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STENOGRAPHER 8 at mpIi skPTEMBER 9, 1923' VA Oauianb Cuuune FLEET OF PAST They're Rebuilding the Ships of Old ELIZABETll Eastbay designer' and decorator, and CAPTAIN FRANK BELL, ship who are in charge of the construction ofthe fleet of historic vessels to be used in the water pageant on Lake Merritt during Obapesla week. Will Preside BISHOP BENJAMIN F. LEE, senior, bishop of the African M.E. church, who trill wield the gavel rnt the conference to open at Los An-teles on Sept. 25.

DECLINE IE HIT ON INCOME TAX 1 Sixty Historic Craft Being Constructed for Fiesta de la Laguna. ALIENS MAKING FALSE RETURNS COURTSHIP A TO BE SAILED ON SOWS IDE! IT is Collector Warns on Penalty for Wrong Statements; Third Payment Due. Modern Man's Methods Fail To Give Women Wide Range of Choice. Few Held Sufficiently Slull-ful To Serve As Court Reporters. By A.

J. LORE3JZ. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO, Sept 8. Ever slae Tiro kept time with hi stymi i Cicero's orations there bavo bee I Out of California's romantic past By Universal Service.

LONDON, Sept. 8. How do men propose nowadays Just try to recall an; Instance of the kind within your own experience, or, if your own marriage has taken place within the last twenty years. Just recall how it was arranged, and you will realize that the proposal, the sudden impassioned plea for a girl's hand, has changed out of all recognition. It hs come to the attention of John P.

McLaughlin, Internal revenue collector, that aliens leaving the United Sthtes are making false affidavits in his office regarding their Income tax liability. Collector McLaughlin stated that all aliens leaving this country and who make false statements in his office in ordr to evade the income tax law are liable to a fine of 110,000 and two years' imprisonment. The investigations which are being made by his field force, Mc One proposal was staged some- like thjs: The twp young I .1,1, I stenographers and stenographers. I The Tlronean system ha steal supplanted by. the various short- i hand methods that make a secretary's notebook look llk th Korn.

Stenographers have increased' numerically, at least, if not in efficiency, according to Horace A. Edgecomb, of Boston, president of the National Shorthand Reporters association which met here, Although stenographers ars numerous, court -reporters are scare as good cooks, said Edgecomb. "Of the 700,000 stenographers In the United States, not one half of one per cent are skillful enough to make verbatim reports of erdin- ary or. witnesses In Edgecomb explained. "Too many of those Who tak up shorthand have almost no Eng-gllsh education, and the situation is growing steadily oraa.

"Court reporters differ from ordinary stenographer in the sam respect that a John Singer Sargent differs from the man wh white-, washes a barn." I' To prove his point Edgecomb presented a trio of lllustrlou nam i at the top of the stenographic division, in Charles gwera, President Wilson's personal reporter at Paris; Herman H. Pechin, who reported the disarmament conference in 1922, and Fred A. Carlsor, American reporter at fh peace conference In 191J To them 100 words a mlnut means nothing more than a little) literacy Jog-trot in the most diversified fields, ranging om sermon, banquet speeches to divorc proceedings. They will aga.n compet for thl year's leg on the silver cup which, goes to the winner of the 200, 840 and 280 wrrds minute classes. Nathaniel Behrln, winner of th cup last year with a spee of 171 words a minute, was not present to lay to deft hi title.

He kept up the dizzy pace for five minute. Altnougn Sienerrapneni rapidly in nui-ibers. ther 1 scarcity of court reporters, accord- Ing to the association officials, and college courses now ar being established at Timple University Philadelphia; Simmons College-Boston, and on probablv will started at Columbia University. to win aaii a ghostly neet or water trail vu i uwuaj tnu xuurium nights during the Fiesta de la Laguna, the great Obapesla Week, sponsored by the Dons of Peralta. Indian war canoes, the broad sails ofhe Chinese Junks, the brilliantly colored flagship of CabrlUo, Spanish conquistador, the sturdy vessel of Sir Francis Drake, close-hauled and sombre Russian merchantmen, clean-cut, full-rigged Tankee clipper ships, will sail about Lake Merritt during two nights of festival wefsk.

In this water pageant will be unfolded the story of California on the water from the days of the Inaians down through the ages of Russian and Spanish occupation, to the coming of Sir Francis Drake horde of American argonauts who sailed around the horn in American clipper ships. WILL BE TRUE TO TIME. 'And those watercraft of the long ago are being produced true to their time. At an open-air, studio "on East Eleventh street near Fifth avenue Elizabeth Lopes, artist' and decorator, whose color work has attracted wide-spread attention since the Panama-Paclflo Exposition in 1915, is directing the construction of five of the fleet. Captain Frank Bell, a veteran builder of ships, is associated with Mrs.

Lopes, and is handling the construction work. A Spanish galleon, almost approaching in size the original vessels, brilliantly painted in copper, red, bronze and gold, Is being built It is a replica of Cabrlllo's flagship. Wide companion ways lead to the captain's quarters on the upper deck. Giant lanterns will be suspended from standards front and aft A Russian merchantman, a Chinese junk, an Indian war canoe and an American clipper ship are under construction at the Lopes studio. Mrs.

Lopes received the highest award at theflfPanama-Paclflo International Exposition for her decorative work. For years past she has handled decorative effeots at the annual automobile show. WILL BRING OUT COLORING. The water pageant will sail on darkened waters and against the night sky. The only illumination will be on the vessels themselves.

This is being so arranged that it will bring out in high relief the wonder. colorings of the craft. In all there will be more than 0 vessels In the. lake pageant Fully 400 people will be needed to man the fleet. Included in the pageant will be four great allegorical floats symbolical of the past and the future.

There will be Father Neptunes float, the barge of the King and Queen of Obapesla. and other crafts not yet named. The fifth annual dahlia and autumn flower show of the Alameda County Floral Society will be held at" the Hotel Oakland, three days during Obapesla week, beginning Sunday, September 28, and closing Tuesday night, September 26. One of the outstanding features of the show will be the display of colors appropriate to the Dons of Peralta, red, yellow and blue. A special sliver trophy will be awarded by the Dons for the best display In this exhibit.

San Qtfentin prison and the Alameda county infirmary will have pedal exhibits. ThR event is under the auspices and sponsorship of the Dons of Peralta. Richmond Will Take Part in S. F. Parade RICHMOND, Sept 8.

Members of Richmond Parlor No. 217, Native Sons of the Golden West, will celebrate In a body tomorrow with the remainder of Contra Costa county by Joining the parade in San Francisco. A. J. Summers of Richmond ar- lor is handling the delegation from thfi inwr end nt ih xnnntv t.

floats already have been prepared. 1 These depict" present day activities or tnis county and several vehicles of pony express days have been put into shape to Join the, parade. Japan will construct a large hydro-electric plant on the Shanono river. An overland telegraph line from England to India is being established. STBS ft smallest of words "No" was not AN EARLY DAY SABBATH IN OAKLAND By REV.

SAMUEL B. BELL. (Contributed by. Oakland Pioneers, No. 112) means coming from San.

Fran Bank Clerk Given Term for Forgery BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. t. Ae cused of 2S torgerle involving" t840, Thomas Barnett, bank clerk, was sentenced by Superior Judg Louderback today to serve an Indeterminate sentence of on to fourteen year In Sa Quentln. It is said that Barnett first got into trouble in 1918 In Portland. -where he was short 185,009, whil employed as clerk in a bank.

Th affair was hushed up. In lilt was In the foreign department of the Crocker National Bank and later became secretary of th Nav 7.7? THREE NEGROES SERVED WITH. It should be of Interest to the reading public to know that there were three negro men who served with the Pony Express. in' Pioneer days. They were required to take the oath the same as the white men who served the company.

These men were James Frances of San Francisco, who had charge of the horses at Sumwiett, California, and at another time he cared for them at the "End of The Trail" in Sacramento. Another man was George Monroe, who carried the mall from Merced to Mariposa, and William Robinson, who carriel it from Stockton to the mines. One of the avenues of expression of race pride and progress of -the negto race is through their lodges ant) churches. During the past two weeks they have been holding conventions In various parts of the United States and many negroes from California have gone to these affairs as delegates, returning with honers Among gatherings of this kind was the Twenty-fourth annual grand lodge session of the Im proved Benevolent Order of Ek of the World, which convened in Chicago last week. The National Baptist convention, the largest organization of the negro race in America, Is being held In Lps.

Angeles. This convention was to have met in this city last year, but owing to the railroad strike, It was changed All the negro pastors of the bay cities that possibly could have gone to the convention, except "Rev. Pryor, who reports.that his church. Fifteenth street A. M.

will hold a series of musicales and a pageant of nations during the next two weeks before the annual California conference, which will convene in Los Angeles September 26, Bishop Benjamin F. Lee presiding. He is the Sonior Bishop of the A. M. E.

church. Sheriff's Secretary Married at San Luis Word was received here yesterday that Miss Hazel Riley, for several years secretary to Sheriff Barnet, is on her honeymoon, having been married last week at San Luis Obispo to George McDermott, a Berkeley business man. Mis Riley left Oakland last Monday on her annual vacation. Sheriff Barnet received a letter from San Luis Obispo today, in which Miss Liley told of her marriage. Mias Riley and McDermott were accompanied by Miss Riley's sister, Mrs.

Edward Hlrsch, who was present at their wedding which took place in the old mission. TIM WarM't lft MM Hm DRUMS All kinds and all prices Professional trap outfits as low as $35. 81 Term ot 11.00 weekly Send for Catalogue am Address Open Eveninge 575 Fourteenth St. OAKLAND 250 Stockton St. AIV FRANCISCO XPRESS Laughlin said, indicates that tain agents in San Francisco who are acting as attorneys and Interpreters in obtaining clearance papers for their alien clients, were encouraging taxpayers, especially foreigners, to make false statements upon their application for clearance papers.

This investigation win l)e conttn-1 ued, said Mclughlln, and, where sufficient evidence has been obtained these agents will be pros-eouted for conspiring te evade the Income tax laws. From the evidence already collected it has been shown that many aliens on the eve of their departure from the United States have made false affidavits at the internal revenue office in order to secure the necessary papers that will enable to obtain a passport. The list of offenders is being carefully watched and checked and warrants for arrest will be obtained where sufficient evidence for conviction develops. The Internal Revenue Bureau will prosecute every alien who attempts to make an undesstate-ment of his income tax return and similar proceedings will be directed against agents who conspire with olients in their efforts to evade the Income tax law, said Collector McLaughlin today. The third quarterly Installment of federal income taxes are due and payable at the office of the collector of Internal revenue or before next Saturday.

TIE PUBLIC LIBRARY Mrs-Myrtle Fleberling, 604 East Eighth street, has been appointed library director take the place of Mrs. Ida Preston, whose term has expired. It was announ'ed to day. She was appointed at the Inst! patioa of Mayor John L. Davie and Commissioner Moorehead.

The sum of $300,000 has been allotted or expenditure for libra ries, art galleries, museums and similar purposes, throughout the city of Oakland. By her appolnt-' ment, Mrs. Fleberling becomes a member of a committee of five which tas charge of the work or allotting spportlonme of this sum throughout the city. Mrs. Fleberling Is president of the Franklin Parent-Teacher as-Hoclatlon and a member of the Vast Oakland Organization, a pr6mi-nent clvlo improvement body ot that section of the city.

Among the important projects which dome within the scope of the $300,000 allotment is the museum and collection of wild animals and other soeclmens collected by H. A. Snow, African -plorer. American Legion To Endow Chair Of Americanism BERKELEY, Sept, I. Plana for the raising of $150,000 to support a professorship at the University of California has been provided for in a resolution adopted by the American Legion of fnll'nrnTa.

Thla chair will -'have intimate relations with the university departments of political science, history and education, lo one of which departments it probably will be attached. Besides giving lectures and courses dealing with the philosophy and practice of American citizenship, the holder of the new chair would be an authority and consultant on matters concerned with the Americanization of foreigners. The resolution as adopted was framed by Captain J. K. isk, of Berkeley Post, American Legion.

As originator of th Idea of a chair of "Americanism" under Legion endowment, he has been active in its realization. Harvey Sails Back To His London Post by nrTEBifiTiawat irewg bexttcx LXSSVD WIRE TO TBIBUXE. NEW YORK, Sept. George. Harvey, 'American ambassador to Great left for England today on the Leviathan He denied that he had resigned.

Lwill H. Hays, former chairman of the Republican national commutes. I was also a passenger. Ever-Stick Suction Plates with Trubyte Teeth $15 IS BE NEW DIRECTOR OF people were sitting in the stalls of a theater watching a performance of "Getting Married." The young man suddenly held out his program to the girl, and, indicating the title with his forefinger, said, "How about It?" She replied "Righto! It would be a rag, wouldn't it And the proposal and acceptance were accomplished. NO FERVID AVOWALS.

This probably is a fair sample of the modern proposal. Just compare It witfl the fervid declarations of Victorian days, and you will realize how far we have'decllned in the art of the proposal. Nowadays things are taken so much more for granted. The modern young man does noi reveal his passion until he Is pretty sure it will be reciprocated, and by the time things have got to such a stage between him and the girl of his choice that a proposal Is no longer necessary. The modern girl very' rarely en- Joys the thrill of hearing an unexpected declaration of lov.

Nowadays, when a man his love for a girl Into words, it can be taken for granted that she has been aware of It for some time, and has her answer ready beforehand. From the woman's point of view. the passing of the proposal is regrettable. For one thing, a girl, in the days of the proposal exercised a much wider range of selec tion. It was nothing out of th ordinary for a Victorian girl of no great personal or physical charm to receive half a dozen oners or marriage.

If the youn man of the Victorian period thought a girl would make a suitable wife he did not hesitate to tell ber so. FEWER OFFERS MADE. Nowadays many a really charm- In girl only receives one offer of marriage. Modern youi.g men do not take plunges, they prefer to wada slowly out Into the current that llows down to the perilous sea of matrimony. The modern girl often becomes engaged with the uneasy feeling that she has not chosen: Instead, It Is she who hs been selected.

Somewhere among her eligible male acquaintances there may be others who loved. but let the opportunity of telling their love slip by. In the past a girl who had received an offer of marriage took care to bring her other possible suitors up to the proposal point before she made her final choice. Today woman enjoys many liberties unknown to her sex forty years ago, but liberty of choice where men are concerned is not one of them. In the days when man proposed and woman disposed she could and choose to a far greater extent than she does today.

Approximately 400 gss company officials and representatives of the leading Paclflo coast public service corporations will meet at Del Monte. September ll to j. in the thirtieth annual convention of the Pacific Coast Gas As sociation. Delegates will be pres ent from all of the leading coast cities. Honolulu and Vancouver, B.

will be represented. Most of the delegates and their wives will arrive at Del Mont Monday 10, which Is registration day. The convention proper will formally open on the morning of Sept. 11. under direction of Franlkin 8.

Wade, president of the Paciflc'Coast'Gas Association. Thursday afternoon E. W. Hodges, auditor of the Pacific Gas ft Electric Corporation of San Francisco, will preside over the session of accounting section. Speakers will be E.

G. Campbell and William Evans, of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Wednesday's program will be devoted entirely to the session of technical branch of the association under the chairmanship of of the Portland Gas and Coke E. L. Hall, general superintendent Company.

On Thursday the commercial section will meet under the chairT manship of H. M. Crawford, manager of sales, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco. "Developing Men for the Gas Industry" will be discussed by James Lynch, and A. L.

Crane of the San Francisco Furniture Exchange will speak on "Creating a for Gas." The after noon session will be In charge of M. R. Thompson, Wrinkle editor, and John Clements. Experience The annuar-aauet ofthe association will be "held Thursday night. $1000 Reward Out For Bandit Capture BAN FRANCISCO.

Tha Market Street Railway company today offered a reward of $1000 for the arrest of the bandits who held up their offices at (S Sutter street Thursday afternoon. An additional reward was promised by President Charles N. Black for thevecovery of any portion of the 15000 taken. Two clerks were beaten np by the robber In the holdup. 'A new kind ef ants are raising havoe with the flower industry ef ,4 Th saloon was know in anolent Pompeii, recent tfaoavatioa Ala- 400 TO A TEND CONVENTION found in the statute in the laws of California, so that it read, "That houses of ill-repute, or for fandangoes, should be allowed," etc.

BERMETREALTY ACTIVE TO MEET BERKELEY, Sept. 8. From all quarters have come' reports that people are flocking to Berkeley as never before, says the weekly summary of the Berkeley Realty Board, Issued today. As againHt an August building total of $620,435, the realty brokers report sales "tfffpToxlmatlng upwards of $325,000 with the small real estate offices selling in proportion to the larger ones. In the majority of real estate sales, according to the report, homes were sold and further significance is added due to the fact that the vast majority of the purT chases were made by recent arrivals In Berkeley, coming tcJ settle In the city permanently.

The report of the water company further bears out the testimony of the growing popularity of the East-bay by revealing that families from 21 states and 48 California cities settled in Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and Richmond during the month of August, Just past. In Berkeley, alone, new resi dents came from seven states snd fifteen cities in California. A report from the Berkeley postoflice fur-; ther reveals the development in Berkeley, postmaster a. a. Berry discloses that during August a noticeable increase in postofflce business was made over the corresponding month the year before.

This is Important, the realty board summary recites, as the general growth of business can be determined with the postofflce receipts as a criterion. Building Inspector. Robert Grelg's report on August activities shows an Increase of $84,135 over the-same month last year. The August building brings the total for the year up to $4,635,919. Probably the most imporum structure for which a permit was tnkeri out was the University Ma sonic clubhouse, calling for an out lay of $77,875.

Wife Seeks Divorce And $250 Monthly Asking a restraining order tying up her husband's interest in the Buckskin Mine, near Wlrftiemucca. Nevada, and cash in Nevada and California banks. Geneva B. Al-mind filed suit yesterday for divorce in superior court from An ders Almlnd. mining engineer.

Mr. Almlnrt charges cruelty, al leging that her husband cuisud her freiliently. She als) a.lego seruon and lauure to p.ovi.ie. asks 12S0 a month alimony. Crowns.

Brldgo Work, Extracting, FUllnga, X-Ray Pictures Gem Given NEW RESIDENTS I I I DR. 12tt Over Note: The following, is a tlon of a letter, printed in a looal paper, ii, 1892, being written by Rev. Samuel B. Bell, pastor of the first Protestant church in Oakland. He came here In 1852, established and for several years filled the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church, then located at the northwest corner of Sixth and Harrison streets, his residence adjoining the same.

"My first Sabbath in Oakland had some most peculiar, and to my Eastern training, shocking features. Don Peralta, a magnificent physical man, who claimed the site fof Oakland and the surrounding country, lived in the oia canrornia style, half way from the bay to the foothills. A large dwelling; sometimes, Some of them with three or four generations under the same roof, together with sufficient cabins filled with servants, herders (vaque. ros), Indians and others, making quite a small So many were there that Don Peralta had a priest and a chapel set apart to accommodate the peligious wants Lof a vast household. "On my first Sabbath thS California Mexicans had a "chicken dispute" a rooster battle.

One churchman had his choicest game fowl entered as one of the chlefest fighters. It was a long mill uiuuujr Jiicti ji, uvi uu. wr of the feathered and spurred warriors lay dead upon the field. But the fowl, of the pastor was the conquering hero, and on his exploits the priest had won much money, and he, was carried home in triumph with his pet fowl under his arm. "The very same afternoon there was a grand balloon ascension, most of the parties who furnished rr See Mondat-A Amission Monday OAKLAND JMIJ SI0MMM1S a Cisco.

In some way a boy got car ried aloft fastened to the balloon. Away into the upper air he sailed far aloft in a northwesterly direction. He landed not far from Peta-luma, safe and sound. He was afterward brought down to San Francisco, where he became the hero of the hour. The largest theater was obtained in which to exhibit him.

It was more than crowded everybody wanted to look upon him. That was forty-one years ago. but have never heard one word about him since he had one renowned day an illustration of the coarse saying, "every dog has his day." "That selfsame Sabbath day was made still more notorious by having a rousing fandango in' the building of which I have spoken the largest' in the city. So full was it that it had an "overflow" fandango in a house neaHat hand. So great became the furore that free fight was inaugurated in which an unfortunate Mexican was stabbed to death and others severely wounded.

"Here may not be an appropriate place to mention the sad fact that in the charter of the city, in those sections providing for public offices, pursuits and entertainments, it was provided that no houses oi ill-repute or for fandangoes, or for unlicensed sale of strong drink, or for their several uses on the Sabbath day should be allowed, et all. But some interested and unscrupulously shrewd lobbyist, who "knew the ropes," managed to get such access to the bill and to the enrolling, engrossing and recording clerks of the Legislature ana it was even intimated to the Governor himself so that the ver Day tional Commercial Company, whlca post he held until 1921. The polic say that he has been ever since by his forging operation. 0 La Mondiale Piano Accordions $250 Sold on TERMS Lt Mondial Accordions ar second, to none, la plain words they are the best made. The reeds used are hand, made, hand turned and of the) I finest Swedish.

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