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ONE SLAIN, THREE
OTHERS HELD UP
Man Dies at Receiving Hospital
After Footpad's Sandbag
Fractures Skull
HIGHWAYMAN WELL DRESSED
Two Victims Describe Thief as
Being Suave and Carrying
Blue Revolver
Highwaymen were active in this city
late Saturday night and early Sunday
morning, Oscar Kappel, aged 25 years,
died at the receiving hospital yester
day from wounds believed to have been
, > inflicted with a sandbag by a holdup
man. Two other men reported being
held up and robbed of their money by
a well dressed man carrying a blue re-
W, volver. Another man engaged In a
desperate battle with an alleged thief
in which he was wounded, but his al
leged assailant was captured after a
chase by a patrolman.
Rappel, tho man who died yesterday,
staggered into a drug store at 409
South Main street early Sunday morn
ing with blood streaming down his face
and fell to the floor with the exclama
tion that he had been knocked down
and robbed. Persons in the store be
lieved that he was suffering from a
fit and his story was at first supposed
to be ravings. Later, however, he gave
I a detailed story, saying that lie had
been hit on tjie head by a highway
man in tho vicinity of Fourth and Main
streets. On the arrival of the ambu
lance to take him to the receiving hos
pital he became delirious and fought
the policemen fiercely in an effort to
escape. At the hospital he lapsed Into
unconsciousness, from which he never
recovered. He died at 2 o'clock yester
day morning.
AUTOPSY BEARS OUT STORY
An autopsy made by Dr. George "W.
Campbell yesterday seems to bear out
the man's story that be was the victim
of a brutal assault by a footpad. Dr.
Campbell found that the man's skull
had been fractured and that the injury
was apparently done either by a sand
bag or a butt of a revolver. An in
vestigation by the police also revealed
the fact that the man had collected a
week's wages early in the evening and
that only 25 cents remained in his
pockets when he staggered into the
drug store. The condition of his
clothing also bore out the theory that
he had been attacked and robbed.
The remains were identified by Frank
E. Wilder of 816 West Ninth street,
who said Rappel was an employe in
Hamburger's cafe. Detectives have
been detailed on the case, but no ar
rests have been made. %
Robert ' Shipley, 37 years old, em
ployed in a grading camp at the end of
West Forty-eighth street, was treated
at the receiving hospital yesterday for
a knife cut across his head and neck,
said by the police to have been received
at the hands of a highwayman early
yesterday morning. Pedro Esclarria, a
Mexican, arrested in the vicinity, is
held at police headquarters charged
with the crime. •
T FOOTPAD CARRIES BLUB GUN
O. BJirnwood, 1223 East Twenty
seventh "Street, reported to:the police
yesterday that he was held up Satur
day night In the Boyle Heights' dis
trict by a • highwayman with a blue
gun. Burnwood was halted under an
arc light by a man who covered him
with a revolver and relieved him of
$25.15. He described the man as young,
smooth shaven and smiling. He was
fashionably dressed, Burnwood said.
E. Nichols, 870 Lookout drive, re
ported to the police yesterday that he
" was held up and robbed at the point of
nin on Bernardo street shortly after
he had alighted from a Garvanza car.
The highwayman took $50 from him
and disappeared in the darkness.
Nichols described his assailant as be
ing a young man, fashionably dressed
and carrying a blue revolver.
j ,D. Hall, proprietor of an apart
ment house at 1223 South Main street,
reported to the police yesterday that a
thief had entered his room and taken
$40. ...
NEW CARS AND ENGINES
FOR SANTA FE TOURISTS
The Santa Fe railroad has pur
chased r w, modern type tourist cars
valued c $1,000,000 for the accommo
datior of the winter tourist traffic
which officials of the road believe Is
coming to Southern California during
the present season. The new cars
will be delivered and placed in op
eration on all lines west of Chicago
November B.
The same road has also placed an
' order with the Baldwin Locomotive
I works for forty Mallet type Baldwin
engines, to be delivered within a few
i weeks, and the new cars and motive
power promise to provide a new era
in transcontinental tourist service.
The new cars are of the most mod
ern type, being electrically lighted
throughout, having sixteen sections,
men's smoking room and women's
boudoir. They are built on a Bteel
base and have the standard six-wheel
truck, features which make them as
comfortable and, in several respects,
superior, to many of the standard
Pullman cars now in service.
The now engines ordered, the Mal
let type, are in reality two locomotives
in one, and are valued at more than
$70,000 each. The order first placed
was for forty engines, and the work
on them is being rushed as rapidly as
possible, as the Santa Fe was recent
ly in trouble securing enough engines
to haul the crowds of colonists to Cal
ifornia, and a recurrence of such a
state of affairs is to be avoided if pos
sible.
The new cars were built with a view
of being able to stand the rapid trip
from Chicago to Los Angeles, as made
by the California limited In sixty
eight hours, without endangering the
lives of passengers.
INDIAN WOMAN ACCUSES
JAPANESE OF USING KNIFE
Because she objected to his smoking:
cigarettes during his meal, K. Fuky
ama, a Japanese living at 119% East
First street, is alleged to have drawn
a knife and slashed Mrs. Anita Gon
zales, an Indian woman. The injured
woman was removed to the receiving
hospital in a serious conidtion and was
later taken to the county hospital. The
police have been unable to arrest the
Japanese whom she accuses of the
crime. ]
Helen Lackaye, Leading Lady in
'Mary Jane's Pa' at the Majestic
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'MARY JANE'S PA' GIVES
FIGMAN SUBTILE ROLE
Hero of Play at Majestic Proves
Vagabond, but One Much
Beloved
If a strict moralist or social econo
mist were to try to find a moral In
Mary Jane's Pa," as played by Max
Figman and his company at the Ma
jestic theater this week, he probably
would find it difficult. All of which
simply goes to show what a mess you
get into If you try to find a moral In
a play just because it happens to be
an interesting bit of entertainment. For
entertaining, "Mary ane's Pa" certain
ly is. He is a vagabond, but a beloved
one. He is like the rolling stone which
failed to accumulate any moss, but
which acquired "a devil of a polish."
The story is, briefly, this: Hiram Per
kins, who has been imbued with the
wanderlust and has been away from
his home and family for ten years, re
turns unexpectedly, and finds that his
wife has taken his printing business
and made a success of it, also running
a newspaper. He is placed upon pro
bation by Mrs. Perkins, and allowed
to stay in her home under an as
sumed nam«, as cook. There Is a po
litical fight on, and Mrs. Perkins is
very friendly with one of the candi
dates, Rome Preston, who believes her,
as she had believed herself, to be a
widow. In supporting Preston's cam
paign, Mrs. Perkins deals* harshly
in her paper with the village capital
ist, and is about to expose his past
in a special issue of her paper. The
capitalist threatens to turn the village
against her by slurring remarks about
the unknown man who is living in her
house. Preston urges Mrs. Perkins
not to publish the story, but she in
sists, and is assisted by her husband,
the cook. The exposure threatened by
the capitalist is precipitated, and met
by Mrs. Perkins with the declaration
that the cook is her husband, where
upon the family is reunited.
Max Figman brings to the interpre
tation of the leading role all that de
lightful aplomb which always char
acterizes his work. His principal aide
is Miss Helen Lackaye, who adds a
touch of dignity to the play and gives
it a realistic effec that otherwise would
be lacking. The company as a whole
is excellent, and the scenic settings of
the better sort which Figman, a past
master In stagecraft, always Insists
upon.
DREADNAUGHT DELAWARE
LEADS IN GUN PRACTICE
New Ship Wins Proficiency Mark
Over 16 of Atlantic Fleet
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—One of
Uncle Sam's newest dreadnaughts, the
Delaware, led the sixteen battleships
of the Atlantic fleet in gunnery effi
ciency during the annual battle prac
tice off the Virginia coast last Sep
tember.
The trophy winner last year, the
Vermont, is third in the standing this
year.
The Delaware's sister ship, the North
Dakota, finished sixth, which is con
sidered by naval officials as a splendid
record for a ship that had met with
a serious accident just prior to the
practice.
Lieutenant Commander L>. E. Over
street seems entitled to the palm
among the personnel of the fleet. He
was ordnance ofliecr on the Delaware
during the recent practice and served
in a similar capacity on the Vermont
when she won the trophy last year.
BODY OF MRS. SLINGERLAND
WILL BE BURIED TODAY
Funeral services will be held over
the body of Mrs. Helen Slingerland
this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the
Connell undertaking parlors. Rev. Ba
ker P. Lee will officiate and burial will
be in Rosedale cemetery, the inter
ment to be private. Mra. Slingerlaud
resided with her daughter, Mrs. C. N.
WUlets, 17 West Fifty-third street.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, L9lO.
STUBBS AIDS MISSOURI
PROHIBITIONISTS' FIGHT
Kansas Governor Goes Over the
Line to Answer Argu
ments of 'Wets'
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 30.—Gov
ernor W. R. Stubbs of Kansas ad
dressed a mass meeting at Conven
tion hall this afternoon in behalf of
tho proposed state-wide prohibition
amendment for Missouri, which will
be voted on at the November election.
The announced purpose of the gov
ernor's speech was to answer the ar
guments issued by the anti-prohibition
leaders, that prohibition had injured
Kansas and that the law was not en
forced in that state.
"If any brewer or distiller," declared
Governor Stubbs, "can show me an
open saloon or open joint in Kansas
I will close It at once or resign."
The speaker read letters from mayors
and judges in various parts of Kan
sas to prove that the prohibitory law
is effective and that since it has been
rigidly enforced bank deposits have in
creased!" crime has decreased, real
estate has risen in value and general
business conditions have improved.
CIGAR AND CIGARETTE
IMPORTS ARE DOUBLED
This Year Shows Great Gain Over
1909-How Fifty Arti
cles Fare
[Special to The Herald]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—The usual
statement showing the fifty principal
articles imported during the month
and accumulated months of the year,
in comparison with like periods of the
preceding year, has Just been complet
ed by the bureau of statistics of the
department of commerce and labor.
The statement covering the imports
of September and the nine months
ending with September, 1909 and 1910,
respectively, is as follows:
Principal articles Imported—
1909. 1310. 1909. 1910.
Millions of dollars.
Sugar 8.3 6.3 80.7 103.1
India rubber, crude 7.5 6.8 50.6 78.9
Hides and skins 9.C 5.0 73.6 70.3
Coffee, raw 6.5 6.8 57.4 46.3
SUk, raw 6.9 6.4 64.1 4KB
Wool, raw 3.4 1.1 44.5 82.4
Diamonds 4.3 2.7 31.1 27.1
Cotton laces 2.8 2.7 U.l 27.1
Tin In bars, etc 2.8 2.3 21.0 25.4
Copper in pigs, etc 1.7 2.9 21.2 22.2
Fibers, unmanufactured .. 1.8 1.7 23.4 22.1
Tobacco leaf 2.2 1.3 19.3 19.2
Burlaps 1.8 1.5 16.0 16.7
Linens 1.8 1.5 16.9 14.8
Fur skins, undressed 1.0 1.4 9.9 13.8
Boards and planks 2.4 2.0 12.3 12.8
Soda, nitrate of 8 .7 9.0 12.1
Cotton, raw 9 .7 11.6 11.5
Tea 17 2.4 12.3 11.5
Wool cloths, dress goods.. 1.2 .9 10.8 11.3
Bananas 1.0 1.2 9.9 9.8
Art works 2.2 1.4 6.5 9.S
Wood pulp 1.0 1.1 7.3 9.5
Cocoa, crude 4 .5 10.9 9.3
Paper, manufacture* 0f... .9 1.0 9.4 9.2
Furs, dr«ased 1.0 .9 8.3 7.3
Silk dress goods S .9 8.2 7.3
Chlnaware, decorated 1.0 1.0 6.7 7.0
Machinery 7 .6 4.8 6.4
Hats, straw, and materials .5 .6 4.2 6.2
Gloves of kid and leather .8 1.1 6.1 6.2
Iron ore 5 .6 3.0 6.0
Copper ore 4 .5 8.2 G.St
| Cotton cloths <■ .6 5.2 5.9
' Cheese 5 .8 4.3 5.3
Toys 1.1 11 4.4 8.3
Feathers, crude, eto 2 .2 46 6.2
Pulp wuod 7 .6 4.6 6.1
Pig iron 4 .5 3.3 4.S
Cotton knit goods 5 .3 6.1 4.5
Olive oil 3 .4 4.0 4.4
Books 5 .5 4.6 4.4
Coal-tar colors 4 .4 4.9 4.8
Cigars, cigarettes, eto 3 .4 2.7 4.3
Coal, bituminous 4 .5 2.5 3.8
Macaroni, eto 4 .4 2.9 3.7
Tin plates 3 .3 2.7 8.1
311k laces 6 .3 4.5 8.6
Him 3 .1 3.5 B.S
Champagne 9 .1 6.8 2.4
All other articles 36.2 42.4 304.7 378.7
Total Imports 121.0 117.S 1088.1 1172.4
RIOT AT CHURCH
AFTER WEDDING
Long Beach Firemen Try to Kid
nap Member of Depart
ment Who Marries '
MARRIAGE GUESTS INTERFERE
Police Called and Arrest Two Who
Pursue Bridal Couple
in Auto
LONG BEACH, Oct. 30.—A wedding
at the First Jlaptist church last night,
at which Walter R. Riggs, a member
of the city fire department, wan the
bridegroom and Miss Mabel Kakcr the
bride, was followed by a short but
stubborn fight between other firemen,
who had been invited to act as ush
ers and who had planned a charivari,
and friends of the bridal couple. Their
chief protector wan W. H. Harover,
former patrolman and now a motor
rnan on the San Pedro line, and a dep
uty constable. None of the firemen in
the mix-up was supposed to be on
duty last night.
With the close of the encounter,
whieli started in Jhe vestibule of the
church ami continued on the pave
ment, two policemen rode on the steps
of the bridal couple's automobile to
guard Mr. and Mrs. Riggs as they,
went to board a Los Angeles ear, but
nine firemen in another automobile
followed them at such spied that Pa
trolmen Powell and Adalr, who were
on the other automobile, jumped off
and arrested them for ' exceeding the
speed limit. The men were taken to
police headquarters. The charge
against them could not be proved, but
the Incident gave the bridal couple time
to escape. It is said they went to
Wilmington, where they boarded a
ban Pedro car for Los Angeles.
The scene at the church after the
ceremony was sensational. The bridal
couple was to be separated, according
to the plans of the charivari party, and
Riggs taken away in a waiting auto.
Armed with rice and shoes, the fire
men, all but one of whom were call
men, walked up and tried to seize
Rlggs as the bridal party emerged
from the church vestibule after the
wedding.
WOMEN NEAR HYSTERICS
Grasping their plan, Rlggs and his
bride clung together and shoved back
the men. Harover, who is a big, pow
erful man, took a hand In the proceed
ings. He was a guest at the wedding.
After a few seconds of pulling and
tugging to and fro, Harover got the
bridal couple to the wall of the big
church, while he stood in front to keep
back the charivari party. His specta
cles had been knocked off in the door
and he could not see to good advan
tage, but he repulsed the men vigor
ously. Finally two of the call men
tried to seize his arms and pinion them
behind him. As Harover wrenched him
self free his left hand swung out and
happened to strike one of the men a
rather stiff jolt on the cheek.
The bride's sister, Miss Laverne Ba
ker, the bride and other women be
gan to grow hysterical, several of
them bursting Into tears. Harover by
this time had caused others of the men
who had been wedding guesta to mass
themselves around the bridal couple
and help repulse the others. When the
worrifcn began to cry he decided the
matter had gone far enough and he
showed his deputy constable star, or
dering the charivari crowd to disperse.
They saw he was in earnest and be
gan to separate. Someone had sent a
riot call to police headquarters and by
this time policemen began to arrive.
All the night patrolmen were soon on
the scene. Patrolman Remelt assist
ed in getting the bridal pair's auto
mobile brought up to the curb and
helped them into it. Patrolmen Pow
ell and Adair leaped to the steps and
the machine was started away.
PURSUE IN AUTOMOBILE
A number of the firemen leaped into
the machine in which they were to
kidnap the groom and started in hot
pursuit. The chase was fast and fu
rious, leading through the business
part of town and along Ocean avenue,
where the policemen finally arrested
the pursuers.
The police department declined to
give out a report of the matter and
minimized its importance. Miss La
verne Baker said she did not know
where the couple went after the wed
ding or where they would live upon re
turning.
"All the firemen there last night
were invited. None of them shirked his
duty to be present, as all but one of
them were call men and that one had
the evening off. The boys only wanted
to take Rlggs for a ten block ride,
then set him down at his bride's sldte
again. If there was opposition to the
separation they were to take both the
bride and groom. Nothing rough was
intended. Outsiders mixing in the af
fair caused all the trouble."
Mrs. Riggs Is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Y. Baker of Ransom
street and Loma avenue. The Rev.
George M. Lehigh, pastor of the church,
officiated. There were about 100 guests.
Miss Pauline Smith played the wed
ding march and accompaniments for
the solos.
BABY TODDLES TO BALL
GROUND; STRUCK BY BAT
Toddling with outstretched arms to
where her . 14-year old brother stood,
bat in hand, at the plate on a base
ball diamond, where he was playing a
game with his friends, two-year old
Ruth Cline, living with her parents
at 207 East Fifty-first street, was
struck with the bat as her brother
swung at a ball sent whizzing over the
plate. The blow inflicted an ugly gash
across her forehead and she fell sense
less at her brother's feet. With a cry
of horror he lifted the child tenderly
in his arms and she was taken, to the
receiving hospital. The police Burgeons
consider it unusual that her skull was
not crushed as the boy apparently
swung the bat wth full force in an
attempt to strike the ball.
Little Ruth escaped from her moth
er's home and went In search of her
brother. . In the excitement •of ' the
game the players did not notice her
approach and it was not until the blow
had been struck that the brother real
ized he had injured his sister. The tot
was removed later to her home where
she Is reported to be doing nicely.
♦« »
The publication office of the Builder
and Contractor has moved to 118 West
Third street, first floor of the Henne
| building.
100-POUND NURSE
LAYS LOW GIANT
Frail Little Woman Fights for
Life with Maniac at Re
ceiving Hospital
PULLS BEARD AND KICKS
I Don't Think I Could Do It Again,
Plucky Girl Says After
the Attack
Attacked by a raving maniac who
] had slipped his bonds in the receiving'
■ hospital yesterday, pretty Ethel I Wat
ty, a young nurse, fought a desperate
i battle for her life, lasting twenty min
utes, until Police Surgeon Kiddey and
a police reporter went to her rescue.
William Knox, the patient, Who
■ weighs more than 200 pounds, and who
had been bruugnt in earlier in tne day
as an insane suspect, leaped at the
frail little woman as she entered hla
room. .Miss Jbteatty, who weighs
scarcely 100 pounds, lought the man
off desperately, and with almost su
perhuman strength hurled him upon
' his bed, where sne attempted to bnnl
i him With the sheets, tie was just
freeing himself from her grasp wnen
the two men who had been in an
other part of the hospital rushed to
her rescue.
Within a few minutes from her ex
perience with the .nsane man a drunk
en patient with uelirium trernens ran
from his ward and attacked ncr with
his lists. Angered, she seized him by
the collar anu rushed him through the
narrow passageway that leads lo the
city jail, where the brave young wom
an placed him in tlio custody of the
jailers.
BBOKX) FBOM STKAIT-JACKET
Knox was placed in a strait-Jacket
anu later removed to the insane ward
of the county hospital. He is blind
and deaf, but of buriy irame and pos-
Sessed with great strength. For sev
eral years he has been an inmate in
the Home of the Little bisters of the
Poor at 2700 Kast First street. Sat
urday night he exhibited peculiar
symptoms, and Sunday morning be
came unmanageable and the police
were notified. When he arrived at the
receiving hospital lie was placed in
one of the wards by himselt and his
feet were manacled. In some manner
he freed himself and had risen from
his bed when the nurse entered the
room.
In speaking of her experience yes
terday Miss iieatty said tne man fair
ly sprang at her when she entered the
room. "I was taken so by sui prise
that for a moment i was limp in his
arms. When 1 felt his fingers pass
over my face and realized that he was
feeling for my throat to strangle me,
my strength came back to me, and I
fought him as hard as I could. He
tried to crusn me with his arms, anu
I thought that my bones would break
in his grip. I seized his beard and
pulled it Hard, and he released the
pressure of his arms.
KNEW IT MEANT I II !•:
"Then I slipped from his grasp, and
in a scuffle managed to trip him. In
another moment he was across the
cot, and I tried to bind him with the
sheets while calling for the surgeons.
Dr. Kiddey ran into the room with a
police reporter. If they had not ar
rived when they did 1 don't believe
that 1 could have held out much
longer. He was awfully big and
strong. I don't think I could do it
over again, only I knew at that time
that my life depended on it."
The police surgeons say that it took
them several moments with their com
bined efforts to subdue the maniac
and that he struck vicious blows at
them before thdy had laced him in a
strait-jacket.
Yesterday was not Miss Beatty's
first experience of the kind. The po
lice surgeons say that several weeks
ago she was attacked by a drunken
patient who wielded a chair as a
weapon. Miss Beatty promptly plant
ed a well placed kick on his ankle and
the patient dropped the chair and re
tired to his cot as tame as a kitten.
The young nurse lives with her
mother at the Queen apartments, 629
California street, and has been in the
receiving hospital service five months.
5000 TO DINE TOGETHER
AT FEDERATION'S FEAST
The Federation of State Societies has
begun active work on a plan to givo
in Los Angeles next February the
greatest feast in the history of the
world—an indoor banquet at which
5000 people will dine together. The
success of the federation's great ban
quet of some months ago, at which
1900 were present, was the stimulus
for the present plan. The combined
state societies in this section nov rep
resent some 200,000 people, and with
this huge membership to draw from
it is believed that the monster feast
for next February can be arranged suc
cessfully.
Preliminary plans are already under
way to make the feast notable in other
waya than size. Decorations are to be
a notable feature and music by a tre
mendous orcne&tra is among the ideas
that are being worked into shape. An
army of 1000 waiters will be engaged
to attend to the wants of the ban
queters.
A meeting of the vice presidents of
the federation was held Saturday night
in the office of Judge F. H. True, 715
Story building.
I'AVORS EXPOSITION AT BAY CITY
A resolution was adopted pledging
the support of the vice presidents in
bringing the various state societies who
are members of the federation to assist
in obtaining government recognition
of the Panama Pacific international
exposition for California in 1915 and
in having congress indorse San Fran
cisco as the exposition city.
A report was received from the com
mittee appointed to attend the meeting
of the aqueduct commission, stating
that it approved of the action of Mayor
Alexander in appointing a committee
of seven persons to investigate and
report on the water and power ques
tions confronting Los Angeles and
that the federation appoint Wiiliam D.
Gould to act on the mayor's commit
tee providing he approved.
Those attending the meeting last
night were Newton J. Skinner, pres
ident; C. H. Parsons, secretary; Will
D. Gould, Frank H. True, Kdward Win
terer, T. D. CJrlfflth, Isaac Springer,
AValter Gould Lincoln, W. L. Jones,
J. D. Radford, E. E. Overholzer and
E. R. Kennedy,
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Club News
The first meeting of the St. Cecelia
club will be held today at the home
of Miss Ida Selby, 243 Occidental
boulevard. The program will be made
up of Shakespearian selections, includ
ing the trio from Midsummer Night's
Dream, sung by Mrs. Philip Zobelin,
Miss Willy Smyzer and Miss Julie Kie
Christian. Mrs. Elmer Grey is the
president of the club and Miss Smyzer
has charge of the program, other num
bers of which will be given by Mrs.
Harry Baxter, Mrs. Roy Kellogg, Miss
Ethel Parker and Mrs. John P. Thayer.
Florence Stone Ferris will be the guest
of the club and will give the passion
scene from Romeo and- Juliet.
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The statistical report of the Los An
geles Humane society (for children)
for September shows that there were
74 cases reported, involving 153 chil
dren. There were 173 calls made on
new cases and 76 on old cases. This
does not Include the work done by the
night officer who went on duty Sep
tember 1. During the month between
the hours of 9 and 12 he took 35 small
boys oft* of the streets and took them
home to their parents with the warn
ing that were they allowed to spend
their evenings on the streets in future
the parents would be held responsible.
Two girls who were starting on a joy
ride shortly after midnight were taken
home instead. The different dance
halls, moving picture shows, etc., in
the city have all been visited and are
under surveillance.
There were 9 children placed in pri
vate homes and-11 in institutions dur
ing the month, 3 of these being sent to
the home for feeble-minded at Eldridge.
Two children were taken through the
juvenile court because of cruelty on
the part of their stepmother, which
was established, and they were placed
in homes where the father will pay
for their • board.
The condition of the homes show
that of the parents " 4 were divorced,
65 living, 18 separated, mother dead, 9;
father dead, 16.
Races involved — 32, Mex
ican 9, colored 1, German 5, Italian 1,
Norwegian 1, Swedish 2, Israelite 3,
Spanish-American 1, Roumanian 1,
Polish 1, Portuguese 2, Armenian 1,
Irish 2, Spanish 1. not known 12.
Religion— Protestant 22, Catholic 19,
Hebrew 4, not known 33, none 13.
The work of the society is increas
ing so steadily that the office in the
O. T. Johnson building, which has been
the home of the society for so many
years, is no longer adequate, and more
commodious quarters had to be se
cured. To do this and not increase ex
penses has been a puzzle, but the so
ciety is congratulating itself on se
curing rooms in the Jones building,
175 North Spring street, where, be
cause of increased space, less expense,
proximity to the court house and As
sociated Charities, the work can be
carried on more expedltiously. It is
with regret that the former office is
abandoned, and the society feels under
great obligations to Mr. Johnson, whose
generous monthly donations have ren
dered it possible to remain in such a
central location so long.
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Mrs. Edward Winterer of Holly
will have the program for the Holly
wood Woman's club November 9. This
has been announced to take place in
the bungalow, but as the speaker has
some very handsome stereopticon views
showing the picturesque scenes of
Alaska, through which she traveled,
the meeting will be held In Toberman
hall Instead.
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Charles Farwell Edson will be the
soloist at the Hollywood Woman's
club Wednesday afternoon at Tober
i man hall. Mr. Edaon will £1114; his
"Song of Life," which includes these
numbers:
"Annie Laurie" (Old Scotch), "At Slmrolo
Tank" (Laurence Hope), "Over the Rush of
the River" (Edson), "Gold la the Sun," "For
You" (Stanton), "Sweetheart," "A Little
Way," "Miss Lindy." "Alas, Alas, I've Lost
My Heart" (Meyer-Helmund), "Mother Mine"
(Kipling), "Tailor and Crow" (Robin Hood),
"Chrismus Morn" (Stanton), "Such a Little
Feller" (Stanton), "Men Should Be Judged"
(Laurence Hope), "I'se a Methodist Bred"
(folk-song), "Prayer of the Bound" (Ethel
Griffith).
The hostesses for the afternoon will
be Mrs. L. G. Somers, Mrs. E. ('.
Hampton, Miss Teresa Miller and Miss
Mabel James.
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The Matinee Muslcale club will give
a program of Russian music this week
at the usual Thursday meeting. R. W.
Heffelfinger will give a paper on this
subject and the musical selections will
be representative of these composers.
Miss Emily Peterson, Miss Anna
Choate, and Mrs. J. H. High will be
hostesses for the afternoon.
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Grieg will be studied by the members
of the Harmonia club this week. Mis*
Peterson will give a descriptive talk
describing the composer in his home,
and Current E musical events will re
ceive a short notice. Mrs. George H.
Doah, 1138 "West Thirty-fifth street
will be the hostess.
The regular luncheon of the Domi
nant club will be held Saturday, No
vember 5, at the Ebell club house. The
address of the president, Miss Jennie
Winston, will be a feature of the day.
and the guests of honor will be Miss
Helen Eertram and Katherine Fisk, !
the well-known contralto of Chicago,
who is a guest of Los Angeles friends
this winter.
Mrs. L. J. Selby will have charge of
the luncheon.
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The programs for the Women's Press
club for November are announced tort-
November 8. Critical Study of a Short •
Story: Reading of Story "Dad," July
Sunset, Mrs. Dora Oliphant Coe; 1
paper, the story from the reader's
point of view, Mrs. Georglana S.
Townsend; paper, the story from tho
writer's viewpoint, Mrs. Lillian Col
lins; discussion (speakers limited to
two minutes); question box. Purd V.
Wright, city librarian, will be the
speaker for the program meeting No
vember 22, taking for his topic "Li
braries and Some of Their Uses."
The women's auxiliary of the Georgs
Junior Republic is planning a twilight
musicale to bo given the evening of
November 15 at the Women's club
house, for tho benefit of the Republic.
The program will be given, beginning
at 8:15, and the light will be arranged
to give a soft effect. It is expoetPU
that the women patrons will add •■ tho
beauty of the affair by appearing in Sj
handsome costumes, and tho musicians
who are to give tho program assure
a treat of the highest artistic, value.
Among those who will participate aro
Mrs. Robert Wankowskl, soprano; Mrs.
Estelle Heart Dreyfus, contralto; Fred
Ellis, baritone; Augustus Calve, basso;
Axel Simonson, cellist; Miss Modi'-.
solos, and Mrs. Judson Davis at th
piano.
BODY OF PARK SUICIDE
AWAITS IDENTIFICATION
The body of the man who committed
suicide in Hollenbeck park Saturday
afternoon is being held at tho John H.
Paul undertaking parlors for identi
fication. He was well dressed ami
was evidently about 65 years old. Ho
wore a dark suit and brown fedora
hat. In a pocket wore three pairs of
eyeglasses. He had gray hair, a stubby
gray mustache, without a beard, anil
gray BJTM His right leg was two
Inches shorter than the left leg.
If you are a prospective real estate
purchaser Mad Herald wants today
and every otlier day.
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