California has large contract for wide neck fruit jars

POSTOFFICE LARGE

ENOUGH FOR FUTURE

Boosters will Work for Building Suitable

for 100,000 Population

Secure for Long Beach a postoffice for a city of 100,000 population.

That was the boost watchward [sic] watch word at the regular meeting of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce this morning, and the officials of that body took time by the forelock in the attempt to get a large appropriation for a government building.

B. F. Tucker, Lynn Ballard and R. L. Bisby were selected as a special committee by President W. H. Reider to collect the proper data for submis­sion to the postoffice department and the Southern California congressional representatives for the success of this move.

In other words, so sure are the directors of the chamber that Long Beach will be able to boast of 100,000 population within a few years after the postoffice is built and ready for occupancy that they believe it would be a measure of economy on the part of the government to get ready for a city of that size.

The formulators of the movement point out that this city is now beyond the 30,000 population mark, that at the rate it is growing just double this figure will be reached by the time of the building of the government struc­ture, and that within a few' years after that, and while the postoffice is yet a new building, the population will have jumped to the tenth of a million mark.

The work of the committee will be­gin immediately, and when their task is completed, documents and data showing conclusively Long Beach's past and present growth and facts to support the predictions of a great future growth will be ready for submis­sion to the government officials.

These documents will be the larg­est bunch of Long Beach boost liter­ature that has ever been sent from this city. It is expected to bring about a materialization of the plan to obtain a government house for this city at a cost of not below 250,000.

Secretary Bisby read a letter to the directors from L. E. Behymer, the fa­mous Los Angeles impresario and producer, and lessee of the Auditorium theater in that city, disclosing the fret that he had taken up seriously the proportion of constructing a first-class theater in Long Beach.

Mr. Behymer is planning a chain of theaters in the livest and largest cities of the southern section of the state and has already made arrangements for a theater building in Pasadena. He hopes to immediately take up the matter of a Long Beach house, using the Pasadena and Los Angeles thea­ters as feeders for the local playhouse.

The theatrical magnate will prob­ably be invited to attend and be the principal speaker at a smoker to be given within the next three weeks for the active members of the chamber. This smoker will be held at the Ken­nebec cafeteria.

Mr. Behymer has asked that Col. Ed Brader, at one time the right-hand man of Savage, one of Americas greatest producers, also be invited, as he is now the chief lieutenant of Be­hymer, and will probably have active charge of the string of theaters.

"Inasmuch as the president of the United States has seen fit to issue a proclamation advising all Americans to beat it out of Mexico, I move that the secretary of this body also issue a proclamation inviting them to 'beat it' to Long Beach."

This little oratorical diffusion on the part of Judge Underwood as he sat quizzically gazing at a suspiciously colored bottle on the table in front of him aroused some merriment, but re­sulted in a unanimous passage of the motion.

Secretary Bisby reported on the con­dition of Long Beach's industries, showing that practically all of them are in a highly prosperous condition, and that the year 1913 would be a banner year for this city from the manufacturing standpoint.

He reported that the Southern Cali­fornia Glass Insulator company had obtained and was now working on a large contract for the manufacture of wide necked fruit jars for a Mr. Bloom, head of a million dollar corporation that packs and ships canned Califor­nia products to both foreign and domestic markets.

The company last year, through the adoption of the old style cans, lost nearly half a million dollars in the shipments sent to the Orient, but with the new style jars expects to eliminate this loss.

The insulator company, which has enlarged its plant for the purpose of facilitating the manufacture of these jars, has increased its working force to nearly 100 men and is reported to be working night and day.

The J. J. Foster Vinegar company of Long Beach, with a factory located at 611 West Anaheim street, reports the shipment of its product to nearly every city in Southern California. Mr. Foster, head of the concern, gave out bottles of his vinegar to every mem­ber of the board and received in turn a letter of thanks.