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POLICE MAKE AN EXCELLENT SHOWING IN ANNUAL REVIEW
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Led by a fife and drum corps, members of the Police Department in full dress uniform passed in annual inspection before Mayor Harper, members of the Police Commission and heads of the department at 11 o’clock this morning in Olive Street near Eighth.
Sergeant C.E. Sebastian and Patrolman Anthony Connelly were presented with medals for fidelity and bravery respectively.
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Mayor Harper, Commissioners Woodill, Lewis and Fuller, Chief Kern and Captains Broadhead, Auble and Flammer stood on the curb of the east side as the patrolmen in six squads, four abreast, passed.
Then the officers faced about in double ranks, with an American flag floating in the center, Patrolman Harlan being the color bearer.
Lieut. Charles Lenhausen,
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drill master, put the men through different maneuvers. . . .
Patrolman Connelly was called to the front. . . . Mayor Harper presented him with a medal for bravery. Connelly captured Dan Meskill, the murderer of Patrolman Lyons, in a pool hall after a hard struggle. . . .
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One hundred and forty-five patrolmen, eighteen sergeants and three lieutenants took part in the inspection. . . .
Everywhere were heard comments of approval upon the good showing made by the department.
After the inspection, the men marched to Broadway, then north to First and west to the central station, where they disbanded.
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CONGRESSMAN SMITH WILL GET NO REPLY
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Neither the Chamber of Commerce as a body, or through individuals, nor the Los Angeles Aqueduct Bureau, will take notice of the speech made in Congress yesterday by Congressman [Sylvester Clark] Smith [of Kern County], replying to the resolution recently adopted by the Chamber of Commerce, which contained
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grave reflections on his conduct and attitude in fighting the city’s water interests. . . .
“Congressman Smith talks of defending the rights of the farmers in the valley,” W.B. Mathews, legal adviser of the aqueduct department, commented.
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“There are no farmers involved. We are not having any troubles with the farmers in the valley.
“The only people we have had trouble with and the only people Congressman Smith is helping are a lot of speculators, schemers and promoters who are asking for right-of-way access across the
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lands of the government and whose schemes have originated since the city went into the valley.”
“Smith says he is looking after the farmers,” said Frank Wiggins, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. “That’s a joke. We’d like to know who his farmer is.”
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Los Angeles Express, May 23, 1908
Gigantic Gusher in Sherman Field
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SHERMAN, May 23 — The biggest gusher yet struck in the Sherman oil fields came in this morning at the extreme westerly well of the Salt Lake Company south of the Los Angeles-Pacific track.
It was a great surprise, as the well had been boring for the last four months and had attained a depth of about 2,600 feet without results.
Two large sump holes were filled and [the sumps] ran over before preparations could be made to save the oil.
Four or five mule teams
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and a large force of men immediately went to work building a big earthwork reservoir to stem the tide of oil.
It is estimated by men employed at the well that it will run at least 4,000 barrels a day.
For the last week considerable discouragement with the well has been felt by the men working there, and the gusher is the greater surprise on that account.
It is much farther west than the other producers in the Sherman area.
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Los Angeles Express, May 23, 1908
LOT ON BROADWAY SOLD FOR $234,000
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Hulett C. Merritt has purchased from the Hamburger Realty and Trust Co. the northwest corner of Broadway and 8th Street for a consideration of $234,000.
The lot has a frontage of 65 feet on
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Broadway and extends back 115 feet. The price paid therefor is at the range of $3,600 a foot for the Broadway frontage.
It is understood that the tenants of the old building now on the property already have been ordered to vacate
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and that a large business block will be erected on the site.
The sale was made through the agencies of W.L. Hollingsworth & Co. and Bryan & Bradford.
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THEATER BILLBOARD PICTURES ARE BAD
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Mrs. J. F. Kanst, chairman of the billboard committee of the Civic Association of Los Angeles, reported . . . this morning that a special effort is being made to suppress certain billboard advertising, particularly in instances where are shown, in the
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pictures, scenes of crime and suffering. . . .
[She claimed] that on the impressionable minds of children and young persons these are having an injurious effect.
Mrs. Kanst urged that the Civic Association . . . protest to
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the city authorities . . ., declaring the billboards to be not only a menace to the health and happiness of the community at large, but to public morals as well. . . .
[In response to a request by the Sierra Club of San Francisco, the association decided it would]
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endeavor to interest club women of Los Angeles in preventing the Hetch Hetchy country and Lake Eleanor, north of the Yosemite, from being converted into a reservoir.
Hetch Hetchy is now the source of San Francisco’s water supply.
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Was this the first black Presbyterian pastor on the West Coast?
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Installation services will be held at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, colored, tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, at which Rev. R.W. Hollman will be officially received as pastor.
Rev. J.M. Newell, D.D., will preside, and Rev. R.C. Cleland of Long Beach will preach the sermon.
The charge to the pastor will be delivered by Rev. A.B. Prichard, and Rev. E.P. Baker will deliver the charge to the people.
This is said to be the first colored pastor to occupy a pulpit of the Presbyterian denomination on the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Hollman is from South Carolina and has been in Southern California but a short time. He was received by the presbytery at its meeting last Monday.
The church is at Denker Avenue and West 35th Place. [Click for location on a modern map.]
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Los Angeles Express, May 23, 1908
ONE COMFORT STATION WILL BE ESTABLISHED
The finance committee of the City Council decided unanimously this morning that it will make provision in the next budget for the establishment of at least one comfort station in the downtown district next year.
It was proposed to locate the first station in Central Park [the present Pershing Square].
If the funds can be spared, one or two others will be established at other places in the heart of the city.
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| Hamburger’s Department Store ad, Los Angeles Express, May 23, 1908 |
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The Peter Thompson Suit
“ . . . a sort of voluntary school uniform on the lines of the sailor suit of childish years but lengthened, refined and eleganted for these grown-up years.
“They were made to order by an English tailor in New York, Mr. Peter Thompson, whose representative came all the way out to Duluth to take the measurements of his firm’s customers. . . .
“The style was classically standard but materials varied; the dark blue serge for every day, the cobalt blue linen for intermediate, the fine white linen for best. The top part slipped over the head and tucked into a rather full gored skirt, maybe four inches off the ground. White soutache braid bordered the sailor collar as well as the cuffs buttoned at the wrist.
“A starched stiff white dickey, with almost clerical stand-up collar, was tied with tapes at the back and was embroidered with anchor and chevrons as was one sleeve. A red or black triangular silk scarf tied in a sailor’s knot completed the costume.”
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