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4 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. ,•; , . ...... . . . ...-•■. ;;■;.;.-..;,;.;.; : ; 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 PBBSKSSBSSSMSMMSSMM «»j>^S»»»»«»»»BB»»»M»S»JMBS»»l»»»Bl»»»»BSl»Ml»B»«»»B»»S»»»^^»i^^Ma»MB^»«»^P^^_ j ___^-- i "^^L^^^^M^^ti— jjJJJJJ "Hemingway" Spool Silk, Sold in /L r ] ( •*«■-» ■»■■; Bvmmt m^muntmm I>>"> Olh«r I. A. 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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