Palo Altan 1914 September 4

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FOI'll   I'AIIES.
TALKS "DRY"     HIGH SCHOOL    PRESBYTERIANS   STANFORD MAY   CLASSES CLASH   WHAT HAY CROP
ON THE CiRCLl GETS TRANSFERS  TO BUILD HOME       GROW RICE ON CAMPUSGREEN  MEANS LOCALLY
Glass.     Touring
Holds Curbstone Audience
Prohibitionist. Eighteen  From Outside Schools !i Will  Be Ready  by Chriatmaa Exposition   at   Gridley    Tonight \ Victims Dragged Under Faucets Trade Balance Turns ThU Way
of   California and   Eastward Located Next to the Church Celebratea New State Crop Given Soaking in Glare of for a Gain of $35,000 to the
for an Hour
to Advanced Classes.
and Cost $5,000,
on Vast Acreage
Auto Lights
Community
I.,  a. „_-_ _   Vinevard   Areu- Tw*->   From   Iowa.   Two   From! A Two Story Plaatered Reaidencei University     Owns     Eighty-One! Hundred and   Fifty Sophomores Palo Alto. Originally a HayfieM.
in    /\naiV*»ia   Ol       »iiicy-a«     ™* n„l..|„.      CU™       U„..,   I -_l M;«-   !>._*-.•    «,„„;,,..   Pn-rh Th,.,.,..,!    A.-**..   Isa   Uetmrt   «f T*a J_   BUL...   I? tj. _r ■_   _   __    r-M.ll   ■»-___■
ment Challenges Liquor Interests With Financial Facta
Berkeley   Show   How Local
School Is Known.
Ilerred     frrfm     Ihe     Berkeley     High
Her. Mr- OlaM of Pasadena.
a nst;>** nf Tennessee, a Coo-
faderate war veteran, son ol a
..mt*:.::: slave owner, end for yenn
paat a well-known evangelist campaigning agalnat the liquor traffic.
spoke lor an hour Tuesday night
t*. an Intently attentive aedienre et* **** '
ISO people assembled in the Circle.'1"''
He waa preceded  hv  leaser *peali-
era. their ptatform heing an automo*,■***■'hool.
bile. The introductory festers oil Thf vlaasea Into which the trana-
the gathering was lhe marching j fer* have roeen r-srelved. their names
thither of a flag-hearing corpa of j and the arhoola thty came from to}-
children known ss lhe Young Cam-: low:
palgner* and locally organised by: Hij-ti aenlor -Herald It MeKlroy,
the Methodist Church II'nlverslty of Ssnta Clara.
Glass U not sn old-looking t.nw senior Allyn Cooke. Herke-
man "for a Civil war veteran The|i-.v High; Wllma Veaxey. Arkansas:
lure In his talk Is a peculiar whim-; Marguerite Rise-camp Washington.
*tcal way of saving ihlnga and then  I,,*a,
aosppiag off a statement and Issuing Un junior TtUtani Connelly of
a challenge to any hearer to drnv ■ i**i(* Alto nnd Whittier Wellmon of
IU truth, lie It futl of persoflSl 1 i^rm Alton from Manxantla; Anne
remlnlseence* ! Kaber.   Annie     Wright's    Seminary"
lie   dealt    with  the   liquor traffic   Kle-ia   Schoolcraft.   Itughoer    High.
In   various  of  Its  phasett.   but   msde | California
his     more   effective     general   argil-'      High    aophoiuor>
ments  by  placing  the  trafflc on  the| -.mea,   Iowa!   Da.'i
ground     of     violation   by   the   mer-   »'aul  High
ceoarv    few of the    moral and eftl-.     Lost    BOphomore
den-T-gtlsrdlDg right* of the many.' rell, Turhwk   High
He said  that    dealers rr>  out    that j ler,   Presto   High,
statewide   prohihltltm   would   rono*-j San   Prnnelaco '  l'<
tnte    property now of great    value i'ert-> GaUeeai
nn*   wonld   also  DC   a   violation     of_San   Itafael,   I
pentonnl     liberty  m  occupation     by|cim.   Hlah:    V
denyftf  men Hie right to engag
*  na*"V to their liking.
' My
Nine Roome. Sleeping Porch.
Big Living Room.
■The    PtO*hpt**otU • Church  la toj
have a new   .■■-*■>  nage home.  It wlllj*
coal about  t  and will be ready
for  occupancy   before  Ohrtstm
Thousand Acres in Heart of
Rice Area
Denude Eighty Freshmen of
Clothes in "Get-Even" War
I' tilt..11 imi-IU from other hlah
achool* have transferred tht* term
lo the Palo Alio High School Ther..
Iv one frmn  Washington.  Iowa;  one
from  Antes.  Iowa;  one from  Arkan-j     The     bouse  will   be  Iwo     stories'Hutte    county     tonight     under   big
ua.  one from  St,   Paul.   Minn,  and   high,     finished   011   lhe     outalde   Injtentu covering seven acre*. *
one from Toklo.   I* pan        The thlr-  r ream-colored  or   buff   plaster,  sap- j     Itecauae Stanford rnlvemlly own*
rs  are all   from  California I piled   with     two  scres-ned     sleeping; the -;rldlfy ranch of   • *• 000    acrea.
Two of Ihem have    Iran*-j porches   at   Ihe   rear  of   the  second. aht'in  eighteen  miles  north  of tlrld-
n   fxpoalHo*n   demonstrating   the       ,*■    sophomore-freshman     free-for*
eaaful  California  growth  of  rfoalgll     contest  on  the  great     lawn  tn;
ja* a new    crop la to be opened    In! front   of     the   ftOOkfJ     building   ai
[OHdley     In   the   southern     part   DfjfttaafWsl  Tuesday night   resulted    In
celling   disrobing  of   scores  of  t*ol-
iegiaw
-l.ewl*     Clark.
M    Wallace.  St
iiawald
High;   Mass:
Juat So
una! flgnta.'
Then the:
cease JU"l nt that poll)
lacg.n to Interfere wl
*>onal right- '* He plac
dealer  and  the  voler  I
aatd he. "go J
stop.    They j
High     fi
hlit.   I,!**   .
the
tlllK
ilaai
nth
the:
ntnhiit'i
tiitinit-tit  Is
Henrietta Ail-
Charles Ch.ind-
Waiter     Duncan.
Polytechnic    Hlah:
tltlth-sH-k   Academy.
-In 11*11*0, Mendo.
Kind ley, CnstllleJ-t
liimher.  Berkeley
ttahlo. Tttklo. Japan.
..*■    Doroth]     nine's High,
JTrdly necessary    on
to  the
Preabyterlan Churrh. The lot hna
a frontage, on Waverley street ol
0 feet snd a depth of tif feet The
entire I'reshjtertan property Is a
ner lot ItOxlSv feel lit Waver Is*.
and Pnreet
The Immediate front of the house
111  be bul one atory h'gh and will
itftatr-   ot   lm*    targe  living  rnnm
anting on a long 1*0nh emluscil hy
alass  and  screen      Hack  of  the  living   room   the   hulIdlnR   will  rlae  to
full  two story  height
lis   Ijiiitiii'l*.ler   of   Pain   Atto     Is
the     archttf't        The     totist ruction
111  lie  under  the (ntpervtsUm of  F
'    Pot  as  building  • on11 actor.
Since ihe completion of lhe  Pres
the
attn
tlom
Pu!,) Alto from
firnitghT     pupils 1>
1 h distant ♦•.
HALT WORK
ON PAVING
Inspector Demands Heavy Roller
Because  Earth  Is Spongy
Under Adohe Crust.
etu|imi'iii   of    n  vary
agricultural   Industry
Freshmen
apiieartng   'i
precipitated the war by
nun     Monda>     n'.ght
la a Producer This Year and
Hay Is Cheaper
Although Palti Alto began la W
haylieltj and haa far. Iwenty-tbree
years been steadily aiireadlng homen
and gardens and paved streeta oser
the original hay area the hay har-
veat la not )et merely a hlatnrlcal
local Incident
More than  seven  hundred tona of
nd   U   will  have  an   upstair*! \my
and a    downatalra . bathnmnt    and; *.rofllabl*»
nine othtr  rooms. :<„ thl,, wfjioa  |a ot direct  flowLa*Wi-,WB   .nn   ,qulrted   th
The  building   will  he  located     on : and     public
the   present   vacant   lot   next   to  the  Stanford.
In 1911? a quarter of an acre of
land was fir**! planted to rice In
Unite county Thla year there are
16,900 acres in growing rice flelda.
And the maximum acreage ensll
eonvertable Into rice culture In'
Unite county I* ?',*>.fiftS acrea.
This aeaaon'a crop totals about
TDO.nrifl hags of rice tif a quslltv
i-ald tn tie superior lo any grown In
the states of the south.
The gros* returns the acre from
Unite rice fields are between I*--
nnd 1100 The expenses of preparing the laud and hnrveallug thc
crop are onlv between $■*.> and $3T,
an acre The profits ate the largest
grtftl cereal imp now groan
and     attacking      three      sophomore hurley hay  have lieen hnrveatnt this
si) it nils      The  sen md -yeai   men  were season  off  the o*ten  flelda    flanking
dragged under nearhv  faucets on the the  outer  end  of   I'nlxerslt)   aveaoe
ughlv   with and   near  Mlaa  llsrker'a Sebool  aad
about     the the Peninsula hoapllal.
Interest   to  frlenda  of   ^(pr      *|*l,r  lawn  itaelf
hydrants hud heroine Inefaaa deep In
waler, ao thai Ihe soaking process
could lie achieved by simply rolling
the  captives  on  the green.
Hut Tuesday night the aopho-
Xjporea retaliated, having called Ihelr
reserxea lo Ihe cntora and Invoked
the gods of war the usual piltlotlanC
of the dans on their behalf, emulating recent Ideals nf the rgnr or
Ihe kaiser.
Tbe scuffles started at »:*0
o'clock and the battle raged fur
hall an hour. About IM) aopho-
mores were brought onto the filing
line The freshman defense consisted of some elghtv young  patriots
bytt
chn
atx   yeuri
,.'
fnllfo
nd hn*: been gradually growing for
e new home At present It con*
•ta of 12.0011 In cash Now effort!
e developing   to  raise  (he  balance.
Ncf Pope Elected
Cardinal IVlla Chleaa haa haee
elected |*0].** In aucceaslon to the lata
Pitta X. He gaSUtned lhe nit in e ul
llened'ct XV The rise uf the ne»
pojie has been rapid. Ilw waa pri
a ate secretary to the oecrelary ol
atate under linmpolln nnd was ctm
tinned by Merry del Vnl until 1101
wheti he waa made archbishop of
llologna. Only last Stat the |*o|*e
elevated hlni to the rank of card I*
nnl He la Italian by blrlli and education nnd was among the younge-l
of the cardinals, having served only
•even sears as an archbishop and
three months  as a cnrdlnal
the
■rid
0   genei
In altr
thf
hen
nml iivatl-ilile. watei
■eettoai of the Sacra
are peciillarlv adaptetl l
of rice, aa river watei
and irrigation *<mleiiiH
Ing.
belief,    r
any part
Is  good   land
Very   hirg-
inwn nnd denied th
f light fl
tors.   tltUth   I
> lib   :'......■
(in.
filled   thf
rombataati
tbelr elei-
r the man
lorn
vii lie
UlllU
lentn
the
l« plenllfnl
,re   develop
I of
Miners War in Butte
In Ihe war between rlyi'l 1
unions at Batle. Mont . the ft
BOO militiamen entered Ihe city yesterday mid arrested four of lhe
lenders of Ihe new union that is
tight'ng the We-lern Kederatlon of
Miner*-, bul tl'd not aucceed In getting the union's preaident, who l>
wanted tor inching riots Thn.,*
tompanlee. •■omprialng abont 2",f*
regular Infantrymen, base lieen ■ r*
■Sgtei   ftom    Port   OeorgC   Wright   In
Wnshlngton lo proceed Immediately
lo  Montana  nnd  encamp nl   Helena.
watttnr frTr***-lrTelopment« tn   Hutte.
nr fo7***-leTelo;
guilt more damnably on the lice
voter because nf his co-operation
jtermittlng s biisIneM known 1
proven lo Ix- detrimental to |iera
nl efficiency, personal moral! and
personal economy
Referr nc  to  lhe  greal     plea,  .if
the liquor Interests 00 behalf nf the
grai*e industry he held ihe \lnevard
excuse up aa the most ravsrabta.
screen  fmm  behind  which  tbe alley
saloonmen   and    the    vice   district*! 	
could   make   their   hidden   defensive, 1^,.^     Block     to     Wait      Thre-
flght for cruder liquor. j  Week-- as Moistened Concrete
In California, he aald are IT0.000 Sets.
acres in wine grapes, iio.oort acres j 	
in raialn grajies and -.0,000 arres In j The paving work on Melville ave-
-table grapcr.. Vet the revenues from | nue has lieen temporarily sunpended
the-wine gra|* area ar© not quite {until more thorough rolling of Ihe
one-third of lhe entire vlilcittlurat earth aurface can he done with a hi:
nf n.e of California. The liquor [eleven-ton roller.
dealer* -lalni that 150*000,000 la] John O. Miller, the old Stanford
Invented In California In wine-grnp** j varsity atnr Rugby player and half-
vine, wine-grape land.*, winery! mile runner, who la superintending
huildingp. winemaklng machinery.; the work, refnaefftn permit the eon-{
city  wine  vaults  and  other  areet-ao-' tractor In lav the concrete until thej
rlea to the traffic, antl  Ihnt  prohlbl-1 ground   wan     more   firmly     packed-to  the  proper  amiHithnesa  and   ll
tion alma to confiscate all Hils raatjdpsrn.      Hla    Inapectlon    deevloped   for   the   concrete.      It will thei
property      He said the proposed law   that the lighter roller used upon the. thoroughly rolled and sprinkled
—would -da nothing so    eo*tly.       The  sprtnk led  adobe  surface had  result-1 left ihat way until the concrele gang
■  aood   land     would      remain.       The.ed  In  a  mere    water-hardened     top | arrives.
building)" would Htlll lie of value forjrniat, leaving spongy earth beneath.; After the mixture of crushed roch
Home use*. Certain varieties °ft Commencing next Tuesday or, and cement I* spread on each block
wine grape* can readily be mads. Wednesday the concrete will begin j thet street will be kept rlo-ted and
into rsisln*. The res) '■»■- would be!go!ng down, after the ponderous, the paving molatened for three
inn temporary in depriving a few roller hna been thoroughly uaed. j weeka lief ore the lop dressing of oil
hundred* of men of employment, j The concrete gang of aome fifteen'and sand I* finally applied.
Ilut with n rhage to table or rsisln men will be able lo lay a block ofj (D .the origins! elty survey* of
grapes on the ssme land the acreage, paving every two day*. There .sre-Palo Alto * rb corners were made
would require about three tlmea as; five blocks to be laid on Melville. ■ qulle rharp, wllh a flve-fool radius,
many employe* aa are needed for! The concrete men will next lay the: Of n lota! of aome 470 posalbla
wine-grape harvest. .surface    on the    live block*    along'curb cornera In Palo Alio about 3T.0
Aaide from Immediate coxta snd Klngsley avenue. Next they wlllj bar* already been supplied wilh the
aome financial sacrifice*, he emph.v spread concrete on the bI* blorka of abrupt curve. On the present p-iv-
alred the general principal of good Foreat. Por this loinl of thirteen, ing work of four street* thirteen
to the public and to oncoming gen-{blocks the complete work at paving corners are being equipped with the
,_ef£tloni-. He mentioned tfcat he will take till nearly the first of No-'new standard sweeping curve pri>
uaed to bel'eve the freeing of the|x*ember The aeven blocks on Mld*!dnojd with a twelre-foot radius for
stave* was conlWat'on of property.! dlefletd will be done laat. and the easy automobile turning. A score of
Four million of negro slaves. ea*llv> paving will be finished about
w.,ri!i     then   I.'""   each.     wer« *et cerober 1st.
free.     That   waa  conAtcatlon of onej     The     earth-grading     gang  of  be-
blltlon    dollars'    worth of so-called. tween  fifteen
Ijirge acreages now used for win-*
arat.***-*. may poes-thle be more profitably converted  into rice fleld*
In BllttS rounty lhe soil lived for
rice Is black adobe. There am! In
other section* of California Hie
soli 1* said tn lie better for rice lhan
for an*, other cereal that could be
grown upon It.
Iliiitilii.il'nt- n
lu  Hit* awlll
ndlvldmi!
•tlrhl ting
furious h(niggle
developed Into
■oaf 111 a 1 temp!*, to
er fellow's clothes off.
ronclualon of ihe scrap
freshmen imd euougii
to pooa    exaa as track
Htunford'i*
Orid If
ranch   wa
ranch  It*
• a  great   -sheatfleld
if is Immediately nd)-n
lb.     t.-wii   of   Durham.
Tbt
pull  the tithe
Al   the     Of
tew   of   th.
chtlliliig  tn  in  pau     1 .tii  a*
athletea    Ib    abbrevtaiad   t..-t
Many of them, almost naked.
1 (Mil pel lei!   to   make   n   wide     tl
•mt bach of ihe qnadranajla 1
lagi ami round through the tlel
ga'ti tbe sheller of fraternity h
and the halls.
The   sophomore     vhtoii    nm
lowed   b>   nn   im prom plu  pnrt*d
The hav, 1101
•veil   great   plli
small bungali
.11   of  belt
top
baled  and   forming
nearly  the  *li» of
.  ■ -.I:. 1,,.;..-. ■   a »*a-
■llfornla.
fruit     tonnr
mills and lw
Jame
Sun   Fran
nominee
California
lltltte   (til
1 nnd   a
field*.
The
li   I'helan. ihrl
of 1
designers In <on*
'ink  predict Ihal ns
nr Paris will  proh-
t*tte*ignlng   prestige
Aiiifrl.,-n-creatri|
*•♦♦♦♦♦••*•*>♦ a
ta|'lied
a lib
•l»  Hi
■•ent and
other  cornera   la   being   changed   to
the larger sweep.    Each such chance
' ■■ s- about $9 extra, where otd con*
and  twenty  men   will {crele   Is   removed.       Thl*     general
property- Yet he said he knew by J proceed
:>■!;■ it...' travel that not one man In
.1 hundred thousand can now he
found in ■■'-:■ °t the aid slave states
who would be willing to have
slavery restored.
Independently of the con-!chsrge of    about   $.12
about     each
crete workers, and. after completing
the removal of earth from Klngsley,
will plow up snd grade Forest and
then Mlddlefleld. In each rase the
graders will bring the aurface down
corners
or  the  four
Junction   of
streeta Is an extra tax apportioned
upon the property hair a block along
each street foor ways from tho
corners.
n ?   re«
•i.pi -|t-e     rtre'    land*    In     l.tilf
iinty    are    generally   close   gbOtt!
id northward of "nrldiey.
NoOinly la the m.oon-acre Siap.
rd  ranch  In   Hut in  county a  rite
►♦{growing   prospect* bul  the Piantor:
rell Vina rotKh, on the *am* nlde of tht
be J Sacramento river nnd about twcnl'-
nd 1 two. mile*  to  the  northward.  I*  an
other     great     rice-producing    im*»l<
hlllty.
The   Vina     ranch  Ix In    Tchsmn
county,  and  contains     .'iD.ODO  acrea
ll  stretches  for t**ree or four mile-
nlong  the    aide of the    Facrarncnir
river   nnd   thence   spread*   far   hack
Into nml over ihe foothill* thmm-t. gj
lava region lit only for grazing.    <In j
the flat and tertile valley arena next j
lo the liver are 'incyftnl* an*! tlnliyl
range*.    Ten  year*    ago and   frnm
rtenator    Btauford'l   time   Uie   Vina
ranch    rontalnetl     T.000    acrrt     '11
grapev;n'«. That     nereage    wa*
known as "Xbn I argent vlnev;,-d in!
tbe woild." Wuhln recent yo* *\
thai et.eat wlne*grape vineyaid h .*]
■hnnk-*ii away tc only about   I, ;
acre-i 11 vines The trouble b'i*{
he*»n .* *va*j*iS deatrurtlve to g'flps '
vlnea.
attka.1 10.000 acre* of the flat and'
therefor.-* irrigable section* c* thej
*• ira c;,pch could probably lie ren*j
veiled Into rice fields. Deer creek*
.1 ctr^nm carrying a huge flow of!
w.sto.* twenty feet wide and iVe.-
fixe 'e«t deep, constantly Pow>j
through   the  ranch   from   thc  11.0111*
Impos-
I'artlx
IW,   ra—t
iiiive hiuK aerved lhe ranch.
On the Vina    ranch 1* nn
Ingty    large    ** bite washed
building  iif-d   a-  .1   winery.
snironndlng 11 ate long, b
brick buildings lu which are stared
great qiiantiilta of brandy Im*
mnred there under government !«»n'l
■tnd  piuXtytod  Ity  a  resldenl   federal
revei collector.
The   old     ninth   house     in-.ir   bv.
thc
ipor
Ot~
.'tor Stanford. I* a commodious and
taiden-istiirouiideil beautiful country
residence, There the rundi superintendent dwells. Near by ure many
burn*     and     agricultural   buildings
and group* of siioh* containing preserved fodder for winter use by the
herds or blooded cuttle. And pea*
cock*, trail egotlsllcnlly about the
place and -In the evening fly to lofty
perches !n the great white oak tree*.
with ajhlch the whole valla) part of
the ranch ifl plentifully dotted, even
In the vineyards. The adjacent
town" of Vina !* only a railroad village of alKiut  100  iieople.
Last   year  local  denlera In  fodder
r traffic anlmala had to ahlp all
their hay Into I'alo Alio Thla year
the lown and Immediately adjacent
rop I* ao large Ihal I'alo Alto will
ie shlpp'ng hay out to other markets.
The  annual     consumption  of   tiny
driving and  «ork  horses of  I'alo
io    ranges    aontewberc    bet wean
'00 and 2.<)nn tuns
Uast xenr total dealer* had to pay
high  at   t :■■  a Ion  for *onie hay
light wholesvlrt, ahl gh that was
nn exceptionally high buying price-
here.
Thl* Seesoo local' dealers have
been offered ami nre able to gel hay
for ghoul the following rale* the
loo: Itetl oat hay or wheal hay,
110: barley bay. $9. and wild-oat
har or volunteer hay. *fj t9^*y s-*-.,
cording lo ha qilallty.'*-'In f-t aver-
nge year red oat hay has regularly
heen bringing 012 n ton lo thu**>
■applytag   the   local     dealer* The
tbnndanre and proximity of this
year's crop practically tiieiina Ibat
bae-*for Palo Alio animals for the
ensuing year should be Mimewhero
bet wen   It and  30 per real  cheaiier
than it has been the paat year* On
a >.000*ton IuihIs of local conennp-
Uon,  that  means a  reduction some
where  between     14.000  and   tit.OOO
In  Ihe coming  yeai"* aggregate  hay
bill fi-r ■toreheepera and others of
this city.
Evidently the price of hay !a not
siillty of Increasing the cost or Ilw—
Ing inSI'olo Alto.
Where Inst year there was ir
a|i.trr,e bacal crop, ihis year there
has been abundance, so both producer and consumer benefit.
Where ln*t year it wag necessary
to lend ;■■'■■■ Iii"... out of thr.
community for hay buying, thi*
year all Ihal outflow will he stopped
iu nl soma residents ot the neighborhood adjacent to I'alo Alto will actually lie drawing hay-sales money
Hit* way from other sections. In
iidilltlon to thla hav-aalcH balance of
possibly 120.000 cf money kept In
pglo Alto this coming year there
will lie the actual local saving of between St.000 and |J».©00 to Individual buyer* of hay.
The whole hay mnrkel. bo far aa
I'alo Altn I* concerned. Indlcatea a
balance of trade of about fZo.OOO In
fn\or of the community. Everything or legitimate benefit to any
oleiuent of a community is ultimately helpful for the community aa a
whole, and tn Ita various parts, because of the constant Interrelation*
of trade.
lluerta has gone to f*pain. It la
■ m-ulral-iountry where the lluerta
ti.-lit in-  aplrit   may start  nomethlng.
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