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I Editorial Section, Mm MAIN EHIET lOPlGHj City and Count! y. I 3 I NEWS OF THE MORNING- nmm XXIII" YEAR. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1904. PRICE CEN: i 1 -J POPCLXS. PRICES.

5 a.fumm w.ksas GREAT STORE FOR COULTER. NURSERY DAY AT MANHATTAN. CAR SMASHES AUTOMOBILE. In. B.

Blackstone Go. Trie; rphoncs: I TlTT7' rTlA'HtJ tidlttc a. I Jt I UUULO ...25 tVe Close on Saturdays at One O'clock. bonnet, and a big girl who carefully kept him in tow. The large bright-eyed girl, with him, exercising a motheily care, la the oldest of the Day Nurserys" charges.

She is thirteen, and has been one of their children for nine years, coming to them every day during iDe winter at luncheon and after school hours and she has gone nine times with the matron to the various beaches about; for this Is the ninth year that the Day Nursery had this fresh air feature for the children who are under its care during the winter. This Is the third year that they have rone to Manhattan Beach, and now they are possessors of a cottage of their own, a cottage with seven rooms, which shelters all the twenty-eight children as well as the several care-takers who accompany them, In the winter the brood stays only during the day time with the good people of the -Nursery but In the summer they stay day and night too, and they help with the work of the cottage and that makes play all the sweeter. There are squads for dish washing, for sweeping and cleaning; and the boys have the manly labor of chopping and carrying wood, besides helping with the housework; all In all they are as plump and rosy and happy a set of youngsters as the world holds, learning to wait upon themselves in a way that argues well for their usefulness In the future. The cottage has several flags fluttering gaily from the veranda and Inside are bright pictures which the children have put on the walla. There are a few Japanese lanterns, and many beds iExtraordiiiary Values in Washable Goods.

Embroidered Swisses at 12Jc Yd. There is still a fall assortment of colors to choose from inthe line of imported Swisses that went on sale yester. day morning. Greens, lavenders, pinks, reds, black and white and white and black. They are fine," sheer, summer dress fabrics that have sold as high as fifty cents a yard this season.

Most likely today will see the last of them, so be prompt. grlms to the house to offer sympathy. In spite of the pain of his own hurts. Dr. Osmun stayed up and received his neighbors, the newspaper men and even the claim agent of the road, with gentle courtesy.

He seemed perfectly hopeless about the fate of his little son, who lay unconscious In the house. The child did not come to himself until late In the evening. Dr. Osmun and the railroad officials have not the same version of the accident in all its details. Dr.

Osmun severely denounces the crew of the tower car, claiming that no warning was given and that the car was traveling at a high rate ol speed. Although a complete Investigation has not been made, the Pacific Electric people claim that their men, were not In any way to blame. "That car couldn't run at a high rate of speed." said one of the officials last night. "It Is a dinky tower car. The best speed It can do is about twelve miles an hour.

"So far as we can learn from the witnesses, Dr. Oamun was rattled. He got his auto with the front wheels on the track and then reversed, standing there until the car struck him. We believe he had plenty of time to hve crossed." DESK DEADLOCK OFF. Local Firm Gets Order for Supplying City School Buildings Castslar Street Pupils.

The school-desk deadlock was broken last night at the meeting of the Board of Education. After months of bitter quibbling over the purchase of about 5000 desks for the new school buildings, the award was last night made to a local Arm, the R. D. Bronson Desk Company, whose bid was to furnish the "Superior" single automatic desks at $2.70 each. Mr.

Bronson was at once given an order for over 3000 desks for September delivery and all the others will be furnished as ordered within the fiscal year. This Is quite a victory for the local firm, which received all the votes except that of Director The Building Committee reported that it had agreed upon a plan for the new Castelar-street building and hud advertised for bids for Its erection. The same committee whs directed to complete the purchase of five lots adjoining the Grattan-street school. The thIHren belonging to the burned Castelar-street building will be cared for until the new house is completed by the erection of three temporary rooms, by the remodeling of the lunch pavilion for the ungraded pupils, by sending others to three rooms at the Five People Fearfully Near Rivera. Hit Dr.

J. A. Osmun and Family the Victims. His Death Threatens Two Was the Autoist Rattled? The wreck demon that haunts the hapless Whlttier trolley line sent a "tower crashing Into an automobile yesterday, adding Dr. J.

Allen Osmun a wealthy physician of Rivera and almost his entire family to Us list of wounded victims. It Is not certain yet whether or not any deaths will result. Five people were in the automobile when it was run down at a crossing near Rivera and all were hurt. A little son, 3 year old, and Dr. Os- mun's aged mother-in-law, Mrs.

S. P. Graves are In danger. Both have been unconscious much of the time vlnce the accident and are fearfully hurt. Dr.

Osmun's wife and daughter-in-law were also of the party and, were both wounded. Mm raves' collar bone was broken and her scalp was badly lacerated. In view of her advanced age, the hurts are apt to have serious results. The little boy was injured internally. Mrs.

Osmun was cut about the head and the flesh was torn from some of her rib. Mrs. L. G. Osmun, was severly bruised but no bones wore broken.

One of Dr. Osmun's ribs was broken and another was cracked. The accident happened near Rivera late yesterday afternoon when the Os-muns were taking an airing and running slowly alona' a shaded road near their country place. A Whittler-bound "tower car," is ap proach concealed by the dense trees. struck the automobile with such frightful force that the big automobile was ground almost Into pulp.

The Ave occupants were hurled thirty i McEtamine Voiles 271c Silky-looking mercerized goods, soft and sheer. Mixed blues, grays and lavenders, now 27c 35c Madras Suitings 15c White or light colored grounds with pretty loom and printed stripes. All the best summer col-orings, now 15c. Pretty Silks for Suits, 85c Yd. This week we show a number of new styles in lancy silks for shirt-waist suits.

Pretty, odd weaves and designs in changeable taffetas. Styles a little different from any heretofore shown. Reds, blues, greens, browns, grays, black and white and white and black. Good, reliable qualities for summer use at 85o a yard. A iRANIGH BACH .5 r.

A. St. if 5 Spring and Third Sts. 35c to 50c Organdies 25c Real French goods in the delicate pastel shadings, shadow and warp-print effects, Dresdens and pompadours, now 25c. 15c Cheviots 10c Goods that launder well and wear.

Fancy stripes in pink, blue and red on white grounds, now 10c. One of many styles. HERB ttmrnn Kranich Bach Pianos are built by experts, and are masterpieces of piano construe ion. The scale is exception tlly even; the tone is full, rich and powerful and nothing but the best terials are used in ihe.r construction Buy a Kranich Bich and ave yourself the possibility of future los'or discontent, which' so often follows when another make is chosen. 1m -Tv III I Dry Goods' Man Buys the Bi Potomac Block.

Will Have Ten Times Present Capacity for Business. Immense Department Store for "Decaying End' B. F. Coulter has purchased the Potomac Block, on the west side of Broadway between Second and Third streets, leased the. lot Just south, which extends from Broadway to Hill street, and will have the entire plot covered with a mammoth department store.

His- present establishment will thus be expanded tenfold. The space now occupied by the Coulter Dry Goods Company In the Laughlln, building is much too small for Its necessities. A building that will afford ten times the space now used is to be provided. It will stand on the west side Of Broadway between Second and Third streets, have a frontage of 180 feet on Broadway by, a minimum depth of 165 feet, with a portion of the building extending through the block to Hill street, and fronting sixty feet on that thoroughfare. One hundred and eighteen thousand square feet of floor space will be provided hi the upper floors of the new quarters, with 39,000 square feet in the basement.

Negotiations looking to the securing of the. properties needed for this expansion- was concluded thrcugh the agency of R. A. Rowan Mr. Coulter acquires the Potomac Block, which is a four-story brick and stone structure, with lot 120x163 feet, from Myron Weeks, of Youngstown, at the price of $375,000.

The south half of the lot has an excess depth of sixteen feet. He leases of John D. Bickiiell for a long term the lot Just south, having a frontage of sixty feet on Brosdway, extending through the block to Hill street. and having a frontage of sixty feet on that thoroughfare. The Broadway fron.age is covered by a four-story orlck building now occupied ythe Los Angeles Furniture Company.

Bicknell will erect a tour-story brick upon the Hill-street portion of the lot, and the three buildings will be so Joined as to be ton-verted Into a' Blngle structure, which will be for the sole use of the B. F. Coulter Department Store. The Improvements needed to complete the quarters for this establishment will Involve, with the purchase price noted, a total Investment of something over half a million dollars. Tne purchaser of the property is B.

F. Coulter, stated, but hi will lease all to the. Coulter Dry Goods Company. In the future the Potomac Block will be Anown as the B. F.

Coulter Building. This property was purchased by Mr, Wick a little over two years ftgo for J223.00O from the Griffith brothers. The contract closed yesterday for the same property at 8375,000, speaks loudly for the Increase of realty values in "the decaying end of town." By moving the stairway and elevator now In the middle portio of the building, against the north wali; an extensive unobstructed frontagaf will be obtained. The bu.UIng Is to be altered throughout, and while the Wetherby-KayBer Shoe Compr.ny and Howland on the ground floor have term leases yet to run. It Is understood that they will be bought out.

The lease of the shoe merchants continues for two and a nair Just where the Los Angeles Furniture Company' Is going to move has not been made public, nor Is It known what disposition Is to be made of the Ville de Paris, which occupies the southern half, of the Potomac Block. The Coulter lease In the Laughlln Building will expire next July 15. The big concern will at first occupy the entire Bicknell Building and the addition through to Hill street as soon as Is completed, and hen the ground floor and other stories of the Potomac Block will be. taken up by the dry goods firm as the storerooms and offices become available. NEW MEN IN COMPANY.

Recently P. L. Lindholm and three sons of Sioux City, Iowa, purchased approximately a half Interest In the Los Angeles Furniture Company and tne imanoim lamines nave movei to Los Angeles to make their permanent homes here. For the present they are staying at the Hotel Besides the father and, mother there are Mr. and Mrs.

A.bert Lindholm, F. O. Lindholm and Henry Lindholm. The senior Lindholm was In the furniture business in Sioux City for a great many years and was drawn to Southern California by the moderate climate and wonderful business activity. The furniture company Is planning to greatly increase Its stock.

OFFICER KNOCKED OUT. Participated in Drunken Row en Avery Street and Got the Worst of It A telephone message was received at the Police Station last night asking that a squad be sent to No. 212 Avry street where it was stated murder had been committed. 'A patrol wagon loaded with officers was rushed to the place: and there. Deputy Constable Sanchez was found bleeding from a number of wounds In the head and too dased to tell what had happened.

Inquiry by the officers elicited the information that Sanches had got only what he seemingly had been looking for and the assailant had made his escape. According to the story of the landlady Sanches and two of his brothers brought a drunken Mexican home and' then began making such a noise that a man In an adjoining room asked them to keep quiet. They then went Into the fellow's room, and S.tnches. showing his star tried to arrest him for making such a request. Instead of submitting the lodger seiaed a heavy pitcher and broke it over the deputy constable's heHd, then put his brothers to flight.

Then the lodpt-r made his escape end 'when the reached the scene the Sanches brothers were guarding the door the house waiting for the assailant up-pear; They wer -dispersed and (uki to secure a warrant it ihty dentifd nn arrest. It Is probable thsit the i will result In the revocation of appointment deputy tca- lahU. King's Daughters' Brood at the Beach Again, Opening of Happy Season in the New Cottage. Children of Hard Worked Mothers in' Luck. Manhattan-Beach received an influx of lively little visitors, yesterday, and there was more rollicking merriment, more Jumping up and down on the sand, and more gleeful laughter, than has been known there since last September when the children of the King's Daughters Day Nursery from- Los Angeles left their beach abode.

Testerday they returned, twenty- eight of them, with nine months of city life to make them fairly bubble with the Joy of beholding the great ocean which seems to continue to the Jumplng-off place of the world. "Oh, where does all the water turn from?" said one mite who was probably too small to remember so long ago as last year. "Why, God turns the hose on every night and fills It up," replied another, with Ideas of his own. Yesterday afternoon' the good matron, Mrs. Turnbull, started out lth the entire crowd to give them the pleasure of wading, and of searching the golden sands for treasures, such as sand dollars, shells of rosy hue, kelp that the sea bad thrown up in sport for the special benefit of this crowa of beach babies.

The waves laughed and played and were too rough to allow of bathing; but the majority of tho mites who waded, ended in a partial bath that was as Jolly as It was impromptu. The small girls carefully tucked up their skirts to the filch water mark, and even the little deaf and dumb girl was Instructed In pantomine not to get her skirts wet; but who could resist going out to meet the breakers that looked -so harmless and pretty, but flip-flop and they slapped the plump legs till they tingled. The boys were no better off though they did not appear bo thoroughly drowned as the girls, but one ambitious mite was brought In with the briny deep upon him and the pleasing Intelligence imparted by an attendant sprite that "he was coming In, and eat down backwards," all of which was very apparent. The "littlest ones" had taken down smull buckets and shovels, end dug and revelled In the biggest sand pile they had every seen. Edward, the baby of the crowd (there severn 1 babies but he to be tha youngest.) boasting of eighteen months only, proudly marched down to the shore armed W.lh a tiny roke which he u.ed must for he Is a boy In spile at daiii biue ro.npcrs, sun- fy A l.u jiiiiilli -IMMIIIM III GEO.

J. BIRKEL STEINWAY, KRANICH BACH AND CECILIAN DEALERS 35.347 SOUTH SPRING LOS ANGELES $rrjJlMSJR HOME I ANHA3 lATf BEACH 11 mm 10,000 Bargains in Household Goods. Pi! 1 iilllllf' People from all over Southern California are hurrying to big Clearance sale. In the first place we have reduced ')rices on over 10,000 separate articles, and the reductions are so that in some cases our retail prices are below what some stores pay. It isn't necessary to pay cash, but we extend the privilege of our credit system which enables house-keepers to 1 furnish their homes 'and pay for the same at their own convenience.

For out of town patrons we pack goods i free and prepay the freight to nearly all towns in Southern California. All carpets are marked at. way below regular prices, "ind in addition we offer all remnants in carpets, mattings and linoleums at still greater reductions. Removal of the Day Nursery to the Seaside Children's Rejoicings. i Custer-street school, two rooms at the Alpine-street school, one room at the Settlement House, one at Solano- street school, and three at the Los Angeles Orphan Asylum.

NEW PROFESSORS. Occidental Trustees Elected Three Additional Members of College Faculty. The trustees of Occidental College at a meeting In the Los Anseles Bank yesterday afternoon elected three members of the faculty for the ensuing year. J'. Prof.

Ira W. Allen, A.M.. was chosen to the chair of Literature and Rhetoric. Prof. Allen Is a graduate of Williams College In tho class of '84, and has had considerable experience In teaching.

For twelve years be was connected with the Allen Academy of Chicago and for the latter part of this term was head master of the school. He has taken graduate work in Chicago University and at McCormick Theological Seminary. For fivs years he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Rock Island. III. During his course at Williams College he won the sophomore prize in oratory and In his senior year was class poet.

Miss Nellie Moore, recently from Oberlin College, was elected as physical director for women. Miss Moore will act as coach of the basketball team and her physical classes will be free to all women of the school. Miss Amy P. Gordon, who resigned the chair of literature to go as a fw eirn missionary, TiaVTng decided to remain one year longer In this country, was elected assistant professor of Bible and Missionary Study to assist her father Prof. John A.

Gordon. Tructtes G. A. Howard, Col. De La Vergne and President Wadsworth were appointed a committee to superintend the furnishing of the new Hall of FOO WING 'l 'rA 1 Xil unr nern remedies nave vunau nun jjuhus of ehronte cam after other remedies railed.

Free puke diagnosis. No Question asked Absent en Saturdays. 803 a OLIVE ST, Los Aiurslaa of course beds that are like shelves along the sides of the rooms, and which can be hooked out of the way when one wishes to clean up. In the dining room there are two long tables covered with clean white oil cloth, and a vase of scarlet geraniums In the center of each. One table Is high for the older children, and the other table Is low with small chairs that look like a kindergarten circle.

tent Is to be erected soon outside the building and In this tent the evening songs and games will be given, and the matron has a treat In store for them this year in the shape of a magic lantern with ever so many slides. But bedtime comes very early for the summer guests of the Day Nursery, and 8.30 o'clock will see them In bed after the day's romping. The wards of this -Nursery are as rule the children of widows, or those who have experienced misfortune In mf form; so that the mother of the family becomes tne bread winner, and this haven, safe and secure where the best of care Is given fo.r a nominal sum Is the place of all places for the children thus deprived of the mother's care In the day time. Ten cents a day is the charge made, but It Is enough to make the honest, self-respecting parents feel that their children ara supported snd not asking charity. The matron In charge spoke feelingly of the many fine women who are battling bravely alone for the support of their little ones and who are parents of children in the Nursery.

Here Is sunny-haired Theresa contentedly gamboling on the sand, happy as the day Is long, and yet Theresa has never besn away from home before, except In the day time and when the night fulls Theresa may feel a bit homesick; but a long night's rest wltn the sea singtng its lulluby In her ears, and she will have another happy day and even forget to be bomeBick wheu she grows rlepy Hnd the sand man comes a second time. feet down the road, where they lay stunned and bleeding, the child and the old lady unconscious. Dr. Osmun, who Is a retired New Jersey physician of considerable wealth, was sitting In the front seat of the auto opposite the Bide the i car struck. His wife sat with him.

On the rear seat were Mrs. 8. P. Graves, his wife's mother, an old lady of 77. With her sat Mrs.

L. G. Osmun, the wife of Dr. Osmun's Between them sat little Richard Osmun, the baby of the family, a little follow 3 years old. As they came near the track, Dr.

Osmun says that he stopped 150 feet back, listened' and looked through the I trees for a car. Hearing none, he went on, stopping at the grade of the crossing to throw on the climbing gear. Just as they got to the track, Mrs. Osmun cried that a car was, coming. Her, husband had Just time to look up.

His next conscious act was to go to the body of his little son lying un conscious by the roadside. Some kindling wood and iron that looked as though It might once have been machinery, was. in a culvert th road. His mother-in-law and his son's wife lay In the road; his wife had been thrown further down by the wrecked auto car. A livery team was sent from Rivera not more than a quarter of a mile away, and took the three women back to the pretty Osmun country place.

Dr. Osmun followed' later with his little son. The first trolley car that came along from Whlttier had as a passenger Dr. Scheuer of Whlttier. He gave medical attention.

Dr. Groten was summoned from Rivera and Dr. Rowley from Downey. As soon as thejiew reached the city the Pacific Electric Company sent down a urgeon. Although the Osrnans have been out here lean than two years from New Jersey, they are well known about Rivera, and the neighbors began coming from ail directions.

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