The city’s first adult night school will open for working people

The Palms is touted to be a ‘second Pasadena’

Gladhand greetings for William Jennings Bryan

MERRY STREET THRONGS CELEBRATE

THE NEW YEAR IN LOS ANGELES

Committee recommends lobbyists be barred

from floor of City Council

Chug a shot of whisky to help you get to sleep (Adv.)

When William Jennings Bryan arrived at the Chamber of Commerce shortly after noon for the public reception . . . he was given three distinct ovations.

• That part of the crowd which overflowed onto the sidewalk greeted him with cheers when he was driven up in front in an automobile.

• When those on the second floor caught sight of him, there was a second demonstration, and

• before it died away he came within eyeshot of those who crowded the gallery, and the welcome culminated in a cheer that rang from pit to dome. . . .

The crowd began gathering long before 11:30, the appointed hour, and swelled steadily until there were probably 3,000 in the building and on the sidewalk.

. . . Accompanying Mr. Bryan were Mayor A.C. Harper, Nathan Cole Jr. [founder of the Los Angeles Times in 1886], George H. Stewart and W.J. Washburn, president of the Chamber of Commerce.

They were hurried through the jostling crowd toward an elevator, but before it was reached a number of eager men had broken through and grasped the hand of the guest of honor.

. . . it was a veritable “glad hand” carnival that followed. The crowd was handled with great facility, and it is believed that Mr. Bryan established a record for the number of hand-shakes executed in a given time. . . .

The decorations were simple but patriotic, consisting entirely of national colors. . . .

[After lunch at the Jonathan

Bryan’s last day in Los Angeles was given mostly to . . . inspecting the Los Angeles

[At L.A. High] He heard the classes in Spanish and German

Nineteen hundred and seven came in amidst a jangle of bells and a tooting of horns in Los Angeles and was welcomed by thousands of men and women who had remained up for the purpose of welcoming the baby year and extending their greetings to it.

Those who did not stay up were compelled to participate in the fun anyway, as the noise . . . was of such a nature as to . . . compel a person who has not responded to even a college yell to sit up and take notice.

All during the early part of the night, the streets were thronged with people who paraded up and down with the horns, bells and noise-making apparatus of all description.

Through all the business sections of the city they paraded, and their yells mingled with the notes of strange-sounding whistles and nerve-racking jim-ricks.

By the crowds the worries and troubles of 1906 were forgotten. . . .

Happy New Year sounded from lip to lip, and in each case

When the whistles sounded that announced the departure of the old year, . . . merchants who had kept their stores open rushed out of doors to greet the new arrival . . ., while windows in the office buildings flew open with a crash.

In many of the homes . . . socials had been arranged for the evening and games were played and songs sung wishing every success to the new year.

First Night High School Opens Wednesday

An evening high school, the first of its kind ever held in Los Angeles, will be opened under the direction of Pres. John H. Francis Thursday, Jan. 3, at the Polytechnic High School.

This new feature of local educational work has been instituted in response to the appeals of many young men and women who want to get the advantages of high school courses

A competent corps of teachers will be in charge. The school will be open five nights a week . . . . Students will be admitted at the age of 15 and as much older as they please. . . .

The school is especially for workers. Every opportunity will be given them to fit themselves for active, useful lives in any of several lines.

Wren, Dromgold and Yonkin, constituting the special [City] Council committee appointed to draft rules, have rendered a report which has been filed with the Committee of the Whole for adoption.

With slight changes, the old rules have been retained, and the following have been added, notably one against lobbyists.

• Members must arise to address the council.

• Speeches are limited to five minutes, and only two speeches are permitted on each subject.

• Smoking is prohibited.

• All persons except councilman, city officials, newspaper reporters and citizens addressing the council are barred from the floor.

(The sergeant-at-arms must enforce the last two rules to the letter.)

• A two-thirds vote to amend or change rules is required.

• The sergeant-at-arms must notify all members of council and committee meetings.

• Roll must be called on all measures before the council.

• Members [are] forbidden absence from meetings, except for sickness or on leave, and . . . [a $5 fine is fixed] for violation.

A fine of $1 for each failure to attend adjourned meetings is fixed, and also $1 fine for leaving council chamber without permission.

Charles H. Mattingly, who owns extensive deposits of gray sandstone in what is known a Chatsworth Park near Los Angeles, . . . is

The Palms is getting to be ambitious.

J. Pierpont Morgan’s bank in New York doesn’t furnish enough interest to suit The Palms, so they are going to start a bank of their own.

To discuss this question, there will be a meeting of the citizens Saturday evening at the office of the Land, Light and Water Co. [in Palms].

The name of A. J. Stinton has been suggested for cashier.

Not since the palmy boom day of 1887 — 20 years ago — has The Palms taken on the life which possesses it today.

Rumors of all sorts are afloat, and in one-tenth of them are true, The Palms, located 20 minutes from Los Angeles and 10 minutes from the beach is destined to be a second Pasadena, says the Palms correspondent in the Los Angeles Examiner.

The Palms Water, Light and Land Co., acting evidently under an inspiration from the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad, has optioned hundreds of acres . . . between The Palms and the Crescent Bay. . . . within six months the Southern Pacific line between Los Angeles and Port Los Angeles [Santa Monica], and which goes through this pretty village, is to be electrified.

It is stated on the highest authority that the Harriman interests plan no less than to make The Palms a second Pasadena; and, to do this, the Harriman millions are pledged.

On the same authority it can be stated that on a hill site . . . is to be erected a million-dollar hotel.

The site is the finest in all Southern California. During the past week, a score or more of Chicago capitalists interested in the hotel plans have visited The Palms and have gone into ecstasies over the site . . . .

The activity in Palms really began about four weeks ago. . . . . The heads of the Palms corporation are Walter R. Wheat, vice president of the Bank of Venice, . . . Mr. Gary, nephew of the steel-trust magnate . . . , a man named Stewart, said to be another hustler of unlimited mean, and a Los Angeles capitalist named Seals.

It is said that these men, acting under inspiration from the officials of the Los Angeles Pacific, have optioned thousands of acres between Los Angeles and the beach and are prepared to spend millions in developing the same.

The Palms is to be the center of this development, and hundreds of thousands are to be spent in making this suburb the finest touching the city of Los Angeles.

The most attention is to be paid to the hill sites west of The Palms [probably the present upper Westside Village and Mar Vista], which afford the finest combination view of mountain, valley and sea to be found in the United States.

Another personage who has caught the Palms inspiration is Abbot Kinney himself, the Doge of Venice. Kinney has purchased 60 acres of land bordering The Palms and will spend a small fortune in developing the same.