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MASON—Dnrk.
AUDITORIUM—Bark.
MAJESTIC and Dill to "Playing the
Ponies."
BELASCO —"Miss Hobbs." __ .__
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Chute*." _
BURBANK—"The Circus Girl."
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HARRIMAN'S WORD
Tl J R.* HARRIMAN probably by this
time beginning understand
time is beginning to understand
JJJL the people of Los Angeles Intend
to hold him to his promise to build a
new station. Mr. Harrlman is not ex
actly Ingenuous when he talks of the
Southern Pacific's claim of $1,600,000
which must be collected from the gov
ernment If Los Angeles Is to have the
station. It looks as If the railroad
magnate were using the need of Los
Angeles and the undoubtedly . strong
public sentiment in favor of a station
as factors in the collection of the sum
he mentioned.
One would naturally suppose he had
served notice on the government that
if it has any regard for Los Angeles
lt must "pungle up" in order that he
may give this city a metropolitan
depot. But Is not Mr. Harriman laying
himself open to the accusation' of
drawing a red herring across the trail?
He Is in debt to the city of Los An
geles to the extent of One Depot. He
owes this city a railway station if his
word ls to count for anything, and
surely the ablest of all the railroad
giants and financiers ia a man of his
word.
Now why should he make the keep
ing of his, word dependent on the set
tlement by the government of a for
tuitous claim which the railroad holds?
HOW ABOUT THE CLAIM OF LOS
ANGELES ON THE RAILROAD?
Is lt not a fact that Fifth street was
vacated on the promise a fine new
station would be erected SOON?
What is the meaning of the word
SOON?
Surely Mr. Harriman did not pull
wool over the eyes of the council that
made him a present of a fine site!
Surely Mr. Harrlman would not be
guilty of trying to fool the people of
Los Angeles!
Let him restore public confidence in
him and his promises by building a
modern depot.
HANDSOME SAVING
WITH proverbial good luck, or good
fortune, or good guidance, or
perhaps with all three, Los An
geles, by buying 168 of the aqueduct
bonds has saved $38,000 of the tax
payers' money which, but for the pur
chase and retirement of the bonds,
would have been paid for Interest. The
bonds, which have a face value of $1000
each, were purchased in the market
. for $171,842. Eighty-four of the bonds
would have fallen due in 1914 and the
other eighty-four a year later.
* The money with which they were pur
chased _ had been accumulated ln the
sinking fund sat aside for the retire
ment, of the bonds as they fall due.
In purchasing the bonds the city had
to pay $3842 Jin excess of their face
value, "but this represents the interest
premium the city received on them
when they were first sold, and the
accrued Interest which the city will
; theoretically pay to and collect from It
self. Los Angeles has had a marvelous
financial career, . and its credit Is bet
ter than that of any other city in the
United States. *Y.l- 'X
CRIME AGAINST
CRIMINALS
COL. GRIFFITH J. GRIFFITH, the
. leader in the prison reform move
ment which is beginning to make
Its Influence for good felt, said In an
address reported in Los Angeles Her
ald in November, 1908: "For fifty
years San Quentln, as conducted in the
past, unquestionably has been a school
for crime, managed not by trained
men,' but by most brutal methods.
Once a new prisoner Is ushered Inside
the gloomy walls of that prison, the
very air seems charged with hate and
revenge, as he hears from the mouth
of old prisoners appalling stories of
brutality, such as murder, maiming
and crippling for life of helpless men,
perpetrated by the prison officers, who
represent organized society."
In his address on the subject. "Crime
Against Criminals," Col. Griffith said
his accusation that San Quentln was
a school for crime was not a rhetorical
statement but a literal declaration of
actual fact.
Moreover, beyond the revolting and
disgusting details of life ln San Quen
tln, there is grave reason for question
ing the general efficacy of a system
the chief aim, or at any rate the chief
result, of which seems to be the pro
motion of degeneracy and the ad
vancement of crime.
A prisoner today, says Col. Griffith,
is treated as the farmer never dreams
of treating his most worthless cattle.
"Finally, on a date set years before
by a Judge who simply guessed at
what he thought would be the proper
time, this man, whom you have been
deliberately brutalizing for years, finds
the prison doors opened and he is
thrust out Into the world again. Physi
cally he is weak from years of con
finement. Morally his will pow^* has
been undermined completely by long
obedience to autocratic orders, he
having been forced to live under con
ditions in which he ls not allowed to
consult his own Judgment. Intellectu
ally he has lost all grip of affairs, for
he has not been allowed to see a news
paper published In the state. You
thrust such a man Into the world
again, with $5 in his pocket and a
suit of clothes that costs the state;
$2.95, and that every detective recog
nizes at a glance. Then you say to
such a man. 'Now, be good.' "
Civilization, civilization, what crimes
are committed in thy name!
GOOD ROADS
IN THE latest annual report of the
secretary of agriculture the fol
lowing statement was made: "Con
sidering the year as a whole, it ls with
in the bounds of conservatism to say
that far greater results have been ac
complished than in any preceding year,
and that the status of road work in
general throughout the United States
ls more advanced and promising for
future development than ln any year
I since the settlement of North America
by the white man."
Auto vehicles have had much to do
with the revival and growth of good
roads sentiment in the United States
within the past few years. At first re
garded by the farmer with suspicion,
and then with Jealousy, he has finally
reached the conclusion that automo
biles are useful and not merely orna
mental, and the farmer wants auto
vehicle roads, and Is willing to co-oper
ate with the "pleasure car" people in
building them.
Three events have been noted recent
ly which may be said to be Interrelated
with the general good roads movement.
A rapid motor vehicle sight-seeing
Pullman car is in commission; in fact,
an example of it will carry passengers
from Hollywood to the summit of
Lookout mountain.
A motor truck capable of heavy
hauling at good speed has established
an agency in Los Angeles.
Specifications for the grading and ex
cavation of the seaward end of the
harbor road from Los Angeles to Wil
mington and San Pedro have been
completed by the engineering depart
ment of the highway commission and
will be presented today to the super
visors for approval.
This road to San Pedro will be the
main one between Los Angeles and its
deep sea harbor, and undoubtedly will
carry much of the harbor freight traf
fic. Good roads and auto vehicles will
inaugurate a new era in American
civilization era of Independence
from the railroads which for years
have been the arbiters of the destinies
of many villages, townships and farm
settlements.
INDUSTRIALISM
A FEW YEARS AGO there were still
lingering among the ranks of the
public writers those who persisted
in alluding to Los Angeles as a "pretty
village." They could not or would not
be convinced of the metropolitan
growth of our city; and if anyone who
had visited the Golden West and had
become convinced from actual observa
tion that commerce and manufacturing
on a huge scale would be established
here ventured to contradict them he
was told to Join an Ananias club.
Probably the most convincing proofs
of the growth and the prosperity of
Los Angeles that were supplied to the
Incredulous east were the orders for
various kinds of machinery and for
other manufacturing or commercial
supplies that began to be sent to that
part of the country J which haughtily
called Itself THE industrial section.
Today conditions are being changed
with amazing and gratifying rapidity.
Machinery manufactured In the far
west— of lt in Los Angelesls
being shipped . east, and the Los An
geles stamp is on many manufactured
articles of the highest order of merit,
from church organs to musical boxes,
from automobiles to toy engines. By
the formation of the seaport city,
Greater Los Angeles, by the establish
ment of the expected government lino
of steamers, by the development of San
Pedro harbor, and finally by the com
pletion of the Panama canal, industrial
opportunities in Los Angeles and South
ern California will be increased to such
an extent Los Angeles will be without
rival ln the west. \
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1909.
Taft: "He Doesn't Seem to Notice Me!"
• "■.■■_..- —Cleveland Plain Dealer,
MAYOR'S POLICY
•M If AYOR ALEXANDER has shown
MAYOR ALEXANDER has shown
ln a most convincing manner
■"-*■ that his policy is exactly what
The Herald said it would be and what
the mayor's friends predicted it would
be. Honesty is the best policy, and
honesty is the mayor's policy. An hon
est regard for the welfare of the city I
prompted him to recommend economies ;
which would save Los Angeles upward
Of $4000 a year. He proposed that the
office of mayor's messenger should be
abolished. He proposed also that cer
tain inspectorships should be abolished,
and the duties connected with them
transferred without any possibility of
an impairment of efficiency by the
economical transfer.
In everything he has done or has
suggested Mayor Alexander has given
proof of his desire to put the adminis
tration of the government .of this city
on a common sense, businesslike basis.
In this he is carrying out the wishes of
the citizens, who are sick and tired of
tax-eaters—or "taxophagists," as some
one has called them facetiously.
The city is looking to Mayor Alexan
der to establish a business administra
tion and to make our city government
as efficient In every branch as is any
big business concern that represents
private capital. Councllmen who try
to block or interfere with the mayor's
policy of honesty and economy are run
ning a risk of recalling to the public
mind the fact of the existence of a
provision in the charter of the city for
the retirement to private life of public
office holders who allow private Inter
ests or prejudices or private motives of
any kind to Interfere with the faith
ful performance of their public duties.
LAW DODGERS
GOVERNMENT by Injunction is be
ing travestied by the Chinese in
a remarkable farce. Despairing of
Influencing the new chief of police or
the present administration of our well
governed city, they have had recourse
to the great American injunction game
in order to protect the great Chinese
fantan game. The Chinese gamblers are
trying to get an Injunction which will
prevent the raiding police from enter
ing the rear rooms in which gambling
is carried on.
For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain the heathen Chinee is
peculiar, and yet lt cannot be denied
the injunction method of outwitting the
law never occurred to even the shrewd
est disciple of Confucius. It is the
hypocritical white man who protects
his morals by ordinances and statutes,
and forthwith devises ways and means
of breaking through the safeguards
with which he has surrounded his
civilization. ,
Chief Dishman will succeed in sup
pressing gambling in Los Angeles, and
Chinese gambling, If no worse than any
other kind, is no better.
We may well be pardoned If we re
luctantly believe the assertion that a
highly reputable firm of lawyers has,
been engaged to look after the Interests
of the Chinese gamblers, and to help
the celestials thwart the spirit and
purpose of the campaign for cleanliness
and decency in Los Angeles. It seems
incredible.
GREATER LOS ANGELES
CONSOLIDATION will establish on
the Pacific a southern maritime
metropolis that will rival any of
the great urban centers of population
and wealth in the east.
Greater Los Angeles will be a city
of both achievement and opportunity.
and with its seaport, San Pedro, will
greatly add to the general prosperity
of Southern California. Therefore it
Is to the Interest of the southern por
tion of our big state to "boom and
boost" consolidation plans.
With all Southern California actively
interested In Greater Los Angeles the
peevish voices of the "antis" would be
silenced. No man with a regard for
his reputation for common sense can
afford to echo the cry for what the cor
poration agents call an "Independent"
San Pedro. Corporation domination Is
the corporation Idea of harbor "inde
pendence," and this fact is so well
known to the public that the very
suggestion of an attempt to thwart the
consolidation project and Harrlmanizo
San Pedro harbor would arouse a furi
ous tempest of indignation.
Every harbor right that has been
won by the people must be jealously
guarded and preserved, and all who
would wish to see San Pedro grow and
prosper should heartily support and
work | for the complete success of the
Greater Los Angeles plans. .-.'•-
EDUCATION
i TT IS singularly unfortunate there
' IT IS singularly unfortunate
should have been an Interference
: -*• with the $720,000 bond Issue for the
extension and Improvement of the pub
j lie school system in the city and
I county. Since Los Angeles cherishes
the laudable ambition to become the
I educational metropolis and literary
center of the west, lt were well 4 for
citizens who really have the Interests
of the city at heart to refrain from
putting an obstacle ln the way of edu
cational progress.
Education has always been a matter
of extreme Importance in the United
States, and this more than anything
else explains the nation's greatness.
Without education the vast mixed pop
ulation of North America soon would
degenerate Into- a disorderly rabble,
and chaos would overwhelm custom.
The best friends of Los Angeles are
convinced this city can be made the
educational, literary and musical cen
ter of the west, and It is even possible
it may become the principal educational
center of the United States.
We think all experts agree it is un
rivaled as a place for voice culture.
But It lends itself with equal ease to
mind culture and physical culture.
Where can be found an educational
center so well proportioned, so well bal
anced?
Now, the harmony of this balance
should be illustrated in routine educa- '
tional work, which ln Los Angeles
should be guided and conducted in a
manner that would be a model and a
pattern to the nation. What, then,
. shall be said of a discordant Interrupter
who not only retards educational prog
ress ln Los Angeles, but publishes to
the world there ls in the midst of this
city, with all its spiritual and Intellec
tual wealth, a spirit so peevish that
for thoroughly selfish reasons It would
disturb the educational program and
delay the accomplishment of the city's
patriotic effort to reach the highest
state of general educational efficiency
by making ample provision for public
schools and their equipment.
' Officers and a large number of mem
bers of the National Association of Re
tall Grocers will arrive in Los Angeles
next month. They will be on their way
to the Seattle exposition, but they do
not wish to miss the opportunity of
seeing Lovely Los Angeles and some of
the adjacent country. This proves the
National Grocers are men of great good
sense.
Most curious characteristic of for
tune tellers is they are never able to
foretell the exact minute or even the
day upon which they will be raided,
and they never can predict what will
happen to them in court. But perhaps
they -would not reckon that to be for
tune telling. They might call it mis
fortune telling.
It is announced a representative of
a London firm that has the contract for
the decorations of a magnate's homo in
South Pasadena has arrived and will
take charge of the work. How about
scores of native artists, capable and
willing? How about the contract labor
law?/Has it been repealed? Or is it
only being dodged?
By the Young Women's Christian
association tonight will be given the
first of the closing exercises for the
educational year. The Young Women's
Christian association is a boon and a
blessing to thousands of young women,
especially to those who have to "make
their own way in the world."
South Pasadena has voted $60,000
school bonds. And probably South
Pasadena will go ahead with her school
building project without having to fight
it through the courts. Hindrances to
education are hindrances to civiliza
tion.
A federal steamship line between
Panama and Pacific coast ports will
help solve the problem of freight car
rying and business expansion. The
people of the Pacific coast would be
benefited by reduced transcontinental
rates. , ',';-
An important annual convention,
that of the California Bankers' asso
ciation, will be held at Del Monte this
month. Many Important topics will be
discussed and the sessions promise to
be of more than usual Interest.
Eastern hardwood trees are to be
Introduced Into California, where it Is
hoped they will grow fast enough to
make up for hardwood devastation by
reckless timbering lh the east.
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BLAMES MOTHERS FOR
FOOLISHNESS OF GIRLS
LONG BEACH, May 11.—[Editor
Herald]: The special Mothers' day,
with Its ' crowded halls, its speeches,
pathetic eulogistic, prophetic, Is past.
Until next May the public will forget
the occasion and most of the Interest
that belongs to It. It ls mighty easy and
absurdly common for the American
people jto set a day apart from the
rest once a year to meet together,
march in noisy procession, dispense
oratory and pass, resolutions, then dis
perse for twelve months. Our public,
as such, does most that it does at all
in this brtiss band, mass meeting, fire
works, orating, circus sort of way. Car
lyle says we are perpetually "reform
ing ourselves by tremendous cheering."
Most of us know that mother's day
is every day in the year. That the In
fluence and necessity for the mother In
every branch of human life is perpetual.
We know also that valuable as mother
love and mother guidance is to the
babes and youth of our land and noble
and elevating as much of the mother
influence is, there is a good deal of It
that needs improving. In all the talk
and writing that I have seen given to
the world on or about Mothers' day
there has been never a word of hope
, that our mothers might "tac a thought
an' men." The flrst emotion that buds
in the character and habits of our
girls is personal vanity. The mothers
are to blame for It. From earliest baby
hood these girl weans are tricked out
with all the fantastic gewgaws that
money can buy, and often the family
bread and clothes are scrimped in con
sequence. The mothers are to blame
for it. As the girl comes to her teens
her vanity is fed at the expense of
her sense, she becomes merely a form
for the milliner to display her "glad
rags" on. The sober dignity that is
the chief grace of womanhood is
scarcely found among our girls. The
simpering giglets ' throng our streets
in city and village, displaying as much
of their charms as they dare, the ser
vant girl with rare exceptions rivaling
as far as her scanty purse will allow
the daughter of the rich. The mothers
are to blame for it. Often these moth
ers are at home washing or mending
scanting themselves of the needs of lif.>
that these butterfly dolls may pose In
the sunshine.
We hear of "white slavery" and the
systematic "ruin of girls." These
smirking feminine mistakes are the au
thors and. inviters of their own fate
Thousands of these youth wasters get
sobered in after life by motherhood and
the washtub, but the game goes on.
It is not my girls, nor yours, Mr.
Reader, of course, bait It's the crowd'
and the mothers are to blame for it.
__±X- SENEX.
PROPOUNDS QUESTIONS FOR
CAPTAIN SMITH TO ANSWER
«L °S ANGELES, May 12.—[Editor
Herald]: That the sophistical absurd
™" ,°. ,the general counsel for the
Model License league were applauded
_. _ *'_? auditors proves conclusively
that few business men have studied
the liquor problem. The space allotted
win not permit going at any detail into
an answer to his speech. The most I
can hope to have published ls a few
questions.
Can the merchant who deals in neces
saries and the saloon keeper who deals
n destructives be placed on the same
legal or social level?
When the scriptures say "Look not
upon the wine when it Is red, when it
giveth Its color In the cup," etc., "No
drunkard shall Inherit the kingdom of
God," is it advocating or prohibiting
strong drink?
Is alcohol made by God or man?
God made dogs and cats; did he In
tend them for food, poisons, etc.?
If "liquor is like a snake," why not
deal it the same blow you do a snake
and be done with It?
If more liquor is sold under prohib
itory law, why do not the brewers and
distillers stand as a man for prohi
bition?
Is not a crime, poverty, Idiocy breeder
an evil per se? If so, then Capt. Smith
says "it should be abolished," and so
say we all.
Is not his argument as an entirety a
plea for commutation of the death pen
alty, impending by public opinion on
the old criminal, to that of life sen
tence? But It won't work. You can't
turn back the clock of time; it's too
late; sentence has already been pro
nounced, and only awaits the moment
of execution. In this case I believe in
capital punishment. The good of so
ciety, of the criminal himself and of
his family demands it.
, SAVONAROLA.
ACCEPT SPIRITUALISM
AFTER INVESTIGATIONS
LOS ANGELES, May 10.— [Editor
Herald]: Mr. Sprading says the names
of scientific men mentioned by me
"were believers before Investigating."
This I claim Is an erroneous assertion
and challenge Mr. Sprading for proofs.
The facts are exactly to I the contrary.
All of these men were either skeptics
or materialists until after a long, care
ful and painstaking series of Investi
gations had taken place, when the evi
dence compelled. them to accept the
spiritualistic' theory as N the only true
one. A. :R. , Wallace started. in - with
the determination of exposing spiritual-
PROGRESS IN MANUFACTURING
Frederic J. Haskin
THE National Association of Manu
facturers will hold its fourteenth
■ annual convention in New York
tomorrow. Perhaps the most Important
thing scheduled to come before them Is
the question of building up an export
trade, especially with South America.
It is probable that they will decide to
publish a Journal devoted to export
business, giving the American manu-
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d_K __M£__£
(actum an adver
tising medium
which will be print
ed in the language
of the countries in
which It is to cir
culate. The manu
facturer feels that
he has outgrown
the home market
and that he must
either get new bus
iness from the oth
er parts of the
world or tear down
the sign of progress
above the door of
h I s establishment.
The association has
recognized this ne
cessity for trade
extension by estab
lishing a bureau
which serves to
bring the seller of
this country and
the buyers of other
countries together.
It translates fifty
letters into English
.. J. Haskin
or from the English Into any other
language free of charge for its mem
bers. It also gives lists of wholesale
dealers, Importers and agents In any
one line for five countries to each mem
ber annually, and Investigates ten for
eign firms free of charge for each
member during each year. .
•_ • •
It will be seen from this that the as
sociation is alive to the importance of
building up the export trade in manu
factures, and to the necessity of united
action in the effort to do so. The serv
ices of the association in this direction
are used far beyond the amount of free
service rendered, the annual ' reports
showing thousands of dollars turned in
from the nominal fees charged for ex
tra services. One of the amusing
things about the nicety with which the
manufacturer has to handle his Span
ish or Portuguese correspondent is the
fact that the American is scarcely able
to write a letter that can be translat
ed to suit him. The English is such a
direct language that a thought literal
ly translated from lt Into the Spanish
will often give offense to the punctili
ous Castillan, so that it has become ad
visable for the exporter who seeks
trade relations with Spaniards to have
his letters translated by some one
whose native tongue is Spanish rather
than by some person who has simply
studied the language. '.■'.*>-..
Could the statesmen of a bygone
generation arise from their graves
they would surely thing a miracle had
been wrought. Before the Civil War
it was declared that America was first
of all an agricultural nation and would
always remain so. But their sons have
lived to see the products of the farm
yield second place to the products of
the factory, and today the nation
which was to their minds destined to be
the agricultural nation of the world,
has manufactures aggregating in value
fifteen billion dollars a year, and ag
ricultural products whose total value
Is eight billion. More than one-half of
the entire product of the combined
energy of our 80,000,000 people is rep
resented in the products of the fac
tories of the country. It is said that
the total productive capacity of the
people of the United States is valued at
$26,000,000,000 a year, or $306 per capita.
There are 5,000,000 wage earners en
gaged in manufacturing. They con
vert nine billion dollars' worth of, raw
and partly raw material Into fifteen
billion dollars' worth of finished
product. It will be seen from this
that their gross earning capacity is
upward of $1000 a year.
• • •
One is hardly prepared for the state
ment that in point of value of output
the slaughtering and packing industry
is the biggest in the United States, nor
for the Information that there are
more men engaged In lumber and wood
working than In any other manufac
turing industry in the country, 404,000
of them being so engaged. The manu
facture of things to eat and things to
wear is about one-third of all the
manufacturing being carried on in the
United States. And the iron and steel
industry, and the result is Just about
one-half of the total manufacturing
output. " V : _, , _ .v..
America now stands safely at the
head of the manufacturing nations of
the world. It ls over three billion dol
lars ahead of England, both In capital
and in product. And England is as
much ahead of Germany as it is be
hind America. There has never been
any official census of Industries in any
European country such as the United
States had every ten years up to 1900
and every five years since then. Yet
the statistics have been closely gath
ered, and they show that the National
Manufacturers' association represents
as great an output of commodities as
ism as a fraud or delusion, but he met
his Waterloo and is now one of the
strongest advocates of spiritualism.
The same may be said of Lombroso,
the Italian scientist, a fierce antago
nist to splriutlalsm, now a strong be
liever. Rev, Mlnot J. Savage admits
he was antagonistic to and preached
against spiritualism until he investi
gated and found the truth. He .con
fessed that he was bigoted and ignor
ant of the subject like so many thou
sands of others are who decry spirit
ualism without Investigating. Mr.
Sprading referred to an article by Rau
pert Hughes appearing in Pearson
Magazine September, 1908. to February,
1909, entitled "Seeing Things," as re
liable evidence to save the public from
the fraud of /spiritualism.. See what
Mr. Herward Carrington says in an
article appearing in the May number
of New Thought Magazine entitled
"Seeing Things Awry": •■
"It seems incredible that any first
class magazine should publish a tirade,
of this character, especially as it is
wholly without foundation, but is act
ually entirely contrary to every fact
In the case. The men investigating
Eusapia Paladlno have not in then
work sacrificed any of the standards of
evidence, but have throughout insisted
upon exact scientific methods being
employed. In other words they have
prescribed the same calm, critical spirit
that they would show were they experi
menting In chemistry or biology. Ihe
tone of Mr. Hughes* criticism brandy
him a man who is at once dogmatic,
supercilious, ignorant of the evidence.'
The above refers to the tests of the
.scientists with the well known me
dium, Eusapla Paladlno. V _, KITAS>
STREETS IN SIXTH WARD ARE
v A DISGRACE TO ANY CITY
: LOS ANOELES, May 14.— [Editor
Herald]: lam glad ,to see The Her
ald taking up the cause of the Sixth
ward and showing up the incompe
tency of' our councilman <in allowing
a fertilizing plant to be established so
near the '. city limits, and this
ls not ; the, only nuisance .that
ls produced by any two other coun
tries except England.
■ At no other time in history has tho
manufacturer ever been so progres
sive as the American manufacturer of
today. It took five centuries to go
from the Spanish galleon to the Lust
tania. It required sixty years to de
velop the railroad engine up to Its
present high standard. Hut a single
decade has sufficed to evolve the auto
mobile from Its experimental stage up
to a product of the highest usefulness
and greatest efficiency. And so lt Is
in almost every branch of manufac
ture. No one century ever. gave as
much progress to the world as the past
twenty years have given.
• * •
New industries are being born so
rapidly that the laymen can scarcely
keep track of them. Who ever thought
of wrecking a whole railroad train or
setting a house on fire In order to get a
picture a decade ago*. Yet the moving
picture man came upon the scene and
those things became In order. And tho
moving picture has in turn helped to
launch another Industry. Not long
since there was a new glass factory
set up In the west. It used automatic
glass blowers When It needed moro
capital it went Into the financial dis
tricts in search of It. The financial
men were dubious. They could not un
derstand how a machine could* blow.
glass. Then the glass makers he
thought themselves to use the moving
picture man to prove It. They did so
and got their money without further
question.
American Ingenuity can produce the
world's mightiest electric engine, with
a horsepower far Into the thousands,
and It can produce the smallest motor,
weighing only twenty-seven grains.
This motor was made by a Texas man
ufacturing jeweler. The field magnets
are.of the finest sheet steel, and so
small that they can scarcely be seen.
The power Is taken off by a brush of
nearly the same invisible dimensions,
and the finest silk covered wire is used
Jn winding the armature. The motor
is driven by a tiny sliver chloride bat
tery. The jeweler wears it as a scarf
pin, and can make the little thing buzz
as busily as the biggest motor one
ever saw.
It has been well that denatured al
cohol has come upon the scene as a
cheap fuel and a motive power for
small establishmnets which have hith
erto used oil. It Is estimated that In
the past half century the "oil fields of
North America have produced enough
petroleum to fill the entire Panama
canal when completed. But the east
ern oil fields are expected to cease to
flow ln Important quantity within tho
next decade. Denatured alcohol, de
pendent not upon a stored up -supply
which can never be added to, but upon
man's power to make it, is one of the
examples of what the world may ex
pect as the great resources near ex
tinction. Concrete comes along as the
substitute for wood, and it is expected
by one school of economic thought that
no resource will ever become exhaust
ed but that man will have a working
substitute for it.
•• . •
The discovery of saccharine, one of
the most important of the coal tar de
rivatives, shows how the scientist may
stumble upon something of inestimable
value to the manufacturer. A Johns
Hopkins chemist was experimenting
with coal tar to find some new prop
erties, more with a view to assigning
them high-sounding names than with
the expectancy of discovering some
thing which would develop Into a
great industrial asset. When he went
home to dinner. he found that the
bread had a remarkably sweet taste.
His landlady declared she had not put
sugar into it, and the other boarders
did not discover anything wrong with
theirs. It was finally discovered that
the sweetness was on his hands. He
hastened back to his laboratory and
examined everything ho had there.
Finally he located it, and the saccha
rine of commerce was the result. It is
so sweet that four pounds of it will
go further than a ton of cane or beet
sugar. One canner of corn was able to
save $25,000 worth of corn in a single
season through the use of saccharine.
It requires only one-fourth of a grain
to sweeten a can of corn, and the re
sult Is that a man never eats more
than a sixteenth of a grain of It at
one time. It is widely used ln sweeting
chewing tobacco and other things to
which it is necessary to impart a last
ing flavor of sweetness. It is also used
as a substitute for sugar In the treat
ment of gout and kindred ailments.
, . .
Every day new things are being In
vented and manufactured. Thirty
years ago the number of articles made
in the United States was compara
tively small, and there were - fewer
manufacturers in the whole country
than there are ln a half-dozen leading
states today. Now there are 60,000 dif
ferent articles listed In the manufac
turers' red book, and they are made
by 600,000 manufacturers. The first
red book, published in 1885, weighed
three ounces. The current volume
weighs thirteen pounds.
(Copyright, 1909, by Frederic J. Haskin.)
Tomorrow— Production.
menaces the Sixth ward by any
means, but assuming that the greater
part of our honorable councilman's
time ls occupied in looking after the
Interests of a certain corporation and
drawing his salary we will ask him to
abate but one nuisance at a time.
After he has wiped tho fertilizer
plant out of existence, then let him
report to the council the condition of
some of the streets of the Sixth ward.
For instance, let him examine Comp
ton avenue, from I Twentieth street
south to about Thirty-eighth street,
and report to the council the exact
condition of said avenue and let him
explain why some parts of said ave
nue ; are made a common dumping
ground i for nearly all kinds of refuse
to lie there and befoul the air.
We are citizens and taxpayers and
as such are entitled to a part of the
tax being spent in our own wards. We
have waited long and patiently, and If
something Is not done before long we
propose to know the reason why, as
some of our streets are a disgrace to
any city. A TAXPAYER.
RECALLS CHARACTER WHO
WAS POSSESSED OF DEVILS
POJiONA, May 9.—[Editor Herald]:
In today's Letter Box J. T. Irvine says:
"These devils of which persons were
said to*- possessed point clearly to
physical and mental disorders."
In Matthew 8:28, etc., we read of two
men .In the country of Gergesenes
(Mark and Luke say one man and in
the country of Gardarenes) possessed
with devils, who cried i out, Baying
"What have.we to do with thee, Jesus,
thou son of God? Art thou come hith
er to torment us before the time?" And
there was i a good way off a herd > of.
swine feeding. So the devils besought
him, saying "If thou cast us out, suffer
us to go away fnto the herd of swine,"
and he then said to them, "Go." 'And
when they were come out they went
into the herd of swine.
These devils are spoken of as real en
titles, begging that they I shall not Ibe
sent to ■ torment, >or hell, „ before | the
time.' How docs Mr. Irvine explain the
above? ...*•. /.v' ."•,'.* ■■'./•. C. U. WHITE.