From the Los Angeles Herald,
March 2, 1903
NEWS OF THE CITY IN BRIEF
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Orpheum — Vaudeville
Burbank—“A Stranger in New York”
Chutes—Vaudeville
Unique—Vaudeville
City Council meets 10 a.m.
Southern California Academy Society meets, Women’s club house, 8 p.m.
Library investigation, 8 p.m.
A.F. Howell’s Impersonation, Simpson’s Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Strangers are invited to visit the chamber of commerce exhibit of California products, corner of Fourth and Broadway, second floor, where free information will be given on all subjects pertaining to this section.
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley is expected to reach this city early this morning. the first section of the Rock Island train, upon which he was due at 4:45 o’clock yesterday afternoon, was nearly twelve hours late.
 A suite of rooms has been reserved at the Van Nuys [hotel] for the admiral and his party numbering six people. It is expected that he will be tendered a reception at the chamber of commerce either tonight or tomorrow. Several private dinners have also been planned for the naval hero. . . .
William Bradly is charged with stealing a pair of workingman’s brogans at a second hand store of East First street yesterday morning. Patrolman Lennon sent Bradly and the shoes to the city prison.
Joe Chido, a Mexican, 69 years of age, fell off a chair in which he was seated at his home at the corner of Wesley avenue and Fortieth street [on the present USC campus] and died immediately on Saturday night. He was afflicted with rheumatism of the heart.
Christian Science reading rooms under the direction of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, will open tomorrow in rooms 508 and 509 of the Grant building, corner Fourth and Broadway. The public will be received from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
At the morning service at Immanuel Presbyterian church yesterday, $6,000 was raised with which to purchase a new carpet for the auditorium and to furnish the large addition that was built at a cost of $9,000 given to the church by Mrs. M.J. Rankin. [Click here for history of the church.]
A burglary was committed on Saturday at the house of George A. Smith, 1253 East Ninth street. The sum of $18 was stolen from Smith’s trousers pockets. Although he has some suspicion as to who did the job, it is not directed to the keynipper man. . . .
A lighted cigarette stub thrown carelessly upon an artificial palm by a plumber in Lena Donohue’s house of ill fame at 331 Aliso street yesterday afternoon caused a fire which left the bagnio in a very demoralized condition after the department had succeeded in putting out the flame. . . . The house and contents are insured. [Aliso is the frontage road of the present-day Santa Ana (101) Freeway.] . . .
The funeral of the late William T. Huston, jailer at the city prison, took place yesterday afternoon from Elks’ hall . . .. It was preceded by a military band. A body of policemen in full dress uniform, commanded by Chief [Charles] Elton and Captain Hensley, was followed by a deputation from the Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Brotherhood. . . . Many fine floral offerings . . . covered the casket. . . .
The new trolley line to Monrovia was opened to the public yesterday and every car was jammed. It was an ideal day for a ride into the country .. . . Cars were run every hour, and the trip each way as made in just about an hour. Later on, it is expected that the time will be reduced ten to fifteen minutes. . . .
Liberal Club Meets
J.D. Blakely last night delivered an interesting lecture before the Liberal Club at Brent’s Hall, 534 1/2 South Spring street. He advocated the teaching of religion in the public schools. . . . His definition of religion is “Morality.
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“A STRANGER
IN NEW YORK”
An Old Hoyt Play at the Burbank Last Night
Charles Hoyt’s “A Stranger in New York” has been played several times in Los Angeles and by those better able to make it a profitable evening’s entertainment than the company which presents it this week at the Burbank theater.
But none of Hoyt’s plays can make a total failure of a dull evening, so “A Stranger in New York” did not fail to please the always affable audience at the Burbank, which is more than ready to meet any stranger half way on Sunday night.
The songs used in this year’s “Stranger” ’s musical bouquet were culled long ago, and the jokes were of the same prehistoric period; but the women of the company made up in good looks what they lacked in the freshness of their costumes . . . .
Sale of seats opens today at the Los Angeles theater for “The Heart of Maryland” by David Belasco, which will be given two performances, Friday and Saturday evenings, March 6 and 7.
ENGINE’S WILD RUN
Unmanned, It Runs Through Streets
Switch Engine Breaks Away at River Station and Dashes Through Arcade Depot at High Rate of Speed — Is Ditched at Florence
Switch engine No. 1070 of the Southern Pacific company broke away from its train crew in the yards at River station at 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and after a wild dash down Alameda street through the Arcade depot, ditched itself at Florence, four miles south of the city limit.
That the eight-mile run, right through the center of the city at a time when the yards were filled with both passenger and freight trains, and at a speed approximating twenty miles an hour, was made without a collision of some kind is a matter of wonder.
Only the night crews at River station seemed to understand it. “It was fate,” is their laconic explanation. Then they add:
“Old 1070 always has been a capricious old tub. She watches us like a cat and plays tricks on us when she thinks she is neglected.” . . .
Last evening three woebegone Mexicans seated in a dilapidated wood wagon drove up to the central police station to report the death of the wife of one of the men. They had, lying in the bed of the wagon, the body of the deceased, which they had brought from the Encino ranch in the San Fernando valley. [Click here to see where it was.]
The woman had a bad fall on Saturday and, being in an advanced state of pregnancy, it caused her death yesterday morning.
The bereaved husband, a wood chopper named Priciliano Sanes, said that his dead wife’s maiden name was Juana Moreno and that she was 23 years of age.
The police directed the funeral procession to Bresee Bros. morgue, where Coroner Trout will hold an inquest today.
Bascom A. Stephens spoke before the Progressive Club last night on “Why I Am No Longer a Spiritualist.” He said there was a happy medium between the spiritual and material planes and that he had struck that medium.
At the close of his address, Dr. K.D. Wise and Rev. Mr. Woodward took turns at criticising Stephens for his fall from grace.
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and Main streets, just south of where Interstate 10 now runs. In their fine survey of a century of Minor League Baseball, Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright say that the site, officially Washington Park, was named for “a chute-the-chutes advertised as the highest and steepest in the world.” The property is now occupied by the 12-story L.A. Mart.