HENRY HUNTINGTON PLANS
ELEVATED RAILWAY TO PASADENA

Meanwhile, streetcar workers face a 22-hour day on July 4th

What will women do about Socialists’ bid to attend their meeting in Santa Monica?

The L.A. Times, in its endless crusade against progressive thought, warns that the Woman’s Socialistic Union of Pasadena holds some ‘very peculiar views’ upon social and marital relations. What are those views? It doesn’t say 

Southland women discussing juvenile problems are described as ‘pretty’ and ‘beautiful’;
one of them has a ‘big brain’

Doctors receive 50 doses of a drug to fight expected tetanus threat from fireworks

Man battling spiritualists says he was the target of real bullets

Judge says cops can’t force a defendant to serve out his suspended sentence

Health Department seeks to clean up the filthy mess in L.A.’s bakeries

Los Angeles Sunday Times, July 7, 1907

HUNTINGTON HURRIES DESTINY TOWARD MILLION POPULATION

Trolley King Prepares Great Plans for This Wonder City in Elevated Lines to Pasadena

An elevated four-track electric railroad from the Pacific Electric Building to Pasadena, . . . affording overhead ingress to Los Angeles for all the trolley cars from the San Gabriel Valley and point beyond, is a Huntington dream of the future.

How long in future only the trolley king knows, but that it

Already plans have been perfected for the elevated from the Pacific Electric Building to Ninth and Tennessee streets [Tennessee St., bet. 8th & 16th Sts., is now part of Hooper Ave.] , to accommodate the great

This, with the other project, will mean elevated traffic north and south from the Pacific Electric and will bring all Southern California in closer touch with the throbbing city.

 When Henry Huntington decided to build a combined interurban terminal and office building in downtown Los Angeles, everyone knew the structure would be extraordinary . . . . The result was Los Angeles' first skyscraper and the largest building in the city. The Huntington Building was constructed on the southeast corner of 6th & Main Streets, and was responsible for the moving of the city's business district from the traditional 2nd & Spring focal point to 6th & Main

   The Huntington Building opened on January 15, 1905, with a great public celebration. . . . The waiting room was ornately furnished and decorated in the style of the period and was widely regarded as being the outstanding example of railroad terminal design west of Chicago. . . .

   In those days, . . . it was not unusual to behold a string of assorted cars stretching from the terminal south to Ninth Street and north to 4th Street.

The city demanded relief, and Huntington brought forth a plan for the Santee Street Spur, connecting at the rear of the station. In February, 1906, it was announced that Huntington had secured all necessary land and that construction on the spur track would start in the near future. This trackage was to have started at 9th & Santee Streets, and run north on Santee to a point east of the Huntington Building, then curve into the terminal from the rear. Thus all interurban traffic from San Pedro, Long Beach, Whittier, Santa Ana and Newport would be removed from Main Street. This Santee Street Spur was never built, and Huntington later sold the right-of-way to private parties. . . .

Policemen will not be able, hereafter, to intimidate or perpetually banish from this city persons against whom a suspended sentence is recorded in the Police Courts.

This power they have long arrogated to themselves, picking up such individuals, if found within the municipal limits, and making them serve the full

Superior Judge H.N. Smith, in ordering the release of Walter Douglas on habeas corpus proceedings, . . . declared that such a practice is irregular and unlawful. . . .

Douglas was sentenced by Judge Rose to serve two days in the city jail after

The judge suspended the sentence. Douglas left the city and subsequently became a Pullman porter.

In the course of his work, he arrived here June 10 on a train, and the policeman who had caused him to be first arrested promptly gobbled him up.

The Woman’s Socialistic Union of Pasadena is knocking at the doors of the Woman’s Parliament now in session at Santa Monica.

“Shall we allow them representation?”

That is the question that is agitating the officials of this splendid, broad-minded parliament of women’s organizations, which has thrown open its doors to every creed and every sect.

The parliament has never before been called upon to

These views, if rehearsed at the Woman’s Parliament, would probably cause a sensation, and the lovely wives, mothers and daughters who compose its membership would doubtless be shocked.

Miss Ethel Whitehead, the official representative of the socialistic organization, was

The matter will be discussed this morning, and every one is wondering what the day will bring forth. [Nothing was reported about this matter in the next day’s Times.]

Guided by the big brain of Mrs. O. Shepherd Barnum and meeting at the home of Mrs. D[aniel] G. Stephens, the 31st semi-annual session of the Woman’s Parliament [of Southern California] will make history.

Never before have so many clubs, societies and organizations assembled for one purpose — the good of the child, the shaping of the material that is to make the race.

. . . women counseled together on child-saving measures, on juvenile courts, on playgrounds and on physical examinations and other necessary adjuncts of school life. . . .

A clever, witty paper . . . was read by Mrs. B.C. Davies of Monrovia. . . .

“Know a little of everything, devour books like bonbons, and review them to your heart’s content, write papers on protoplasm and the fixed stars;

The afternoon session opened with songs by 20 lively looking little lads from the Los Angeles Orphans Home, under the care of Mrs. Arthur N. Davidson, and their leader, Mr. Brauer.

My, how they did sing, and then whistled the refrain. They were most enthusiastically encored.

After the songs, Mrs. W. F. Fleet, a beautiful young matron, who has the proud and unique distinction of being the head of the Boys’ Baseball League of the Los Angeles Orphans’ Home, read a paper on “How I Win My Boys.”

Dr. Louise Harvey Clarke spoke for Riverside. . . . She found that 8 percent of the children of school age are out of school, and she thought that every woman in the county should ask herself, “Am I these children’s keeper?”

Mrs. W.C. Warner of Redlands . . . told of the work of the Contemporary Club of Redlands in establishing a community house, where the children of wage-earning mothers are cared for and kept off the streets. . . .

Mrs. F.H. Dudley of Ventura . . . objected most eloquently to the present-day athletics, the “contests with medal attachments” that she has found to be the ruin of many promising youths.

She denounced . . . the bands of steel that manacle the educational system of America.

Unfoldment, not cramming, she took to be the meaning of education, and she demanded that the growing student be not made to spend any time at night work.

Her paper was a strong arraignment of the present-day school system, “the mill of education that grinds the parents as well as the children.”  . . .

Special provisions have been made at the Receiving Hospital for the care of tomorrow’s victims of toy pistols, blank cartridge revolvers and other forms of noise produced in the hands of Young America and older patriotic [people.] . . .

Fifty immunity doses of the anti-tetanic serum have been received . . ., to treat all patients who are threatened with lockjaw.

Injection of the serum after the jaw has stiffened is said to be useless. . . .

Anti-tetanic serum has been in use for several years, but this is the first time that any considerable quantity has been brought to Los Angeles.

One of the precautions necessary is that it be kept at a low temperature.

Robert T. Hale, president of the Anti-Faker Society of Los Angeles, claims to have been fired upon from ambush at 8:30 o’clock last evening in Edendale . . . .

[He] asserts that three or four shots were fired at him

He said he has no clew to the perpetrators . . . but suspects a class of spirit mediums and

Mr. Hale states that he is brought to believe this by the number of threatening letters he has received recently at his home, No. 1042 Santee Street . . . .

The removal of bake shops from basements . . . [is] to be incorporated in an ordinance which the City Health Department will ask the council to pass. . . .

Many complaints have been

The average baker either chews or smokes, and the new ordinance will forbid this.

As a rule, the bakeries do not provide cuspidors, and the bakers carelessly expectorate in all directions.

Every regular conductor and motorman and all extra platform men on the street railway systems started in on a 22-hour tour of duty at 5 a.m. Thursday.

To the carmen, Independence Day means only work, more work and then some.

The long hours will be felt especially by the regular men, many of whom will run their cars in the barns at 3 o’clock Friday morning and

Every precaution has been taken by the several systems to insure against accidents in transporting the great throng of pleasure-seekers.

To insure against any tieup on the lines, wrecking and “trouble” [street] cars were stationed on side tracks at short distances along all the lines early Thursday morning.

A corps of physicians is being held in readiness by each company, and a special car stands ready to transport them to any point on the lines in case an accident should occur.

The early-morning cars bound for the beaches and the foothills were crowded to the guards, and it is expected that a new record will be established in the number of passengers carried.