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8 Municipal Affairs HARBOR BOARD FAVORS COMPANY'S PLEA TO U.S. Commissioners Indorse Lumber Concern's Demand for Reimbursement Fulfillment of pledges made by the consolidation commission, and because the course they pursued appeared to be only common honesty, was the rea son the harbor commissioners gave the city council yesterday for indorsing the demand of the Consolidated Lum ber company that the United States government reimburse it for dredging a channel in the harbor to the north east of the turning basin. The lumber company wants the gov ernment to repay about $72,000 that It expended in dredging this channel, and asked the board of public works and the harbor commission to indorse the demand. The board of public •works refused to take action because it considered that it did not have Jurisdiction over the matter, but the harbor commission Indorsed it con ditionally. The harbor commission refused to Indorse the amount of the bill, but did recommend that the government repay the lumber company the amount that the government would have had to pay to do the same work. The harbor commission filed a lengthy document with the council, giving a digest of all the evidence in the case that had Induced It to take the action It did, but this was not read. Instead, Stoddard Jess, presi dent of the commission; T. E. Gibbon and M. H. Newmark, the other mem bers, explained in detail. The commisioners told the council that the work done by the Consoli dated Lumber company was the same work the government would have had to do later in following the plans adopted for the improvement of the harbor, and that the Improvement was two years ahead of what could reason ably be expected if it had been neces •ary for the government to act. This privately dredged channel has greatly increased the lumber business at the port, for not only has it improved the facilities of the Consolidated Lumber company, but has also brought the Pacific Redwood Lumber company, the largflest concern of its kind in the ■world. The matter was referred to the pub lic welfare committee for further in vestigation and recommendation. CITY SUSTAINS PROTEST AGAINST ALAMEDA DRAIN Council's Action Blow to District Assessment Idea By a vote of 6 to 8 the council yes terday wated to sustain the protest against the Alameda street storm drain. Those who voted to sustain were Andrews, Betkouski, Washburn, Whiffen, Williams and Lusk. Those who opposed It were Gregory, O'Brien and Stewart. If this action Is to be taken as a precedent It probably means that no more efforts will be made to construct storm drains by district assessment, but that they will be built either by bond money or general taxation, or not at all. , This storm drain has been denied twice, once by a former council. The engineer and the board of public works have been trying hard to establish storm drains throughout the city, but have gone against stone walls in the council, because of the vigorous pro tests made by property owners who are assessed to pay the cost. The protesting property owners ■want Alameda street paved so the surface will take care of the drain age. W. M. Humphreys, Inspector of public works, tried to explain to the protestants and the council that the additional cost for culverts and the difference In the surface construction when streets are paved for surface drainage would very nearly Increase the assessment for the paving to the amount of the assessment for the atorm drain. WILL INSPECT TUGS CITY MAY USE AS FIRE BOATS Tht\ harbor committee of the coun cil will take a trip to San Pedro this week to inspect the tugs Warrior and Falcon, which the city proposes to use as fire boats. An appropriation was made in the budget for the lease of these tugs, and the fire commission yesterday sent a communication to the council asking that the matter be hurried, as the shipping in the harbor needed protection. The Falcon has al ready boen equipped and is ready for use. Chief of Police Galloway tried to Induce the police commission Monday night to ask the council for a motor patrol boat at San Pedro, but as this Item had been Included in the police department estimate and cut out by the budget committee, the commission refused to grant the chiefs request and filed his communication. COUNCIL BURIES SIXTH AND BEAUDRY AGITATION The Sixth and Beaudry agitation Is burled in the files of the council, for that body yesterday unanimously voted to deny the application for an excep tion from «the residence district of a lot at Sixth and Beaudry on which the Davis-Standard Bread company has its bakery. The legislation committee, which had considered tha matter, assured protest ing property owners Monday that the request for the exception would be de nied, but the protestants were not en tirely satisfied and filled the lobby of the council chamber yesterday morn- Ing. When final action was taken they left the lobby In a happier frame of mind than they have been for several weeks. TUNNELS UNDER STREETS DISCOURAGED BY COUNCIL Tunnel building In the streets was discouraged yesterday when the coun cil refused to grant a franchise for a tunnel to connect the W. P. Story building at Sixth and Broadway and the Los Angeles Trust building at Sixth and Spring. The application for the franchise was denied because so many of the streets fire already honeycombed with tunnels that may some day be an ob stacle to public Improvements. MIDNIGHT MARKS LAST HOUR FOR REGISTRATION Tonight at midnight I* the laat chance for registration, and the city clerk's .of fice will be open until that hour for the persons who want to vote. l'» --lesa a citizen Is registered be cannot vote at the coming elections. October 13 la the last date for transfers. After dial the great register will close for the fall flections. DECLARE COPP BUILDING ON 1 FOOT OF CITY PROPERTY Council Values 12 Inches Broad way Frontage at $5000 Is the Copp building on $5000 worth of city land? This is the question the council yesterday asked the city ab stractor, the city engineer and the city attorney to decide. If it is the council may compromise matters by using the south wall of the Copp building as a party wall for the new city hall an nex, unless it is determined that' the south wall is a party wall as it stands. It is declared that the south side of the Copp building, which adjoins the city hall park, is over the city's line one foot, and this foot of Broadway frontage Is valued at $5000. C. H. Mc- Farland, lessee of the Copp building, denies that the city has any interest in the land on which his building stands, or that the wall is a party wall, but he has offered to pay $50 a month for light from the city's side of the building:. When the annex is constructed a light well will be built on the north side that will light the Copp building as well as the annex, and Mr. McFar land has offered to pay $50 a month for this light well. He has offered to pay the same amount if the lot is left va cant, so that he may have light on the south side of his building. Councilman Washburn expressed op position yesterday to the city expend ing $50,000 or $20,000 for the construc tion of this city hall annex. He said that It would be only a few years until the city would have a suitable munici pal building on the site of the Temple block, and he believed if the money were spent on the annex it would be wasted. COUNCIL REFUSES TO PAY FOR SCHOOL STREET WORK No more city money Is to be expended for street Improvements in front of school buildings. The city council adopted this policy yesterday when It refused to appropriate $400 to pay an assessment on school property. "The board of education asked for $50,000 in the last budget to pay for these street Improvements," said W. J. Washburn, chairman of the finance committee," but he budget committee considered this was an expense that properly belonged to the school de partment and allowed nothing. Either the board of education will have to pay these assessments out of its own money or the contractors will have to figure that they will receive nothing for the work done In front of the schools." The board of education gave the previous council to understand that it did not Intend to pay such assessments, and the city attorney advised the council that these assessments could not become a lien against school property. Unless the board of education re verses Its policy, contractors will have to figure that they will receive noth ing for the improvement in front of schools. That means they will add that much to the price of the Job, and the other property owners who are not exempt from paying these assessments will have to pay the school share also. COLEGROVE PLANS THREE MILES OF NEW ASPHALT One of the most important street improvements that have been projected since the paving of Sunset boulevard is being instituted In Colegrove. The Colegrove board of trade is circulating a petition for the asphalt paving of Santa Monica boulevard from Sanborn junction to Seward street, a distance of more than three miles, and that will carry an asphalt surface almost to Sherman. When the pavement Is completed it Is expected Santa Monica boulevard will be the highway from Los Angeles to Snnta Monica, for it cuts off several miles of the distance now traveled around through Hollywood. The circulators of the petition are meeting with success wherever they present the petition, for the property owners who must pay for the improve ment are enthusiastic over the matter. CARS STOP ON NEAR CORNERS WITHOUT A LAW A popular delusion was dispelled yes terday by Emmett Wilson, deputy city attorney, when he told the council that there is no ordinance in effect requiring the street cars to stop on the near side •f the crossing. "The council several year 3 ago did propose such an ordinance," said Mr. Wilson, "but before it could be passed the street car officials declared they were willing to comply with the sug gestion without the necessity of an ordinance." The matter was brought up when the fire commission asked for an amend- ment to the supposed ordinance that would permit the cars at Fifth and Maple streets to stop at some point where they would not interfere with the new engine house at Fifth and Maple. ASK BIDS FOR COMFORT STATION IN CENTRAL PARK Bids will bo asked for supplying ar tificial stonework, fountains and the proposed comfort station in Central park. The council yesterday referred the matter to the supply committee when the park board asked that bids be secured. There is some question as to the authority of the council to advertise and receive bids for this construction work, especially the comfort station, as the charter provides that contracts for all publio work shall be made by the board of public works. The sup ply committee will go over the plans and specifications and report to the council, and the council probably will authorize the board to make the neces sary contracts. CITY BARS LUNCH WAGONS Lunch wagons that reek with onions and grease are legislated out of the business district by an ordinance passed by the council yesterday, "ho district in which they are prohibited Is Hill to Main, between Temple; and Tenth and portions of Los Angeles and San l'edro streets. LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1910. News of the Courts LOVE FOR TOTS SENDS MAN TO PENITENTIARY Bad Check Passer Claims to Be German Baron and Sol dier of Fortune A penitentiary sentence, resulting from his love for children, was given yesterday to Adolphus Ethelbert yon Dankberg, who declares that he Is a German count and has served in seven wars under four different flags. Dankberg, who heretofore has kept his identity a secret because he de sired to keep from shame a family of the German nobility which after years of residence in castles upon the River Rhine has made its home, at Frankfort on-the-Matn, has declared himself to be a German nobleman. Although his assertions are doubted by some authorities, his appearance certainly gives a semblance of truthful ness to his words. His mustache as cends heavenward, a la hirsute adorn ments of the upper lip of Kaiser Wil helm; his eyes are of the corn-flower blue, and his accent Is German to the last degree. He was arrested under the quiet name of A. E. Dankberg on the charge of issuing a check when he had no funds in the bank, and he never denied It, but asked for probation. Finally he did admit that his troubles were caused by his fondness for chil dren, his liking for the little ones In general being increased by his separa tion from his wife and two tiny daugh ters in Germany and his resultant "lonesome heart." In the latter part of last June he formed the acquaintance of Virginia, 7 years old, and Dorothy and John, twins, 6 years old, the children of Mr. and Mrs. William Brizzalari of 627 South Grand avenue, the keepers of a rooming house. He confessed his lik ing for children and asked the mother to permit him to play with them, to give them candy and to take them to moving picture shows. ADMITS CHECK BAD Because he was strange, Dankberg alleges, the mother feared him, and to make the love of the children for him stronger, "because of his desire to In crease the happiness of all children," he decided to purchase Jewelry for them. He went to the establishment of Max Kllch July 8 and bought two tiny bracelets, one each for the two little girls, and a pair of tiny cuff buttons for the little boy of the Brizzalaris. He gave a check on the Southern Trust company for $10 and received $4 change. He admitted he had no money in the bank at the time, but declared he was expecting enough to cover the instru ment. He gave the Jewelry to the children, and shortly after the presenta tion was led to the police court, where he was held to answer to the superior court. Yesterday he told the story of his own unhappiness, of th&^wife, of the two little daughters In Germany, for whose reunion with himself he continu ally yearned,' and he .even confessed that he had issued another check for $15 for a revolver at Hoegee's store, also under the belief that he would have money in the bank to cover his paper. But despite his pitiful plea he was sentenced by Judge Davis of the crim inal department of the superior court to serve eighteen months In the peni tentiary at San Quentln. Dankberg os a dashing man, appear ing only about 35 years old, but con fessing to 59, and declares that he has served with honor In seven wars, under the flags of Germany, France, Portugal and England, winning the title of ma jor on his merits and not because of his forbears. IMPROVEMENT COMPANY BRINGS SUIT FOR $80,000 In the effort to recover more than $80,000, the Huntingdon Park Improve ment company yesterday filed two suits in the superior court. The first suit is to obtain $70,000, or the return of stock valued at that amount, and it Is directed against John S. Gortner, Robert N. Shaw, the Title Insurance and Trust company, as the administrator of the estate of Harry C. Ackerly, who died July 3, 1909, and the Park Land company. The plaintiff Rlleges that Gortner, Shaw and Ackerly, while directors of that company, conspired to influence it to issue 700 shares of common stock, valued at $100 each, purported to be necessary as part of the consideration to be paid by the plaintiff company for realty owned by the Park Land company. The plaintiff asserts that the alleged necessity of issuing the stock for the purpose named as nothing but fraud, and that the Park Land company never received the stock, but that it was really converted by Gortner, Shaw and Ackerly to their own uses. It is asserted by the plaintiff that It only recently learned of the fraud, and now it is suing Gortner, Shaw and the trust concern, as the administrator of the estate of Ackerly, for the return of the stock or Its equivalent in money. The other suit is directed against the same defendants, with the excep tion of the Park Land company. In It the plaintiff asserts that Qort ner, Shaw and Ackerly, who consti tuted the Ackerly Sales company, caused to be spread upon the minutes of the plaintiff corporation an agree ment between the Bales company and the improvement concern by which the latter was to give the former a commission of 12V4 per cent of the gross sales of lots made by It for the plaintiff. The latter also was to pay 80 per cent of the advertising ex penses. It is asserted that the agreement was repudiated by the stockholders, but that, nevertheless, the trio ob tained $15,738.83, declared to be due them as commissions. The plaintiff avers that its total sales aggregated $60,000, upon which it realized $3000. It wants judgment against the defendants for the differ eence between $15,738.83 and $3000, or $12,738.83, on the ground that 5 per cent was a reasonable commission for tho Ackerly Sales company to be granted. DIVORCE SUITS FILED Seven suits for divorce were filed yesterday In the superior court. They were the actions of Lorena Lutge against Harry M. Lutge, Mary L. Rablnson against J. Robinson, Arlle Benaon against C. L., Benson. Kate Murphy against Silas R. Murphy, Stella E. Thackston agatnst Thomas C. Thackston, Carrie Hayner against Eugene Hayner, and Grant Sherwin against Katherine Sherwio I R. R. FIGHTS PAYMENT OF LONG BEACH ASSESSMENT The San Pedro, Los Angeles A Salt Lake Railroad company yesterday filed In the superior court a suit for an Injunction against H. L. Pllsbury, city tax and license collector of Long Beach. The plaintiff alleges that the city council of Long Beach, in order to construct a parapet along certain sec tions of that municipality's sea front, levied an assessment against the rail- road. The corporation asserts that the par apet will do it absolutely no pood and that it results in no benefit whatever to its right of .way. It therefore asks the court to grant it a temporary injunction, pending a suit which will settle whether the re straining order shall be permanent, preventing the city tax and license collector from making good his threat of selling the right of way for the as sessment that the city has levied. BURGLAR PLEADS GUILTY; SENTENCE DATE IS SET An information charging George R. Freeman with burglary by entering the home of William B. Corwin August 21 with the Intention of stealing was filed yesterday in Judge Davis' de partment of the superior court. Free man pleaded guilty and will be sen tenced September 30. W. H. Jacobs, fry an Information filed in the same tribunal, was accused of a felony. He will be arraigned later. JUDGE DAVIS TO TAKE REST Judge Davis of the criminal depart ment of the superior court next week will begin a vacation of three weeks. Judge Willis is expected to' be home by that time to take charge of the criminal work of the courts. BEEK TO ADOPT BOY August J. and Anna M. Fuehr yes terday filed in the superior court a petition to adopt as their own child Joseph Aloyslus Bottarlnl, 20 months old. WANT TO MORTGAGE REALTY The Slavonian American Benevolent society of Los Angeles yesterday filed In the superior court a request for permission to mortgage certain of its property for $3500. NEW INCORPORATIONS Earle Institute Soap company—Mac Turney Coger, Charming H. Cook and I. R. Rubin, directors; capital stock, $10,000; subscribed, $50. Angelus Sanitary Can company—H. L. and P. H. Guenther. F. F. and T. J. Spencer and E. A. Miller, directors; capital Btock, $60,000; subscribed, $5. ALVARADO STREET MADE BOULEVARD BY COUNCIL The ordinance which makes Alvara do street from Seventh to Hoover a boulevard and prohibits street car tracks, pipe lines, heavy teaming and other features disagreeable to a resi dence street was passed by the city council yesterday. Alvarad6 street has twice been im proved at great expense to the prop erty owners, but in some places it has been cut Into such deep ruts that heavy traffic has used other streets. Now It is to be paved with asphalt, and as soon as the asphalt surface is put on the heavy traffic would return, unless prevented by the boulevard ordinance. It was also proposed to use Alvara do street for a part of the proposed crosstown car line and an application for a franchise for this purpose Is now before the board of public utilities. But the boulevard ordinance will pre vent the car line on this street and a franchise probably will be asked, eith er In Vermont or Western avenues. MAILS LETTER IN FIRE BOX SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.—Four fire engines were called out today by a young woman from Modesto, who was attempting to mall a letter, in an alarm box on a street corner. She was placed under arrest, but mi re leased on explaining the situation. V This New 1911 j CS% *^|Ml^^W^fcß. 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The Coats are 30 to 34 ltn&h> ssotes of new ran jyiercnun >^Vv all lined with all- s. ilk satin some disc Just Received \ V $\ witn Skinner's satin and Peau de ( Just a hint of some of the new things that ' dmtfi^tof-k Cjc^\ • *v '''-'"'''"'V: fl« - have just been unpacked to come forward. W®SsjM^ ,£*£& '"^ tckT^fS 1 ffi«K^^^L^': P'6ll*6^ 'font and back; also full 54-in. Seal Plush Cute little animal WLfflMtilr^ pleats and modified hobble. Coats for women. Muffs for the chil- |gj jf' We doubt if you will be able to Beauties at $25 00 dren- Teddy Bear, *'. J%L "j . find an assortment on the coast to .Beauties at *o.uu. Chantecler, and &^4 xy?L compare with these at the 1 hey re lined with Woolly Dog an Jfm\ny^k V prices mentioned. Skinner's satin. ma Is fashioned ■ MM&Mry^ NewLonaCoatS $* ft Caracul Coats, !*£ Ttgl^M^mW -a Fall Feature.. 2 0 S4-in at $22.50. 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