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TRADE BOARD
TO PAY BONUS
CLUSTER LIGHTB WILL BURN
CITY POWER
PLANB CALL FOR LIGHTING THE
ENTIRE SYSTEM
Smaller Globes to Be Installed as a
Matter of Economy and All
Lights to Burn This
Fall
Pasadena Airener.
7 North Raymond Avenue.
Phones: Sunset 1807, Horn* 9134.
PASADENA, Sept. 28.-The cluster
lights that have been more or less a*
¦ource of trouble to the board of trade,
Which was instrumental in their installa
tion, will be lighted by the city In about
St month. The Edison company will can
cel their contract with the board of trade
by paying a nominal bonus, and this win
ter when the tourists are here all of the
clusters will shed their luminous rays.
The ornamental posts are virtually city
property, as it was the Intent of the sub
scribers who paid for the lights In front
of their respective property that they
should belong to the municipality. Only
fifty of the clusters have ever been in
operation, and the remaining number will
be wired In the near future and trans
formers installed to connect all of them
with the city power fiouse. Instead of tha
Sixteen-candle power lamps now In use
eight-candle power lamps will be in
stalled, which change will effect a con
siderable saving and give as good decora
tive effect, which Is the primary object of
the clusters.
Superintendent Glass has been given
permission to buy for the city a number
of the new style tantalum lamps, for
which are claimed at least 40 per cent
greater efficiency than the carbon fila
ment style in general use. The new lamp
has a filament of the metal tantalum
twelve Inches in length, arranged In ver
tical lines around a central axis, while
the carbon filaments in the old s\yle are
only three to four inches long.
The quality of the light is also better,
being a white light like the arc Instead of
yellow. Another point of superiority
claimed for tantalum is Its longer lit';,
which will effect a saving of at least $2
for each lamp in service. Ten 'of the new
lamps will be installed the first of next
week and the balance soon after. ' The
difference in the cost of the lamps is
alfout 35 cents, but the saving will soon
more than make up the difference, at the
same time giving a better light.
LOCATION OF JEWELS
IS STILL A MYBTERY
Bpeclal to The Herald.
PASADENA, Sept. 28. — The valuables
taken from the home of Mrs. Meeker
on North Raymond avenue has as yet
not been recovered, but the police do
not doubt that they will be able t0
locate it soon. Mrs. Ritzman, the do
mestic who was arrested on suspicion
of being implicated, is out on bail.
Her hearing is set for next Tuesday in
Justice Mac Donald's court. Leon Ritz
man, her husband, was released.
Seven small boys came before Judge
Klamroth this morning for a hearing
on a charge of malicious mischief and
their trial was set for October 5.
They amused themselves a few days
•go by breaking out all of the windows
of a house on the east side of town and
damaging some of the furniture inside.
So popular proved the lecture of Rev
erend F. M. Dowling on the subject of
his European triy that he has been
engaged to repeat it for the benefit of
the North Pasadena Methodist church.
The receipts for the previous lecture
were $440, leaving a net profit of J4lO.
The Odd Fellows and the Woodmen
will unite In giving a musical enter
tainment at Odd Fellows' hall on Mon
day night. Box lunches will be
brought by the women and auctioned.
The proceeds of the entertainment will
be given to.. Brother Childs, who has
been incapacitated by illness for some
time.
The colored Baptist church on South
Pasadena avenue will be opened, to
morrow for public worship. The
building has Just recently been com
pleted and presents a very fine appear
ance. Lieut. Col. Allen Allensworth
Will have charge of the services of tho
day and Reverend J. M. Riddle of lowa
will preach the sermon.
Miss Jennie McKay and John Beaton
were married at fi o'clock this morning
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hor
ton of 475 Winona avenue. Reverend
O. P. Njchols of Altadena performed
the ceremony. Both bride and groom
are from Nova Scotia, where they knew
Mr. and Mrs. Horton. They left after
the ceremony for San Francisco, where
Mr. Beaton is engaged in business.
MAYOR EARLEY APPROVES
THE GARBAGE PLANS
Bpeclal to The Herald.
PASADENA, Sept. 28.— Some fear has
been felt on the part of a considerable
number of Pasadena householders that
the proposed plan of collecting garbage
¦wauld result in a monopoly for Mr. Hill,
who will install the system. Mayor
BCariey states that there it no chance for
extortion, graft or monopoly under the
ordinance that will be framed, but that
instead the people will be given a flrst
dass sanitary servico if they wish It,
but it will not be obligatory to patronize
any particular man.
The standard type of garbage can that
will be adopted wiil be insisted upon, no
matter who makes the collection and
well covered wagons that will not leak
will be another improvement. The price
that Mr. Hill proposes to charge is fifty
cents per month for each can and the
men now In the business cay that he la
welcome to the business at that price, as
they can figure no profit at such a rate.
The installation of the service will cost
in the neighborhood of J25.000. and a large
«urn will be expended monthly for the
maintenance.
The matter of burning refuse and gar
bage on the premises will probably be
allowed to stand aa it is at present bo
that the householders will not be forced
vto patronize the garbage man.
TUMBLE FROM A TREE
i CAUSES DEATH OF LAD
Special to The Herald.
FASADENA, Sept. 28.— Raymond Kyte,
'the 10-year-old son of John M. Kyte of
617 Summit avenue, died this evening at
the Pasadena hospital. The lad fell from
• tree yesterday afternoon and was picked
tip In an unconscious condition.
He was. bleeding from the mouth and
ears when found and never recovered
consciousness. As no one saw the acci
dent occur it Is impossible to tell what
earned him' to fall, but it is thought tnat
he nust have lost his hold and slipped
•while trying to reach a tig high up in
fhe t.unches of the tree
AMATEUR NIGHT MEANS A GALA TIME FOR
AUDIENCES AT HERR FISCHER'S PLAY HOUSE
HOW THEY LOOKED, AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS TOGETHER, TO THE CARTOONIST
AMATEUR night at Fischers theater
is the big night of the week. The
amateurs draw. Crowds pay good
money to hear and see them, and the
worse they are the better the audience
l^es it.
A girl who is rasonably good to look
at, sings fairly 'well and dances with
moderate grace and agility can't make
any kind of a hit, but let another girl
appear, a girl whose features don't know
the value of team work, as George Ade
expresses it; whose voice would put to
sname an asthmatic phonograph and
whose dancing shows the grace of a
rheumatic hippopotamus, and the house
will go wild with delight.
Friday night the winners of the first
three prizes at Fischer's amateur contest
were better than the average. Los Tres
Manos, who won first prize, proved so
good. In fact, that Herr Fischer has
promised to give them a professional en
gagement later. As for the others. Miss
Sadie Harris, "the Bowery girl," did very
nicely after she recovered from her stage
fright; and Miss Ida Sloan, the "woman
from Alaska," wore her elaborate Alaska
costume as though the thermometer
made furs a luxury, which certainly
proves her to be possessed of the true
artistic temperament.
As for the stock company, its members
have come to regard amateur night as a
picnic They crowd into the wings to
watch the amateurs perform. Sometimes
their criticisms are kindly and sometimes
they are not, but they are always to the
point. One of the girls, called the Cuban
act a tabasco number; the Alaskan act a
frost; and the Bowery girl a green lemon
DEATH CLAIMS SISTER
OF ROBERT J. BURDETTE
Operation in Chicago Hospital Per
formed Weeks Ago Proves Fatal.
Was Prominent in Church
Activities „
Special to The. Herald.
PASADENA, Sept. 28.— Rev. Robert J.
Burdette is in receipt of a telegram telling
him of the death of his sister, Miss Mary
Burdette of Chicago. Miss Burdette died
in a hospital following an operation per
formed some weeks ago.
For more than thirty years she was en
gaged in the work of the Baptist church
and was secretary of the Woman's Bap
tist Home Missionary society. She was
also connected with the Nurses' Training
school. She was Go years of age and was
well known" on the lecture platform, hav
ing traveled and lectured in the inter
ests of the missionary society.
Miss Burdette had many acquaintances
In Pasadena, having visited her brother
here eeveral times.
CORNER STONE LAID FOR
NEW CARNEGIE LIBRARY
S[ cclal to Tho Herald.
SOUTH PASADENA, Sept. 28.— The
laying of the coner stone of the Carnegie
library at 3 o'clock this afternOn at
tracted a larg« assemblage. The cere
monies were in charge of the Masonic
order, H. Oscar Lawler, M. G. W. M.
of the Masons of California delivering
the address. I
Tough on Johnny
Mrs. Lapsllng was tolling the caller all about
Johnny's narrow recape.
•I declare," shf said, "I thought he wouM
choke to death before we could get the doctor.
He'd got a piece of green apple fast in his
tlieosophagus and it wouldn't go cither way."
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1907.
— which last was rather tough on Miss
Harris, who has ambitions.
They don't use "the hook" at Fischer's,
though the audience occasionally calls
for It. "The hook" is an eastern institu
tion, and is Just what its name signifies—
a big hook attached to a long handle.
It is used to pull from the stage amateurs
whose acts offend the esthetic taste of
tne audience.
Ordinarily when business is bad a frown
corrugates the managerial brow, but Herr
Fischer reverses this procedure and
frowns when his house is filled. He
frowned Friday night. He began frown
ing at 7:45 and the scowl deepened until
the second show began at 9:45. It was
a full grown, life sized frown, as you
may see from the picture, and the reason
for it lies in the fact that tae herr found
himself compelled to turn away many
good dollars from the box office merely
because he had no more room to seat
spectators. Some ,of them came back
later and took in the second show. Others
didn't, and it was for this lost business
that the Fischerian brow bore its unac
customed corrugations.
Long before time for opening the per
formance the house was packed. Finally
the orchestra appeared and began the
overture. Back on the stage all was In
readiness and when the music subsided
the curtain was rolled up on an acrobatic
vaudeville act, presented by professionals.
Then came motion pictures, through
which the audience waited uneasily, and
after that the amateurs.
The picture man reached the end of his
film. The lights flashed up. The an
nouncer stepped upon the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "the
INQUEST OVER DROWNED
BOY DECLARED UNNECESSARY
Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH, Sept. 28.— Deputy
Coroner Sage this morning took the
testimony of J. W. Russell, Captain
Sam Spikes and Engineer Cleve Hyder
of the launch Music concerning the
death of 17-year-old Bernie Hurst at
Catallna yesterday.
Hurst, who was known here as Ber
nle or "Curly" Ward, was seized with
cramps while swimming after a skiff
which had broken loose from the
Music in "Jim Johnson's harbor" at the
east end of Santa Catallna island.
The others of the Music's crew could
see his body at the bottom of the har
bor, the water being still and clear.
The body was brought to the surface
by catching fish hooks in the bathing
suit the lad wore. Efforts to resusci
tate him were not abandoned for two
hours.
Deputy Corner Sage decided that an
Inquest was unnecessary.
Young Hurst's mother, Mrs. E. S.
Ward of 1177 East Forty-ninth street,
Los Angeles, with her husband, the
boy's stepfather, visited the Orelll-Mc-
Fadyen morgue, where the body lies,
again today. Funeral arrangements
will not be made until word Is re
ceived from Mrs. Ward's daughter in
Sacramento.
BOARD UPTILTS AND
THROWB MAN OVERBOARD
, LONG BEACH. Sept. 28.— 0. Sisk of
Los Angeles, employed by the Mer
cereau Construction company, fell from
one of the Jetties being built at the
mouth of the San Gabriel river this
morning, the accident being caused by
the uptilting of a plank upon which he
stood.
A heavy crosscut saw which had lain
upon the plank and the plank Itself
followed Sisk in his twelve-foot plunge
into twenty feet of water.
He was unhurt and clung to the
floating plank until he was thrown a
rope and hauled back upon the Jetty.
first number on our amateur program this
evening will be Miss Sadie Harris, 'the
Bowery girl.' "
Then a rather pretty girl in a tattered
skirt, loose waist and shoes run down
at the heel made her appearance. She
started to sing. But as her eyes became
accustomed to the lights she saw all
those people out In front and her voice
trembled, broke, quavered and went on
badly off the key. She shook so that
her fright flvas visible even to the audi
ence, but she didn't break down entirely.
The song finished Sadie began a dance
that was really funny, It was so unlike
anything previously seen under that
name. She was applauded liberally and
came off the stage flushed but happy.
It was her first appearance and she had
made good.
"What is your name, my dear"— this
"my dear" is exceedingly professional
and doesn't mean anything— asked the
announcer, "I want It for the paper."
"Oh," she replied, "is my name to be
In the paper? It's Sadie Harris, but I
wish you would put in a pretty one."
Her first appearance, yet she was al
ready ..unking of adopting a stage name
and a "pretty one." It doesn't take long,
you see.
Then came Los Tres Manos. This Is
a Cuban dancing and singing act, quite
professional in appearance. The team is
made up of two men and a woman and
me woman physically is bigger than her
two companions put together. They did
very well, but doubtless did not really
belong in amateur company.
Miss Ida Sloan, winner of the third
prize, sang an Alaskan song indifferently
well, but deserved her money for her
KNOX DISPORTS ON BEACH,
BOYISHLY, IN SANDALS
Throws Senatorial Dignity to Winds
and Plunges Int^ Breakers, Out.
distancing His Boy in
Race to Surf
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 28.— When Sen
ator Knox takes a bath in the surf he is
as frisky as a kitten. He emerges from
a private robing room at the Shelburne
and as he steps from beneath the board
walk clad in a blue flannel suit and beach
sandals he presents a figure that would
simply need the toga to bring the illusion
that a Roman tribune is proceeding ma
jestically to the bath.
Then he kicks tho sandals into the air
with the deftness of an acrobat, and out
pacing his boy plunges into the first big
wave, throwing all of the dignity of the
greatest legislative body in the world to
tne winds. When Senator Knox bathes
he goes right Into the surf with a logical
directness very much after the style of
his speeches, and is a synonym of energy,
coupled with boyish delight, while he is
in the water.
GIRL LAWYER PROBES
THE LUMBER TRUST
Mist Grace Quackenbos Investigating
Matters in New Orleans — Bona.
parte's Emissary Keeps
Mission Secret
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.— A woman
lawyer Is aiding the department of Jus
tice in lta investigation of the lumber
trust. She is Miss Grace Quackenbos of
New York and she has the title of assist
ant United States attorney.
A few days ago Miss Quackenbos
¦lipped into New Orleans. She did not
costume. This consisted of a dress with
hood, called "parkay" by the Alaskans,
made of the skins of thirty-one white
Alaskan jackrabblts, the work being done
by Indian squaws; muclues, or leggings,
of clipped reindeer; gloves of moose
hide, and a baby seal contrivance used
by the Alaskari mother in which to carry
her pappoose. "Miss" Sloan explained
that these things had been sent her by
her husband, who now is at St. Michaels.
That "Miss" is another stage trick.
Again, you will note, it doesn't take them
long to learn.
The amateurs out of the way, the reg
ular performance began and the car
toonist got really busy. He had grabbed
the amateurs on the fly. Now he rapid
ly Jotted down the "salient features" —
that's what he called them — of the pro
fessionals. First Jolly Zez, as a very
unjolly henpecked husband; the leading
woman, who did the pecking; one of the
"Lead Pencil Sisters" In Turkish cos
tume; Kate Carlson, the dainty soubrette,
in a hat that belonged to another girl
and that was almost as big again as its
diminutive wearer; the handsome lead
ing man, and the rest of them.
When It came the soubrette's turn she
tried to tell the cartoonist his business.
"Now, be sure and make my nose p"?e"t
ty," she said; and he did, though the
result Is so obscured by the milliner's
creation that you may not be able to see
the classic lines which were intended to
represent the Carlson nasal appendage.
From a group, some dozen feet distant,
came an excited ejaculation:
"O, girls, my hat's being sketched. It's
great to be a principal, Isn't It?"
know anybody there, and was happy In
the belief that no one knew her except
the officials with whom she had to deal.
However, an energetic newspaper man
found her and obtained a sort of an in
terview from her, but received no Inti
mation of the fact that she was on a
visit of Investigation into the lumber
interests of the south.
Officials of the department of Justice
are guarded in their statements concern-
Ing Miss Quackenbos and her mission.
All arrangements for her work were made
between the attorney general and Miss
Quackenbos, and in the absence of Mr
Bonaparte not an official in the depart
ment will discuss her.
Miss Quackenbos is a member of the
New York bar and has been in the ser
vice of the department of Justice about
eight months. She is regarded as a very
shrewd woman and as eminently fitted
to investigate a trust.
REDUCTION OF CAR SERVICE
DECLARED BUT A RUMOR
Srecial to The Herald.
LONG BKACH, Sept. 28.— A rumor to
the effect that the Pacific Electric com
pany would diminish its service be
tween Los Angeles and this city be
cause of the recent action of the city
council In the matter of franchises held
or desired by the electric company, was
denied today by Attorney E. C. Dennis,
one of the corporation's counsel.
"Mr. Huntlngton has no thought," he
said, "of cutting down the car service
between the two cities for the purpose
of getting even with the citizens."
She Experimented
A little girl of C *m taken to church one
Sunday, and listened with unexpected atten
tion to the sermon, which graphically told
the atory of the stilling of the tempest on the
¦ea of Galilee, and how Christ walked on the
waves. In the afternoon her mother misled
her and began an anxious search of tho house
As she neared the bath room she heard sounds
a small, excited face peering over the rim of
the big white tub, and to hear a small, ex
cited voice exclaim: "Say, mamma, Uils walk-
Ing on the water U quit* a. trick."
HEARD AROUND
HOTEL CORRIDORS
HARRY C. HALL, a prominent business man
from Bait Lake City, la at the Lankenhlm
for a short pieuaure trip to this city and the
benches.
FLINT BOWEN, mine operator and well
known citizen of Denier, Colo., la stopping
at the Hotel Lankershlm for a few days, at
tending to matters of business.
GEORGE O. HAKE of Indianapolis, a tourist
who Is planning to make an extensive tour
of this section of the state, arrived yesterday
In Lot Angeles and baa taken apartments at
the HaywarU hotel.
The Honolulu party of society girls who
have been tourlnp Southern California under
their chapeinne, Mrs. Weatherred. returned
to Los Angeles yesterday and have resumed
their quarters at the Hotel Hayward. They
will be hore bu' a day or so, when they will
It .*ve for &an Francisco to make connection
with the next steamer for Honolulu. The
party Is In tho best of spirits, and Mrs.
Weatherred claims that their experience In
'San Dlcgo wa» most pleasant. The party
visited tha Theosophlcal Institute at Point
Loma, and took an olt-trip to Tia Juana.
HERBERT V. FIELD, Thomas L. Work, E.
A. Luce, B. K. Van Home, Jos. Cauthorno,
H. Qrlnger, H. 8. Crandall, C. C. Chappell.
F. L. Banks, A. Reynolds, Elweln B. Gould
and Claude Woolner, members of Elks lodge
No 168, are regirtered at (the Hayward. All
are baseball players nnd were at Chutes park
yesterday, whore they played the local Elks'
baseball club. They will spend today at one
of tl|» beach retorts, returning In the morn-
Ing to Sun Diego.
H. O. •PEYTON has taken apartments at tbe
Alexandria hotel. He la one of the wealth
iest capitalists of til. Louis.
J. A. GOLDBERG of Baltimore, a prominent
merchant, arrived yesterday and secured
apartments at the Alexandria. He Intends
to make an extonded tour of the state.
8. L. LUTZ, E. W. Wilson and J. Younger,
tourists and capitalists from Peorla, 111., art
at the Alexandria hotel for an Indefinite pe
riod of time, reviewing the financial condi
tions here, and may possibly make a number
of Investments here.
MR. AND MRS. HURTZ of Philadelphia. Pa.,
tiro on a tour ot California and are at the
Alexandria.
W. G. PIERRE of St. Paul, Minn., Is at the
Alexandria on a short .pleasure trip to Cali
fornia.
B. A. HATHAWAY of Grand Rapids, Mich ,
is spending several weeks, registered at the
Alexandria.
M. WORCESTER of Philadelphia has taken
quarters at the Westminster for a brief peri
od. He Intends visiting Cataltna later.
C. T. CARNAHAN, a prominent business man
of Atlanta, fia., will be at the Westminster
for some time.
JOHN D. SPRECKELB of Coronado Beach and
San Francisco Is at the Alexandria, resting
until this morning, when he will leave for
the northern city on some business matters.
HOWARD 8. BTANBBURY of Mexico City Is
at the Alexandria taking a brief vacation
from business.
G. M. FISHER, a merchant of Leavenworth.
Kas.. Is at the Angelus on a pleasure tour of
the west.
DR. J. M. HtTRLEY, a prominent physician of
San Bernardino, Is at the Angelus.
1,. D. RICKETTB, a prominent miner of Can
anea. Mexico, Is at the Westminster for
several days visiting friends.
SHIPYARD TO HAVE
TEN BUILDINGS
PLANS RECEIVED BY THE CRAIG
COMPANY
Work on Long Beach Plant Will Be
Begun Within a Few Weeks
After Opening of
Bids
Long Beack Office,
23 Locust avenue.
Phone-Home 160.
LONG BEACH, Sept. 28.— A full set Of
plans for tha buildings of the Craig Ship
building company were received by Pres
ident John Craig's personal representa
tive today accompanied by instructions
to advertise at once for bids on their
construction. The figures will probably
be in President Craig's hands within three
weeks. Then the contracts will be let
and work will begin at once thereafter.
In the plans today received from Chief
Engineer Becker of the Craig company in
Toledo, 0., ten buildings and a 600-foot
bulkhead are provided for. No estimates
have been made on the work yet by local
contractors. If their figures, are too high
the Craig company may build the plant
by day labor.
The ten buildings shown in the plans
tare to be built of heavy mill timbers,
with the exception of the office buildings,
which will be of brick. The size of tire
buildings will be as fol!ows:V_-
Punch shop, 46x174; foundry, (first sec
tion) 90x100; machine shop, 90x128; power
house, 60x150; boiler house, 25x50; mold
loft, 40x130; forge shop, 45x33; Joiner shop,
40x50; bending floor, 35x35; office building,
30x50.
On the bulkheading along the Craig
water front the cribbing tvHII extend
back about twenty feet. Piling about
thirty feet long will be driven and the
concrete retaining wall will be flfteun
feet high.
A epur from the Salt Lake railway
tracks will ' enter the company's ground.
The epur will branch Into three lines,
two extending to the water front and
one to the machine shop.
TO AID DESCENDANT
OF ZACHARY TAYLOR
Sister Says President's Great.Grand.
daughter, in an Asylum, Is
, Sane — Deep Plot
Alleged
LOUIS, Sept. 28.— Ben yon Phul and
wife have gone to New York to try to
have Miss Sallle Taylor, great-grand
daughter of President Zachary Taylor,
discharged from the psychopathic ward
at Bellevue hospital.
She is alleged to have been put th#re
for the purpose of keeping her out of the
way of her employer, Mrs. Laura Blos
som of St. Louis, whose wealth Is esti
mated at more than $1,000,000.
It is alleged by the Yon Phuls that a
rich New Yorker, who, by a marriage, is
distantly related to Mrs. Blossom, has
for a long time been envious of the inti
mate position that Miss Taylor has been
occupying at the home of Mrs. Blossom,
and afraid that she would Inherit the
fortune. Mrs. Blossom's only ton died
three weeks ago.
Miss. Taylor, who is a trained nurse, is
a sister of Mrs. yon Phul. Mrs. yon Phul
has received a letter signed by Miss Tay
lor, from Carmen, N. V., where It had
been picked up alongside a railroad track.
The letter from Miss Taylor said she was
being held prisoner and asked for help.
"Then you won't let me kiss you?"
"Certainly not! You mustn't desire such
things. Besides, if you did, you wouldn't
want |p half as much!"— St. Louis Re
public.
'DOWN WITH
THE BOSSES'
CITY CLUB GUESTB HEAR THREE
RINGING ADDREBBEB
WOULD OVERTHROW BOUTHERN
PACIFIC MACHINE
Assemblyman Drew, Judge Hunsaker
and Attorney Tyrell Call on Men
'to Demand Popular
Government
Three. Interesting addresses enlivened
yester4ay*B session of the City club.
A. M. Drew of , reßno, member of the
Legislature, who discussed "Civic Cor
ruption—lts Cause and Cure," wag fol
lowed by Impromptu talks by Judge W.
J. Hunsaker and Frank G. Tyrrell.
The three addresses consumed only an
hour's time after luncheon and were
earnest In the dtmand for the overthrow
of political bosslsm in California.
Assemblyman Drew thought that two
ways of curing malfeasance in office were
feasible— publicity and removing tempta
tion.
Drew's Remedy
Publicity, he said, means that you must
watch your public officer, and then to
make sure you mjist watch the fellow
that watches the public officer; and then
to make doubly sure you must watch
the fellow that watches the fellow that
watches your public officer, and so on ad
Inflnitum, until you virtually do the work
yourself.
The second method, If possible, Is the
most effectual, as practically demon
strated at our two public institutions— ona
at San Quentln, the other at Folsom.
The best way to cripple the bosses h«
thought was to remove the spoils largely
by putting clerkships and many other
positions now at the mercy of the boss
under civil service.
Aside from this, however, It was neces
sary to see that the civil service commis
sion itself was not appointed by the same
boss.
People's Will Stifled
"If you destroy the power of the politi
cal boss you once more get a government
of the people," said Judge Hunsaker.
"'Not in many years have we in Califor
nia enjoyed government by the people.
"We have been governed by the South
ern Pacific railroad for Its own benefit
and that of other predatory interests
allied with it, with the result of complete
overthrow in this state of popular gov
ernment."
The speaker said he had from time to
time noticed many independent move
ments launched, but too often the leaders
engaged finally in a contest for spoils, and
the real object of the movements was
lost.
"We have a good civil service law, con
scientiously administered by men who be
lieve In the principle of reform," he sa'.d.
"Then soon will the political boss be out
of an occupation.
"Wipe Out the Machine"
"This movement whereby the people are
commencing to reclaim their power which
corporations have usurped is abroad now—
there is a feeling in the land that more
men are needed like Governor Folk of
Missouri and out* own great president.
"If the people will only be true to them
selves with no desire to take the spoils
but to give us a reform government the
Southern Pacific machine will be swept
off the map of California."
Frank G. Tyrrell said those who had
preceded him had-- appealed *o the top
range of our intellectual faculties and
had rung truly the yearning for better
civic ideals.
"If our friend, Joseph Folk, ever goes
wrong it will only be through ambition,"
said the speaker.
"I was with him In St. Louis fourteen
years ago. Folk's fight was absolutely
disinterested. He was butting the bull off
the brim.
"Bad Politics of Good Men"
"One of the factors that opposed him
at the outset was the great mass- of
frigidity and of quasi criminal neglect
and indifference on the part of the people,
"Those who ought to failed to help him
Tith their moral muscle and sinew.
"He suffered, St. Louis suffered, Mis
souri suffered and the nation suffered
from the bad politics of good men.
"I see no way out of It but to continue
this agitation and appeal to the soldierly
courage of our fellowmen.
"As magnificent as Is the business pros
pect in Southern California, as alluring
and as easy as success seems to some in
business there are other ideals more mas
terful. •
"The hearts we need are those which
will yield an Immediate response to the
higher Ideal of disinterested public ser
vice.
"Every man Is willing to shoulder a
gun to resist the invasion of the enemy.
"We want,: however, more of the cour
age and sacrificial heroism of peace— now.
Civic Lethargy
"The difficulty with Folk was this civic
lethargy.
"Finally the people awakened. They sat
up. It was the awakened conscience that
made Folk governor of Missouri.
- "He is the incarnation of a moral ideal.
"He is not greatly magnetic and not a
politician. He will not have a great
career in politics unless the tides come
together. But he has the moral tenacity
which beats a bulldog's Jaws.
"There are multiplied scores of men like
him in civil life.
"The trouble is they don't get away
long enough from the main chance.
"We of California are going to get the
ear of the people. We will set the state
afire and we will yet break the political
chains and throw down the collar of the
bosses that now hold tia down."
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