening. Under such
circumstances our duty is plain. All
the owners of steamers plying between
the United States and Europe Bhould be
notified that steerage immigrants will
not be received. Congress should at
once pass a measure suspending for one
year all immigration of thatdescription.
Even though such action should meas
urably curtail the European attendance
at the Columbian world's fair, this
would be far better than to subject our
whole people to the incursions of such
a frightful plague. The ravages of
cholera in the United States in 1831 and
in 1853-54 must certainly convey a les
son to the most obtuse mind. Oar plain
duty ia to put up the barriers, and to
keep them up until all danger of an in
fectious epidemic shall have passed.
LEVITY OF THE EXPRERS.
A Statistical Fiend Turns Himself Loose
on Kclitorlal Sneoches.
[Evening Express, Feb. 11.|
Editor Expbess : I have been read
ing in this morning's Times the speeches
ma J Edi"torbtiVof T tF-B c h of tho ¥™j%te
quet in honor of Senator-elect White at
the Turnverein hall last Thnrday even
ing. They are both very good, but lam
astonished to observe the great differ
ence with which the two addresses were
received by the auditmce as chronicled
by the Times. I have a taste for mathe
matics, and have made a tabulation of
tbe enthusiastic interuptions of the two
distinguished speakers noted by the
Times. They are as follows:
COLONEL HARRISON GRAY OTIS.
No. times
Plain [applauac] 21
[Lond applause] 1
flam [laughta'] 7
Combined [laugnter and applause] 3
El.oud applause and laughter! 1
Cries of "That's so!"] 1
interruption by [John P, Irish: ' You will
never do Hl"] 1
Total agreeable interruptions 38
HON. JOSEPH D. LYNCH.
Plain [applause] (at close of speech) 1
Total agreeable interruptions 1
Majority of O'.is over Lynch 37
Now, Mr. Editor, in reading these two
speeches I can see no good reason why
there should have been co great a differ
ence in the popular estimate of the two
addresses. To be sure Colonel Otis's
speech was 500 or 000 per cent loDger
than that of Mr. Lynchs, and that
would naturally make a difference. It
embraced, in fact, 664 lines of small
type, which at seven words to the line
would make 4818 words, while the re
port of Senator Edmunds' speech was
covered by the Times yesterday morn
ing by 27 lineH. As you, Mr. Editor,
are reported to have been there, I would
like to know if the Times made an accu
rate report, and if Mr. Lynch was really
applauded but once, and Colonel Otis 38
times ? Will you kindly make a reply ?
Statistician.
Los Angeles, Feb. 11,1893.
I We decline to be drawn into any con
troversy upon the subject submitted by
our correspondent, or to question the
accuracy of tbe Times' report as to the
degree of enthusiasm or the number of
pleasant and agreeable interruptions
with which Colonel Otis's address was
received. We are sure, however, that
Mr. Lynch'a address was applauded
more than once, and that his very
clever and witty introduction was greet
ed with "loud applause and laughter"
by everybody, including Nick Covarru
bias. —Editor Express.]
THE STATE LAWMAKERS.
Little Business of Interest Transacted at
Sioramento.
Sackamknto, Feb. 11.—The assembly
accomplished little this morning. A
few bills were introduced, and the re
mainder of the session was occupied by
tho first reading of bills.
In the afternoon the committee ap
pointed to draw a resolution in memory
of Hon. E. B. Price submitted a report,
wbich was adopted by a unanimous
rising vote.
The committee on education reported
favorably tbe bill to revise the state
series of text books.
After a short time spent in the first
reading of bills the assembly adjourned.
In the senate Yoorhies introduced a
bill appropriating $45,000 to build and
furnish a residence for the governor.
Tbe bill appropriatinir $300,000 for a
state building in Ban Francisco passed.
Recess.
Tbe senate reassembled at 2 o'clock,
and after an hour spent in the first
reading of bills adjourned.
PEDAGOGUES' MEETING.
PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY OF EDU
CATIONAL, ASSOCIATION.
Mr. Hon ell's Ylewi on Examinations.
Professor Button's Report—Prin
cipal Features of the
Discussion.
The Los Angeles County Educational
association met Saturday morning in
the assembly room of the high school
building. President Leroy D. Brown
occupied the chair.
Miss Dunham, the secretary, read the
minutes of the last meeting, after which
Mr. E. P. Rowell of Redondo presented
a paper on Examinations.
Mr. Howell said: The educational
structure is well-nigh bidden by the
scaffolding thereof.
Among the many things that impede
our progress and obstruct our vision,
the most useless cumbsrer is the writ
ten examination.
The examination system of which we
complain began in New England and
has spread all over New York, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, and in
an aggravated form it affects nearly all
of the western states.
The frequency and intricacy of these
examinations and their general useless
n ess is cause enough to procure their
abolition in all civilized states.
Teachers and pupils are continually
harassed by boards that know little or
nothing of the individuals most con
cerned, and the conundrums usually pro
pounded are not calculated to benefit
the Bufferers in any way.
When a teacher has once passed a fair
examination, why should he be com
pelled to procure anew passport at the
boundary of each county to which he re
moves ? Does a lawyer get a permit to
practice a certain kind of law in a cer
tain county for six months ? Is he then
compelled to paeß another examination
to get another permit for another six
months, or to show the authorities that
he has not forgotten the elements of his
bußinesa while he has been actively en
gaged in practicing it? Is a doctor
licensed to kill microbes for a year then
hauled before a "board" to show that
he has sufficient skill to kill them for
another year? Is a teacher the only
unfortunate in' this unfortunate busi
ness! No, there is another sufferer.
The pupil is called upon to bear a por
tion of the results of this system.
California once had a much better
system than the one now in vogue, but
when the "Kearney constitution" was
adopted the astute county superintend
ents imsgined they saw the uniformity
of the child-mind, and our present evil
system is the result of their labors.
Now the unfortunate child who gets
only 79 and 9-10ths out of every 100
questions propounded on examination
day must go back a year in his school
work, while his fellow sufferer who got
l-10th of a grade more reaps the reward
of promotion. We are told that promo
tion without examination will do for
city teachers, but that it will not do for
county teachers. Of what different
clays are the two classes of teachers
made ? Strange cozenage I Queer mis
reasoning!
Mr. Rowell was followed by Professor
Hutton of'the Normal school, who
agreed with him in every particular,
rrofeasor Hutton read a report ahowing
that most of the teachers of the state
Stions.
Professors Hamilton and Graham of
Pasadena, Mr. Ennia of Los Angeles,
Mr. Hutchinson of University and sev
eral others were eager to take the floor
to argue on the other side of the ques
tion, but owing to the lateness
of the hour further discussion of
the Bubiect waa poitponed till the
April meeting, and Mr. C. L. Ennia was
appointed to open the discussion at
that time.
Dr. I loose's paper was postponed till
March.
The association was favored with some
excellent music: A vocal solo by Mies
Joanna Williams of Lob Angeles and a
cornet solo, Over the' Stars There is
Rest, by Mr. Roy Sumner of Los Ange
les; accompanists, Misses Bertha
Walker and Dell Mathews.
ATHLETIC CLUB.
A Handball Tournament Under Consid
eration by the Members.
The members of the Athletic club
are discussing tbe idea of having a hand
ball tournament sometime within a
month or two.
The proposition has thus far met with
favor among the athletes and it is prob
able that tho affair will be arranged.
There are at present iully 50 excellent
baud ball players in tbe club, and one
end of the large gymnasium is fitted up
as a court. The members practice daily
and some excellent games and clever
playing can be witnessed at any time.
Accotding to tbe present idea the
tournament will be between teams com
posed of two men each. By this ar
rangement if all of tbe 50 players enter
'there will be 25 teams to play and the
tournament will be prolonged. The
finish will probably be very close, how
ever.
A Dangorous Counterfeit.
San Bbbnardino. Feb. 11. —A danger
ous counterfieit has appeared here in
the shape of a fac-simile of a $2 certifi
cate, bearing the head of Gen. W. S.
Hancock, of the series of 1886. The
counterfeit is so perfect that none but
experts are able to detect it. Tbe lathe
work around the figure two in the upper
right-hand corner is light and tbe lines
are not so distinct as in the genuine
bills.
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