Flag desecration?

U.C. Professor Ernest Caroll Moore is replacing J.A. Foshay as school superintendent

At this moment in history, China was undergoing enormous political chaos — six years before the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Chinese Republic.

What’s more, Chinese of all classes were engaged in a boycott of American goods because of the cruel and illegal treatment that Chinese immigrants were receiving in the United States.

For a good treatment of Chinese-American relations in this period, read “The Chinese Boycott” by John W. Farmer in the January 1906 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

Accusations of a serious nature are made against Patrolman H.C. Allen by Mrs. A. Williams, colored, of No. 150 S. Alameda Street.

It is alleged by the woman and her husband that the policeman, through abuse of the woman when she was in a delicate condition, caused the prenatal death of her child, while Mrs. Williams herself now suffers intensely from the shock.

Allen, it is said, went to the Williams house to serve a warrant on the woman.

Brother officers of Allen declare that he is not at fault.

. . . The husband, who says he is a porter, declared last night that Officer Allen had

In a disreputable section of Alameda Street, in the rear of several larger buildings, is the home of the Williams family [see below].

The husband was at home last evening, and his wife was in a precarious condition as a result of having given birth to a child at 2 o’clock yesterday morning.

The child was stillborn.

“That officer-man will have to pay for this,” said Williams sullenly. “He’s got to reckon with me for what he done to my woman.

“Officer Allen, he come to my house, and he bluster my wife around. She was in a bad way.

“Allen, he took my woman and he twist her suddenly-like around and pushed her over on the floor. Then he abuse her and talk scandalous.

“This morning the little baby was born and it was dead. That man, he is to blame.”

Speaking of the autopsy over the dead child, Dr. Campbell said:

“There is no doubt that the excitement caused by the attempted arrest . . . caused a premature birth.

“In my opinion, however, the death of the child was not caused by any injury inflicted by the policeman.”

Los Angeles last night did a thriving business in supplying beds for stranded Pasadenans.

The rain was responsible for it. Trolley cars couldn’t run; people couldn’t walk; cab hire was abominably high — and the hotels profited thereby. . . .

It was wet — wow, was it wet! Down from the hillsides poured the copious streams of chocolate-covered waters, rich in their burden of sand and silt.

At the cross-streets they found a place of deposit, and in short order the trolley cars were tied up.

Men with shovels were kept busy patrolling these crossings and shoveling away the debris and sand. Even then there were constant hitches in the service of the lines using Broadway; and for a time every car line going over this street was at a standstill.

At First and Broadway a river was formed by the confluence of the stream from North Broadway and from West First Street, and [it]

Both Pacific Electric routes to Pasadena were put out of the running by sections of the track being covered so deeply with storm waters that the motors short-circuited when attempts were made to cross these lakes.

Much difficulty was experienced in getting imperative messages through to Los Angeles from Pasadena, and The Times established a line of couriers on horseback for the accommodation of its news service.

Large numbers of people from Pasadena, Monrovia and other outside points were compelled to stay in Los Angeles overnight. . . .

The Arroyo Seco has become a roaring, turbulent stream, menacing the lowland along its course.

Arroyo de Las Posos [sic], where the Huntington forces have been grading for a four-

Many basements were flooded. At Fifth Street the highway ran full from gutter to gutter, and up over the sidewalk came the dirty waters. Had there been a rise of another inch, the beautifully tessellated floors of the great rotunda in the Alexandria Hotel would have been covered by the flood. [For a photo of this room, click here.]

People thought about storm drains — and then they said [obscene?] things. . . .

On Boyle Heights the huge basement of the old powerhouse was flooded, and the opposite side of East First Street was cut into deep cañons by the rush of waters from North Chicago Street [where the Benjamin Franklin branch library is now; see map].

The storm waters caused Hollenbeck Lake to overflow its southern banks. . . .

With the superintendency of the city schools all cut and dried and tucked away in its waistcoat pocket, the Board of Education sat down to its adjourned session yesterday afternoon.

Everybody in the room understood the situation when Prof. [James A.] Foshay [the current superintendent, who had resigned] walked in and sat down . . . among the spectators.

The acute board had not only settled the question as to the man but they had it all carefully figured out how they were going to beat the city charter.

Prof. Ernest Carroll Moore of Berkeley is the man chosen, but he cannot yet come into his full title, though he comes into the full salary as soon as he takes up his duties.

He was elected Second Assistant City Superintendent, the rules of the board having first been suspended . . . . in the motion was included the stipulation that he shall be elected superintendent as soon as he becomes a legal resident of the city. . . .

He is about 35 years of age and is assistant professor of philosophy at Berkeley; . . . he is dean of the summer school; . . . he is also president of the State Board of Charities and Corrections.

He is a native of Ohio, has taught in every grade from kindergarten to the university . . . .

Prof. Moore is a son-in-law of J.A. Hughes, who resides at No. 407 W. 23rd Street, this city.

Will a cow with two bags, one beneath her body and the other on top, give twice as much milk as an ordinary cow with only a single outfit?

This is the question before Ben Robbins of No. 247 West 30th Street. He has one of these fully equipped new-style cows.

The animal, now 8 months old, is a fine Jersey, perfectly formed and healthy, except that it carries a second bag with four udders on its back.

This bag is a duplication of that in the regulation place under the body. The bag on

The calf was deformed in this peculiar way when it was born, and yet it has been very healthy.

Men who have had years of experience with cattle say this is the queerest and most wonderful freak they have seen, and they are watching the development of the animal with great interest.