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SUPPLEMENT
IS THE STATE DIVISIBLE?
Answers of Many Prom
inent Citizens
THEY HI DIFFERENT OPINIONS
Some Opposition on the Grounds
of Sentiment
THE MAJORITY FAVORS IT
Several Think the Question Premature
at This Time
Interesting Views ot Well Known Men In
Southern California
Daniel Freeman Thinks a Useless Attempt at
This Time Would Only Embitter
Section Against Section
Shall the great state ol California be
divided?
This is the question that The Herald
has asked of many citizens of Southern
California. It is a question that South
ern California must consider. It is a ques
tion, too, that Southern California must
answer. The question was raised south of
Tehachepi. Already the north has an
swered with an emphatic "no," and if
Southern California desires the division
of the state her citizens must be united
upon the proposition. Even then it is not
certain that the end could be achieved in
the near future. Certainly, unless the
vast majority of the voters of Southern
California desire the change and believe
that California should be divided into
northern and southern states, there is
little chance of a minority or even of a
bare majority of the citizens of this sec
tion of the state being able to enforce
their views.
But, now, what are the views of the citi
zens of Southern California on this im-
portant question?
In order to answer this question The
Herald has communicated with a large
number of the best known property own
ers, merchants, bankers, and prominent
citizens in all parts of Southern Califor
nia. Next to knowing the exact strength
of a given issue, it is valuable to know
the views of the representative citizens,
or a large portion of them. In a previous
issue The Herald published a large num
ber of opinions of well-known citizens on
the question, and now another batch of
answers to the Herald's interrogatory cir
cular has accumulated, and are published
in the following columns:
The form ol The Herald's circular was,
"Are you favorable or unfavorable to state
division? Why?" Some of the answers
are lengthy and some of them very brief.
Here is a very brief one from George
E. Bridges of Beaumont, who answers
with a single word, "Favorable."
Another brief and pointed answer is
that of AVilliam Starbuok of Fullerton,
wdio says: "Favorable—First, state too
arge; second, interests too diversified to
permit of universally beneficial legisla
tion."
"I am in favor of state division," says
C. Uncommon of Los Angeles.
"Not at this time."—Henry T. Haz
ard.
H. It. Gregory of Calico says, "Favor
able."
J. W. Tnrner of Santa Ana says,
"Yes; state too long, and parts too diver
sified in many features."
J. A. Owens of Daggett writes, "I am
unfavorable to state division."
O. li. Livesey, of Fairmount, says,
"Unfavorable; there is not population
enough to make one strong state yet."
! Richard Gird, of Chino, says, "Favor
able."
B. li. Barney, of Hanford, answers,
"At present unfavorable."
W. W. Howard, of Alessandro, "My
answer is, unfavorable, as it now seems
unnecessary."
W. Newport writes, "I am not in fa
vor of state division at present; I think it
a little premature."
Mrs. W. A. Blasters, of Pasadena,
kindly writes: "Mr. Masters is in the
East, but I know that he would reply to
your question that he is in favor of state
division."
The other and longer answers are as fol
lows :
C. F. Emery, Alpine—l was born in
Woodland, Yolo county, Cal., and, of
course, think there is no place like Cali
fornia. But I think the conditions are
very different between Northern and
Southern California. Our interests in re
gard to irrigation and many other things
do not receive the attention at Sacramento
that they should. We can and should
have a new state This is my wish.
W. S. Wright, attorney, Pasadena-
Unfavorable at present, for the reason
that the southern portion of the state can
not afford the expense now attendant
upon state division. Its growth during
the last ten years has been phenomenal,
and the necessary public expenditures in
the matters of roads, bridges, public
buildings and public services have been so
great as to become almost burdensome. I
believe the time will come when the state
n ill be and ought to be divided. It would
be hard to lose our proper share (senti
mentally) in its greatness and traditions.
E. E. Burgess, El Cajon—Yes, state is
too large, and southern parts want to be
different from the north and need differ
ent laws.
J. 1). Cram, Postmaster—Favorable.
Because I believe it would be for the best
interests of Southern California, as I con
sider our industries entirely separate.
Ralph Rogers, 321 West Second street,
Los Angeles—Yes; because geographically
we need to divide, and because we have
all the enterprise in the state.
Robert W. Smith. Ballard—Unfavor
able. Better bear the ills we have than
iiy to others that we know not of for a
while longer.
W. H. Wright, Colton—Yes, our in
terests are altogether different from those
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of the north; again, we are controlled by
San Francisco corrupt politicians, evi
denced by the last election'which would
not be so were Los Angeles the head
quarters.
H. A. McCoy, Postmaster—f have put
the question to several prominent men
here and they agree with me that the time
is not yet to advocate state division. Ex
tra expense is the principal reason.
D. Freeman, Los Angeles—l do not
approve of any agitation at present in
favor of state division. It could not now
be done, and a useless attempt would only
embitter section against section. I prefer
not to be quoted on the question.
A. P. Bent ley, Compton—Decidedly in
favor of division as soon as the same can
be accomplished. The state is too large
and too long (embracing ten to fifteen de
grees of latitude), and the state govern
ment should become nearer to a govern
ment of the people in their own locality.
B. 8. NicholH, Pomona—l am not suf
ficiently informed to give an opinion on
the subject, and therefore cannot decide
the question pro or con.
R. E. Nickel, editor and proprietor
Acton Rooster—l am not in favor of state
division at this time. When we will have
more population, then it will be more
practical.
G. Z. Griffiths, Los Angeles—l am
opposed to such action for many reasons
which I deem good, prominent among
them being:
First—That the southern state would
contain a population not materially ex
ceeding one-fourth of that of the present
state, and the great cost of organizing
and establishing a new state government
would put a tax upon this comparatively
small number of people that would be
an exceedingly heavy burden for many
years.
Second—As the state is now completely
in the grasp of a combination of political
tricksters who control and manipulate all
of its affairs to suit themselves, it would
be decidedly impolitic to strengthen their
hands by creating a host of new offices to
be filled, and a large amount of new
political business to be controlled by
them.
Third—The state as it now stands has a
history and a prestige the peer of any in
the Union, and to divide it would be to
destroy the autonomy to which these at
tributes belong, and they form the nu
cleus of a warm and tender affection, sur
rounded by rich memories of hope, dis
pointment, success ami all other senti
ments of human life, that cannot be erad
icated from the hearts of old Californians.
E. C I>enlo, attorney, Long Hcach—-I
am opposed to state division, first, as
matter of economy in state government.
I believe we are strong enough to demand
and obtain all that rightfully belongs to
the southern part of the state, and if that
be true, I can now see no reasonable
grounds for desiring division. I should
regret exceedingly to see a step taken that
would so inevitably tend to diminish the
influence that California is bound to exer
cise in national affairs in the near future
if left to develop without dismemberment.
Many Citizens of LemoO>t l 6 —No. Not
until you build a competing railroad into
this section. Thai? may change our
opinions.
E. Bouton, Los Angeles—l think the
division of California impossible and the
discussion of thequestion unprofitable and
detrimental. Some years ago I discussed
the matter with Senator John Sherman,
who expressed the opinion emphatically
that it was simply impossible, BSjying that
California with three-quarters of a million
of people had four Senators, while New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with an
average of 4,000.000 each, had but two Sen
ators apiece, and that the United States
Senate would never vote to give California
two more Senators. He credited the two
Nevada Senators to California.
John F. Humphreys, Los Angeles—l
am decidedly in favor of state division,
and deem this an appropriate time to be-
ONE WAY TO SPEND PIN MONEY
gin an active discussion of the subject ;in
order that the people may be fully pre
pared to carry it into effect two years
hence; and even this delay would be un
necessary if the financial conditions of our
country were more encouraging. The
rapid growth and prosperity of Southern
California the past two years, ami which
will be more noticeable in future, will of
itself force state division, if from no other
reason than that we are too far from th"
seat of government and our interests not
identical with those of the northern nor
i irtr,
A. H. Naftager, of Stewart & Naftzger,
the brokers, Lob Angeles—l do not think
favorably of state division nt this time.
The machinery of state government is too
expensive for Southern California to un
dertake with its present population. I
think it could not be done without in
creasing the taxation, which is already too
high.
C. G. Wlllmau, merchant and insur
The hei^ld
ance agent, Fillmore, ,'entura county-
While at some future ti.ne it will no dotibt
he brought about, /et I hardly think it is'
an issue, neithei could i care to indorse
it at this time.
E. S. Italic ok. manager Hotel Del
Coronado —I 'am favorable for state divis
ion. Principal reasons are climatic con
ditions and the necessity of handling the
water question differently.
T. G. Gibbon, of Los Angeles, writes—
Tn reply to your communication request
ing my opinion on the matter of state di
vision, I have to say that in the present
aspect of the question I am decidedly
against the idea of making two states out
of the state oi California. I can imagine
the possibility of a change of conditions
being wrought by increased wealth and
population in the southern portion of the
state which will make it expedient and
advisable to have a separate state organ
ization with its center in Southern Cali
fornia. I am very sure, however, that
that time has not arriveu, and think a di
vision of the state at the present time
j would simply result in more officials ami
i increased expenditures, without anything
approaching a corresponding increase in
benefits.
Would Pay Him
A man walked into a saloon yesterday,
and after saluting the barkeeper, said:
"Uive me a glass of beer. .Ah, this is
good," he said, smacking his lips; "whoso
beer is it?"
"That is Blank's beer," said the bar
keeper, "the best mads; in Detroit."
I "Well," added the man "1 know Blank
; myself, and the next time 1 meet him I
! will pay him for it."—The Detroit Tri
! bunc.
The Original Annie Laurie
In the l.yric Gems of Scotland, issued
by John C*ruueron, Argyle street, Glas
gow, page 80S, is the following note:
"The original song of Annie Laurie, ac
i cording to Mr. Robert Chambers, was
! written By a Mr. Douglas of Finland,
I upon Annie, on< of the four daughters of
Sir Robert Laurie, first baronet of Max- I
' welton, by his second wife, who was a I
I daughter of "Rlddell" of Minto. As Sir ,
Robert was created a baronet in 1885, it is
i probable that the verses were composed
I about the end oi* the seventeenth or the
I beginning of the eighteenth century. Tlie ,
beautiful ai,r to which the modern is
adapted, is said to be the composition of
Lady Scott."
The original verses are given as follows:
MaxweHon braes are bonnie,
Wheie early fa's the dew,
Where tne and Annie Laurie
Made up the promise true.
Made up the promise true,
And ne'er forgei, will 1;
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I will lay me down and die.
She's backtt like the peacock,
Sue's briestil like die swan,
She's jimp about the middle,
Her waist ye vveel mieht span;
Her waist ye weel mieht span,
And she has a willing eye,
Aud for bonnie Anuie Laurie
I'll lay me down and die
The Christian Endeavor Societies in the
United States and Canada are requested
to send their Christian Kndeavor Day
anniversary offerings either for the build
ing p( a church house in Tokio, Japan, or
for a school for colored people at Frauk
linton, N.(J.
NICOTINE AND PIN MONEY
Out-of-the-way Subjects for a
New York Letter
SMOKINO DENS OF LUXURY
Mrs. Vanderbilt Spends a Cool Hundred
Thousand on Trifles
nr.. Havemeyer Needs Sixty Thousand a Year
for Pin-Honey, and Mrs. Willie Vanderbilt
Nearly as Much
New York, Feb. 20.—The housewives of
the 400 are more careful of their
CORXKLTrs T>F.X DP THE WEED
dainty belongings than would seem pos
sible to those of us who have not $100,
--000 a year to spend upon our our home
making and housekeeping. The curtains,
draperies and furniture for their recep
tion moms, parlors and boudoirs cost a
very fair sized fortune, and tobacco smoke
is., not considered by those in authority
conducive to the improvement of such
airy, fairy fabric*. .So the smoking
room has become as necessary a part of
every millioairc's home as is the (lining
room.
The mistress of the house chooses a
room, generally smaller than the other
apartments, convenient to dining room
and ball room, ills it up in the cosiest
fashion imaginable, provides all kinds of
smoking supplies, and then woe betide
her unhappy lord and master if he and
his friends do not take themselves to this
room when they wish to enjoy a smoke.
Elbridge T. Gerry has the Hlrtest smok
ing room in the world in his new place on
upper Fifth avenue, and what is dearer to
every devote of the Princess Xioctine, he
gives his guests the perfection of cigars to
smoke, aud there is practically no Ijmit.
to to the supply, lie calls them the "Squad
ron Cruise, " and they arc made just to
his liking and come each wrapped sepa
rately in tinfoil. As he takes tbe whole
output of a Cuba plantation, these cigars
cost him only 40 cents apiece.
lint the room his friends smoke them in
is a dream. The walls are covered with
velvet of a soft gray color, ami the frei/.e
is rich with silver and gray mingled in a
COUvenional design. The door is of hard
wood, beautifully polished ami overlaid
with Oriental rug's, almost works of art in
their beauty of coloring and design. The
lounges and easy chairs are covered with
gray velours, and the portiersand curtains
are of the same soft color, richly wrought
in crimson and silver. Substantial rones
of polished mahogany hold the curiously
wrought mahogany cigar boxes' witu
their closely arrayed devices for providing
just the requisite amount of moisture for
the slender, dark room beauties. Curious
old-fashioned silver trays are -used tor
the ash receivers, and there are electrical
appliances in every paper which do away
with the ned for matches.
Put the glory of this beautiul room is
the tire and the fireplace. The mantel is
colonial in fashion, and is made of ex
quisitely carved mahogany; over it is
an oval shaped mirror, which reflects
the curious shaped pipes and tobacco jars
placed along the broad shelf. The plate
glass cabinets on either side of this man
tle are tilled with pipes which Would de
light any smoker's heart.
Meerschaums, shining ami dark French
briar, almost silver inclosed; comfortable
fat china pipes, and pipes of every tie
sign. The old fashioned fender aud
irons are of polished steel, which almost
looks like silver when they catch the
gleam of the heavy oak logs, glowing and
cracking, and tailing at. last into a bed of
fiery coals. Soft, subdued electric lights
furnish the room with just the half light
which goes best with the glowing lire
place, a good story and a tine cigar,
Cornelius Vanderbilt did not change his
smoking room when he added on aud
almost rebuilt his beautiful home. There
was no need, for no improvement could
lie suggested for that unique and mag
nificent room. It has two entrances, one
from the dining room, whicli makes it
an easy matter to serve the after-dinner
coffee and enjoy the after-dnner cigars at
tlie same time, and the second entrance
from the new grand ballroom. The walls
and ceilings are of metal, and it is im
possible to describe the wonderful irrides
oent effect of the mingled copper and
burnished steel.
The tone of the room is Russian, and
the draperies for tho windows, portieres
and couches are of silk ami wool, beauti
fully wrought in red aud blue in tne well
known Russian cross stitch. There are
pipes, tobacco jars and every article
known to modern smokers, all brought
truni iiussia, and collected and arranged
by Mr. Vanderbilt himself. In one cor
ner of this quaint room is a samovar, and
the host himself frequently make:; the
coffee and te;' # which he serves in ex
quisite cups oi Old blue, dark red, green
or yellow porcelain, set in filagree saucers
of gold, and having beautiful aold spoons,
enameled in colors to match the cup.
There is no open fireplace, but a cur
ious stove of metal auu blue porcelain
answers the purpose admirably, and suits
the room better than a fireplace would.
The fire is plainly seen, anil on the
whole this quaint little apartment is the"
most homelike and attractive spot of all
the 120 rooms which the place contains.
|tt is very likely that George Vanderblit,
the only unmarried son of William K.
Vanderbilt's family, borrowed a few ideas
for his smoking room from his brother
Cornelius, substituting Japan for Russia.
Entering this beautiful apartment, one's
breath is taken away, and it seems almost
that some geni has taken you and
landed you bodily in the kingdo n of the
chrysanthemum. Your feet sink in the
richly colored rugs, which match in their
glorious coloring the silk-hung walls and
ceiling. A screen of wonderfully carved
iyvory stands before the glowing'fire, and
it seems like an exquisite piece of lace as
the light shines through, so wonderfully
delicate and fine is tne work tipon it.
There are couches covered with gold
embroidered blue and ruse silk and satin,
and piled high with the most restful pil
lows it has ever been my good fortune to
lean against. The bronzes, carvings and
paintings, scattered about the room on
teak wood cabinets and pedestals have
cost thousands, and the curious old ar
mor and intricately wrought swords
grouped against the walls are worth a for
tune in i bern selves.
Mr. Vanderbilt is a very clever con
noisseur in all art matters, and he spent
a year in Japan selecting all of his curios
personally. This smoking room could
not hold one quarter of all of his Japan
ese possession-*, but the best ami choicest
have he/?n retained and the others packed
away until he changes the tone of his
smoking room, develops a new country
and bestows the Japanese collection as
a whole upon the Museum or Art. t'ntil
that time comes the pretty nieces, almost
his own age, and the bells and beaux,
will gather in this little bit of the Flowery
Kingdom, wonder and exclaim over its
beauties, drink real Japanese tea out of
fragile, far. Little Clips, and watch the
clever black-eyed little jugglers whom Mr.
Vanderbilt always employs to amuse bis
guests when the smokig room is to be
used to receive and entertain in.
John Jacob Astor has a room in his new
house sacred to s:uoke. It opens out of
the drawing rooms, which are to be three
in number, forming a suit whicli can be
thrown in one for entertaining. The
smoking room is circular in shape, and
the walls are rough finished in a shade of
old rose, witli a frieze of dancing fauns
ami satyrs. The floor is a mosnie of
different tinted stones, and in the center
id' the room is a fountain which sends
up a continual spray of water. A cush
ioned sent extends around the room, and
the hangings and draperies are Moorish
in fashion design and.coloring. Curious
old lamps of jeweled glass in Byzantine
fashion are fitted with electric lights and
hang by heavy brass chains firm the
riehlv decorated ceilin :s. The little
smoking tables, f trnished with cigar
cases, ash receivers and match boxes, of
brass hammered by hand, have no lejrs,
but are fastened to the wall in such a way
ELBRiDGT O. GEr.RY S SMOKER
that they can be swung out for the use
and pushed back out ot the way when the
smokers have done with their pipes and
It would seem that all the originality of j
New Yorkers had been expended upon the '
smoking rooms. All 61 the other apart- i
meuts arc for the most part alike, vary- j
tug only in color atul arrangement; but 1
for these little nooks some object quaint. '
rare and beautiful, has been the motif, and
the room has grown around the precious
object of objects. For instance, *Mrs. The
odore A. Havemeyer has a medieval room
in which her guests smoke, while Mrs.
.Jordan L. Mott, Jr., has grouped alt of
her Napoleonic treasures in a sunny little
corner, and, behold! it is a Napoleon
smoking room. A Trilby smoking room
may be looked for at an early date, for
there are at least two already begun,
with a fair promise of speedy completion.
Some fabulous sums, under tne ficti
tious title ot piu money, are spent yearly
by the wealthy women of New York.
*Pin money to most persons meanß some
insigniftcaht sum anywhere from a few
dollars up to $500 a year. The average
young girl or matron would consider her
self richly blessed were she certain of :r3OO
pin money per annum, and would will
ingly consent to furnish all her wants
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with it, wardrobe included. To the eco
nomically inclined woman $300 a year
would seem quite a fabulous amount for
clothes and the trifles of every-day life.
But pin money to the tune of $60,000 a
year—&">ooo a month, or $1200 a week
barely supplies the needs of some of the
fashionabl" women of New York. There
are two wore women in the metropolis
who have that much, and a great deal
more, to spend upon purely feminine
wants, and they spend it so well that oft
entimes they have something unpaid at
the end of the year.
Others pet rid of their money more
sat isfactonly. These are tho women who
accomplish good in a charitable way,
spending liberally upon the floor of the
tenements, and "cheering the sick in the
hospitals with dainties which only a
well-filled parse can procure.
Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer, wife of one
of the Sugar Trust kings, possibly spends
more money than a y other woman in
New York, although dot husband is not
as wealthy as a large number of other
men. In addition to having what is
generally credited to be the prettiest house
id town, Mrs. Havemeyer maintains it od
a most elaborate scale.
Aside from these expenses, says an in
timate friend of the lady, she disposes of
165,000, and perhaps $ti5,000, a year on
purely personal .„ Alters. The fushionable
modistes, furriers ami milliners, and all
classes of tradespeople who have dealings
with the swaggger set, would rather see
Mrs. Havemeyer enter their places of
business than a dozen ordinary rich
women.
She hits the reputation of having never
been known lo ask the price of any"article
in a store. If she fancies it she says
"Send it home." Those are golden words
to the shopkeeper. It is not only small
things that she buys in this way. She
purchased a $1500 t'iir opera cloak without
knowing or asking the price and footed
the bill without a question. None of
the tradesmen impose upon Mrs. Have
meyer because of thill peculiarity.
Iter custom is too valuable to jeopardize
it by overcharging.
Mrs. Havemeyer is fond of flowers. She
buys lavishly, and has spent us much as
$000 for a great basket of orchids. She
also shows great ingenuity in devising
schemes for spending so that, her friends
will benetit by it. Last Christmas she
hud a Santa Clans party ut which there
were 75 guests. There was dancing, ami
a Christmas tree hung with 75 gifts, every
one being a trinket of gold. Some of
these were set with jewels, and this little
[ml did not cost Mrs. iiavemeycr much
less than $2500.
Mrs. I'red Vanderbilt goes less into so
ciety than any of the wives of tho Vander
bilt men. She enjoys pin money to the
tune of $60,000 a year;comparatively litrio
of it is spent upon herself or in frivolous
things.
Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt is a woman who
docs a vast amount of good in the cause
of charity. Unlike other rich women,
she does not conduct her philanthropy
through agents. She docs the work her
self, and she has the healthy satisfaction
of knowing that it is well done.
Three atteinoons in the week, when she
is in town, and while her friends are
flitting from one fashionable function to
another, Mrs. Vanderbilt drives about the
tenement house districts, with a com
panion, visiting the homes of the DOOV
aud giving liberally when a really deserv
ing case has been encountered.
Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt, whose
troubles with her husband have occupied
the attention of the two continents for
the past six mouths, is one of the heaviest
sepnders among the 1 ashioliable women
ot the day. It is believed that Mrs. Willie
K. spends fully $100\003 a year on trifles.
It. was her terrific extravagance which
widened the breach between her and her
husband. Mr. Vanderbilt has a fortune
of $80,000,600 and an income of $4,000,000
a year, lie spends more than any other
millionaire in the country.
As au example of Mrs. Vanderbilt's
1 qualities as a spender, the final straw that
broke the camel's buck—ot her wise Mr.
I Vauderbilt's good nature—the following
|is a timely illustration: It occured
l when she and her husband were at the
J Continental hotel, in Paris, just before
j they separated. Mrs. Vanderbilt did not
like he apartments or the furnishings, so
j she engaged an entire floor of the big
I hotel, and then to the surprise of nil Paris
. had it completely refurnished at her own
I cost. As she was going to remain in
Paris only six weeks, this was regarded
las one of the greatest pieces of extrava
i gahcein thehistoryol the French capital.
The furnishings of the floor cost in the
j neighborhood of 175.000 francs, and the
j weekly hotel bill ol the Vanderbilt party
amounted to 15,000 francs.
When the troubles of the Willie K. Vnn
derbllta were being compromised Mrs.
Vanderbilt asked for an allowance of .f'OO,-
IHK) a year.
Mrs. John Jacob &stOT spends about
forty thousand a year in pin money.
[ Mrs. Astor has a great fondness for die
j mond jewelry; she possibly possesses the
greatest number of diamond trinkets of
| any woman in New York society. She
■ makes regular tours of all the great jew
elry establishments of the city in search
lof unique designs in diamonds. She can.
spend $2001) in un afternoon's shopping
with as tittle compunction a.> the ordin
ary woman parts with a ¥2 bill. Mrs.
, George Gould baa an allowance of $5,000
a year for ber personal expenses, and she
1 spends every cent of it. Mis. Oould is in.
' terested in many charitable projects, par
i ticularly those ii>r tlie benefit ol children.
I She is Unusually fond of Sao gowns and
opera cloaks. Of tho latter she has an
extensive variety, some of them costing as
high as KMOO. Mr-. Gould is aba fond of
jewelry, but. she docs not buy as gener
ously as Mrs. Asttii'.
Mrs. Paran Stevens' weakness lies in
the direction of eayly colored gowns, and
she spends about twenty thousand a
year on ber wardrobe and triries. Other
heavy spenders of pin money arc Mr-.
Elbrrdge Terry, Mrs. E. L>. Morgan, Mrs.
Adolph Ladenburg, Mrs, Harry Lv Grand
Cannon, Miss Anna Oould and Mrs. Ornie
Wilson
A novel application of the eleel ric heater
has been recently made in Loudon. I bis
isa wheat dryer, in the form id a wooden
box, containing electrically heated plates
which are maintained at about 2 r il dearees
Fahrenheit. Air is forced over these
plates by a blower, coming out at about
150 degrees Fahrenheit.