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MODEL HOMES FOR
POOR TO BE BUILT
City Planning Conference Act
ively Urges Building of 50
Concrete Houses
SLUM CONDITIONS TERRIBLE
Mrs. yon Wagner Arouses Gath
ering by Describing Condi
tions Due to Poverty
Fifty new concrete model homes tor
poor families probably will bo built
In Los Angeles at an early date as
the first result of the city planning
conference which opened yesterday at
618 New High street.
"The slum condition of Los Angeles
Js the worst on the continent. Rents
are higher than in eastern cities for
the conveniences and room that is
given and vermin, disease, poverty and
crime threaten every resident of this
city unless some prompt action is
taken," said Johanna yon Wagner, ex
pert supervisor of the city housing
commission, yesterday in an address
before the delegates to the conference.
Her statements caused a decided stir.
Mrs. Yon Wagner says that the
weather which permits human beings
to exist in almost any sort of shelter
here in Southern California is respon
sible for this condition. "The Mexi
cans come in here, rent a tiny piece
of ground for $1.50 or $2 per month and
erect there some sort of a shack from
old boxes, old Iron, old canvas, worn
out stage scenery, whatever It is pos-
Blble to find that will afford a slight
protection from public view and may
fee obtained at little cost." These
houses soon afford as much protection
and house room for filth, disease germs
and vermin as for the human beings
who live, therein, and as many of them
are huddled closely together, what
ever infection is to be found In one
epreads quickly.
FOREIGN POOR NUMEROUS
Mrs. Yon Wagner spoke of the great
foreign population and especially of
the vast number of bachelor immi
grants. Over 2000 Slavonian men are
to be found here without any fam
ilies, Russians some, Chinese, and
finally, in almost as great numbers,
Americans, one or two hundred of
whom are to be found in almost any
of the cheaper lodging houses, either
having left their families in the east
or never having had any.
■ This also, the speaker said, is a se
rious phase of the slum life which the
city must look after and which is al
ready making itself felt in a manner
whic'i is alarming indeed to the far
sighted men and women.
It is to prevent now, at the cost of a
few thousand dollars, slum conditions
which may eventually cost the city
hundreds of thousands, that the hous
ing committee, the city planning con
ference, and the more advanced wom
en's clubs are working.
The proposed building of fifty cement
concrete houses, each to be given a
separate plot of ground, with suitable
direction from a gardener and nurse
to enable the householders to under
stand and enjoy the privileges of the
conveniences, is now practically as
eured, and with the working out of this
problem the ultimate disposal of a large
proportion of the foreign born work
ing population of the city wil be ar
ranged.
HOUSING MATTER DISCUSSED
The matter of housing the poorer la
boring classes was the subject for gen
eral discussion at the conference yes
terday afternoon and received atten
tion from three speakers.
Dr. Titian J. Coffey gave a brief re
eume of the work of the city housing
committee showing how the needs of
the situation have been met up to date,
and showing also how imperative some
concerted and definite action is to pre
vent the establishment in the center of
the city of house courts which, here
In Los Angeles, take the place of the
tenement houses of eastern cities. Dr.
Coffey voiced the general feeling pre
valent among many otherwise well in
formed men and women, that owing
to the lack of great, rickety frame I
houses, pictures of which have made |
all readers familiar with the typical
Blum district of cities, our city had
nothing of this sort to contend with.
He explained the surprise which ani
mated members of the first housing
commission when it discovered the rude
and filthy habitations which were pro
vided for many of the foreigners In
■Los Angeles. His report showed the |
improvement of the house courts, many
of which were crowded, with grown
folk. Sometimes one family consist
ing of the father and five or six grown
married sons and daughters live to
gether in one room. He told also of I
courts whore twenty such families
lived with only one common water
faucet in the yard to supply water for
all, and affording almost no conveni
ences for cleanliness or even decent
living.
Dr. Coffey explained that some of the
worst of these courts had been de
stroyed and others improved, but : ays
the condition is threatening, and needs
prompt action.
DESCRIBES CITY BUILDING
John W. Mitchell gave a paper lost
evening in which he reviewed the mak
ing of thn city, through the thirty |
years which have elapsed since it was j
a meager Mexican pueblo with a few |
hundred inhabitants, and an area of
half a dozen square miles, to the pres
ent time, when, with a population of
more than 319,000, and covering an urea
of more than 85 square miles, it is ox
ceeded in area only by New York, CM
cago, New Orleans and Philadelphia.
Railway centers, administration cen
ters, sites for library and city hall,
the character of public buildings, parks
and boulevards and river improvement, !
were mentioned, and the most artistic
and beautiful plan for each suggested,
many of these in accordance with tho
well known Robinson plans for the city.
Mr. Mitchell closed hit* paper with
reference to the men who have boon
conspicuous in upbuilding the city,
concluding with this prophecy: "It Is
fast being realized that to make the
city attractive la to add culture and
refinement of taste to its other assets,
and there is no American city that
will lend Itself more- aptly to such im
provement than Los Angelas.
SPEAKERS IN EVENING
Oth erspeakers of the evening wrro
Dr. W. A. Lamb, A. B. Bonton, the
Rev. Dana aßrtlett, and others in the
audience.
Programs for today will include land
scape architecture of the city by W. D.
Cook and Mrs. Walter Lewis Burn,
better known as Belle Sumncr Angler,
and an authority on these questions.
Mrs. A. 8. Lobingier will speak on
the Arroyo Seco park, Mrs. Wllloughby
Rodman on playgrounds, J. B. Lippin
cott will give an address on "Metro
politan Park System," and Charles F.
Edson and Ernest Bn*unton will speak
of music and art In the city, and of
Frau Johanna Von Wagner, Whose
Speech Startled City Conference
s
PETITIONS FOR LIQUOR
LICENSES ARE DEFERRED
Four Deputy County Clerks Are
Sworn to Canvass Election
Returns Officially
Applications for liquor licenses from
territories which went "wet" at the
recent election were filed with the
board of supervisors yesterday. The
first was that of Jonh Adam< of
Naples, who wished permission to es
tablish a wholesale liquor business
there. His district polled a majority
in favor of the extension of liquor
privileges, but the board decided that
it was not known officially whether
the district had gone "wet" and put
asido his petition until a later date.
The board swore in four deputy
county clerks to canvass the returns
of last Tuesday's election and then
adjourned t) department eight of the
superior court. The clerks spent the
day delving through the returns and
examining the election sheets. Two
weeks probably will be consumed in
finishing the work and it will be at
least a week before official totals are
ready for announcement.
Because of many Imperfections in
the returns subpoenas had to be is
sued for election officers to report at
the supervisor's office today and to
morrow so that corrections can be
made.
The clerks appointed by the board
to attend to the work are: V. V. Lo
Roy, R. H. Corder, W. E. Cooley, B.
Couger, H. Rutan, G. N. Lockwood,
T. C. Young, W. H. Wright, John
Morris, R. H. Platt, Charles Leech,
W. P. Zewicky, A. B. Dessery, H. M.
Spinning, J. L. Clark, F. Sutherland,
Thomas C. Yaeger, John Norton, Rich
ard O. Lueder, Peter McNalley, Joseph
McClosky, Alexander Netz, M. H.
Packard, P. Romero, G. S. Clark, P. L.
Weller, William Miller, R. W. Rey
nolds, E. B. Cußhing, O. W. Orcutt,
P Baehman, S. Merrill, Karl O. Sny
der, E. V. Smith, Emmett Mullen,
Frank Tate, L. S. Chapman, George
D. Pratt, J. H. Holden, Morton New
man.
The supervisors received a report
that oil taken from the county pit in
the last four weeks for distribution
on the county roads amounted to
<ir,. The districts supplied wrro
San Gabriel, J653.53; Alhambra. $1124.38;
Long Reach, $827.29; Lamanda, $44.20;
San Antonio, $28.88; Florence, $989.06;
Fruitland, $1361.46; Wishburn, $327.58;
Hyde Park, $387.
«-•-»
FUNERAL OF JUDGE DIXON
Private funeral services will he held
: Thursday over the body of Judge Wil
liam Wirtz Dixon, formerly of Butte,
Mont . who came to Los Angeles two
years ago for his health and died Pat
! urday at the home of his nurse, Mis.
!;. <"i. Garland, 773 West Fifty-first
street. The .service will be hold at the
Cathedra] of St. Vibiana, the hour not
having been decided. The body will bo
placed in a vault awaiting wird from
Mr.s. Dixon, Who Is in New York. J.
Ross <.'liiilv, who has charge of the
former judge's affairs, is in charge of
j funeral arranßomcnls.
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trees. I" the evening the harbor will
be the subject for discussion with pa
pers and addresses by Miss Florence
Mills, captain Hansen and T. B. Com
stoi-k.
Temporary organization effected yes
terday placed the Rev. Dana Bartlett
in the chair, and Miss Florence Millo
as temporary secretary. A committee
on permanent organization consisted
of Dana W, Bartlett, Chairman; Fred
erick W. Blanchard, representing thn
chamber of commerce; Mrs Oliver I>.
Bryant, representing the Civics asso
ciation; Miss Florence Mills, represent
ing the Friday Morning club, and
Charlfs Farwell Edson, representing
the city of T-os Angeles.
Miss Florence Mills gave a tf.lk con
cerning the planning <>f the proponed
model village, Mrs. Knglehof Rundlo
outlined briefly the financial plan
whereby this village shall be built, and
Thomas J. Fellows explained the con
struction of the concrete bouses, tha
ventilation and other sanitary i!
to be installed, and the actual cost of
the houses, a model of which is ex
hibited in the hall at 618 New Jliyli
street, where the meetings aro held.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1910.
NARRATIVE OF SUSPECT
PERPLEXING TO POLICE
A Prisoner at Phoenix Tells of
Crimes and Release from
Texas Penitentiary
THOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 14.—Edward
i Murphy was brought to the county
! jail this evening from Temp as sus
pected of being the murderer of a po
liceman in Joplln, Mo., in November.
1909. He denies the charge but makes
a confession of another crime. He
was intoxicated when taken into cus
tody.
Murphy says that in November of
last year he was in the penitentiary at
Huntsville, Texas, serving a tlve-year
sentence for killing two policemen in
Moberly, Mo., of which crime he was
not guilty; that in February of this
year he killed a fellow convict in
i Huntsville with a pocket knife. He de-
I clared that after his discharge, in
! July, he was rearrested for killing the
j convict and released on a bond fur
nished by his cousin to appear Sep
tember 16. Then he ran away, forfeit-
Ing the bond. The inconsistent part
of his story is the serving of a term
In Texas for a Missouri crime. He
hardly answers the description of the
Joplln murderer, but may be wanted
j in Texas.
THIEVES STRIP HANGINGS
FROM WALLS OF HOUSES
Robbers Enter Vacant Premises
in Fashionable District
Thirty yards of gold braid, eight
yards of greer. velour and a dozen
shades were stolen from two new
houses owned by Althouse Bros., real
estate dealers, at Sixth Etreet and
Ardmore avenue and Sixth street and
Harvard boulevard. The burglars en
tered the houses Sunday night and
stripped the walls of the parlor of
the Harvard boulevard house, then
went to the Ardmore avenue pla»e
and obtained the shades.
The houses recently were completed
and the decorators had not finished
arranging the furnishings. The hang
ings are being placed by the Cali
fornia Furniture company. The velour
is valued at $7.60 a yard and the gold
braid at 75 cents a yard.
In addition to stripping the walls of
one of the houses, the thieves took a
quantity of side curtains, portieres and
other material which had not been
placed in position. The burglars evi
dently wore frightened away before
they had an opportunity to take this
stuff away, as it was found in the
yard yesterday morning when the
workmen appeared.
COMMISSION TO DISCUSS
LAW REGARDING DIVORCE
The interdenominational commission
of marriages and divorce for the south
ern section of California will hold a
meeting next Monday noon in the Fed
eration club rooms when measures for
Ing the passage of four bills re~
lattng to divorce by the next legisla
ture will be discussed.
The Mils which the organization
wants adopted concern the establish
ing of divorce examiners in each coun
ty; making it illegal to have more than
one witness In the court room at a
time during divorce proceedings; and
the requiring of fifteen days' residence
in a county and ten days notice to
the county clerk before the marriage
ceremony ran be performed.
ADMIRAL ARNOLD RETIRES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Rear Ad
miral Conway H. Arnold, IT. S. N., was
placed upon the retired list today. He
was born in New York city and is a
graduate or the naval academy. He is
president of the naval examining and
retiring board. His retirement results
in the promotion of Captain Thomas
B. Howurd to the rank gf. rear ad
miral.
HOLDS PICKETING
ORDINANCE VALID
State Supreme Court Supports
Los Angeles Law Attacked
by Union Men
HABEAS CORPUS IS REFUSED
Test Appeal of J. J. Williams Is
Decided-280 Other Cases
Hinge on Findings
"Word was receded in the office of
the city attorney yesterday morning
that the Los Angeles city ordinance
prohibiting picketing- has been declared
valid by the supreme court. This de
cision is made in dealing with the ap
peal of J. J. Williams, union picket,
who sought release from the city Jail
on a writ of habeas corpus, which waa
denied several weeks ago in the su
perior court by Judge W Tillls. The su
preme court also denies the writ.
Williams' case was used by the un
ionists to test the validity of the or
dinance, for the alleged violation of
which the defendant was arrested.
Following Williams' appearance In Po
lice Judge Chambers' court the case
went before Superior Judge Willis and
thence to the supreme court. Williams
was arrested in front of the Fulton
engine works, where the alleged picket
ing took place.
Austin Lewis, a San Francisco at
torney, who came here two months ago
to take charge of the legal end of the
strike, said yesterday that the princi
pal effect of the supreme court's de
cision would be to strengthen the
Peaceful Picketing Defense league, a
national organization, which Is now
being formed with temporary head
quarters in Los Angeles. Work upon
this organization was begun three
weeks ago and already Mr. Lewis has
received telegrams and letters from
many prominent persons indorsing the
organization and the idea for which it
purposes to stand. Among these are
messages from B. O. Flower, editor of
the Arena; Louis F. Post, editor of the
Public; Brand Whltlock, mayor of To
ledo; Mayor Seidel of Milwaukee,
Phelps Stokes and Rose Pastor Stokes,
Samuel Gompers, William English
Walling, Robert Hunter, Leonard Ab
bott, C. E. S. Wood and others.
WTIX, CONTINUE FIGHT
"We are going to fight," said Mr.
Ijewis yesterday, "and we are going
to have from the east all the support
we need, both In personal influence
and In dollars an! cents. There are
two ways to beat a bad law. One is to
defeat it legally in the courts; the
other is to make It impossible of en
forcement. We have failed so far in
the first way. The second still remains
untried. However, it is possible that
we shall now ask for a writ of habeas
corpus in the Williams' case before the
United States circuit court. We haven't
decided on that point yet If It is
taken to the circuit court and is denied
there we should naturally appeal to
the supreme court of the United States.
"I do not know whether the local
authorities will regard the work of our
organizers as picketing, nor whether
they will seek to prevent that work.
If they do we shall fight. There are
thousands of men just waiting for
word to come here and be arrested.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The First National Bank
of Los Angeles
At Close of Business November 10, 1910
Loan. .«< DUc0.,,,. .RE5E^...:.... ? n, 1^.30 i—- P- in ..^ 81?:1T^...i.. 5^=
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured fnmSm Surplus fund .......v 25U.UUU.UU
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation. , HS'nmm Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid. 1,631,516.35
B:Si2£-Tffi.?:».^"""n::: S« »*-.«-.—«, *»*»*
Premiums on U. S. Bonds None m Due to other National Banks $ 1,877,356.91 '
Bonds, Securities, etc (Bonds only) 1,008,825.00 g and bankers##>i 967> 432.01 ;
Due from National • Banks (not • $1,485,606.52" • Due to trust and savings banks..., 792,895.69
' serve agents) $1,485,606.52 • Due to trust and savings banks..., 792,895.69
Due from State banks and bankers 425,585.16 Dividends unpaid 2,0U3.UU
Due from approved reserve agents. 1,003,480.60 individual deposits subject to check 10,870,897.33
Checks and other cash items...... 108,500.81 Demand certificates of deposit... 135,627.36
Exchange for clearing house , 442,856.64 u..-i,c 43 129 63
Notes of other National Banks.... 110,230.00 Certified checks ."•••••■; ' ™'\f/Z
Fractional paper currency, nickels Cashier's checks outstanding ::::: SS :
and cents 4,979.67 U. S. Deposits 266,887.22
Lawful money reserve in bank, viz.: . . Letters of credit ". 7,693.90
!S $2«« 2,433,259.00 Total Deposit, 1S '254S
Cashand Sight Exchange i 6,014,498.40 Reserved for Taxes °'^
Redemption Fund with U. S. treasurer 62,500.00 Special Deposit-Acount increased capital stock 1,031,175.00
TOTAL ... $20,327,691.06 TOTAL ... $20,327,691.06
No Real Estate. No Furniture and Fixtures. state of California, ) # .
. t t c t> j County of Los Angeles (
No Premium on U. S. Bonds. Hammond Cashier of the. above named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge d T be»ef- HAMMOND> CaBnler . g
Subscribed and sworn before me this 14th' day of November, 1910.
—Attest: . .
J M E^lOTT^OdSarSSs^'c. PATTERSON, JNO. P. BURKE, JOHN S.
CRAVENS, F. Q. STORY, E. J. MARSHALL, Directors.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Owned by the Stockholders of the First National Bank
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, NOVEMBER 10th, 1910
RESOURCES ' LIABILITIES
Loans and Discounts .....$6,028,170.87 Capital .....;.,.......... ; .$1,250,000.00
Overdrafts • .'•••• 1,653.49 Surplus and undivided profits 657,268.78
Bonds, securities, etc """i U12.224.42 Bond Account ££££ 150,000.00
Banking house, furniture and fixtures 543,483.13 Deposits: Demand $3,175,227.92 _
Cash and Sight Exchange . . . . . . . 1,427,557.21 rime 4,080,592.42 7,255,820.34
TOTAL .. . .... $9,313,089.12 TOTAL . „: $9,313,089.12
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We could fill every Jail in the county
and have thousands still standing in
line, ready and eager to be incarcer
ated. They beat an anti-street speak
ing ordinance in Seattle that way last
winter."
Local labor leaders generally declare
the decision will have no effect upon
the strike situation. They say that the
work of "organizers" will be continued,
under the rules laid down for them
some time ago and which, It Is thought,
will not bring them into further con
flict with the antl-picketing ordinance.
However, if that conflict comes, union
men say they are ready for it.
E. H. Misner, a special organizer of
the International Association of Ma
chinists, and who is in charge of the
strike, said yesterday that picketing
had been abandoned some weeks ago
but added at the same time that the
"organizers" who succeeded the pickets
outside of shops where strikes are on,
will continue their work of proselyt
ing among non-union workmen.
"We have had good success along
this line already," he continued, "many
men who went to work as strike break
ers having subsequently joined the un
ion. Naturally we have made few con
verts among men -who refused to walk
out when the strike was declared and
we have dropped a few, seven, I be
lieve, from the union rolls."
The decision of the higher court will
directly affect 280 picketing cases now
on the dockets of the various courts
in the city. In these cases now pend
ing about hall' the defendants are out
on bail ranging from $25 to $100. The
other defendants are in Jail.
The entire supreme bench, with the
exception of Chief Justice Beatty, de
cides the Williams case by simply de
nying the writ." Justice Beatty goes
into some detail and explains his con
clusions as follows:
JUSTICE BEATTY'S FINDINGS
"This is the petition for a writ of
habeas corpus which has been denied
by the court.
"The prisoner was arrested upon a
complaint accusing him of violating a
penal ordinance of the city of Los An
geles. The ordinance is quite com
prehensive in its enumeration of acts
which it declares to be a misdemeanor,
and the prisoner was charged in the
Information with two distinct offenses
as defined in the ordinance: First, with
loitering on a public street in front of
the Fulton Engine works for the pur
pose of inducing and influencing per
sons to refrain from doing and perform
ing services and labor at said works;
second, with picketing in front of said
works for the purpose of intimidating,
threatening and coercing such persons.
It is argued in support of the petition
that the ordinance is invalid. As to
the provisions concerning picketing for
the Intimidation, threatening, etc.,
have no doubt that It Is valid exercise
of the powers of the local legislature;
as to the provisions relating to loiter
ing I have very serious doubts, they
are so vaguely comprehensive that a
person stopping on the street anywhere
in the vicinity of a place of business
for the purpose of dissuading an em
ploye from continuing in his employ
ment might be convicted of a misde
meanor. I therefore concur In the or
der denying the writ only upon the
ground that the charge of picketing
for the purpose of intimidation, etc.,
gives the police court Jurisdiction to
tr?S! tßned) harße" "C. J. BEATTY."
LONG ISLAND WOMAN ASKS
INFORMATION OF HER SON
Mrs William Wallace Saxton of Port
Jefferson, Long Island, N. T., is anx
iously seeking information of her son,
William R. Saxton, from whom she has
heard no word since January, 1909. Mrs.
Saxton has written the county asses
sor, asking him to aid her in her search
as she believes her eon to be in the vl-
CiThe young 8 ma^isVescribed as being
32 years old, of medium height with
light brown hnir and to have been an
expert well driller. „_.„—i«-n r