Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-31

SUNS" ACCOUNT.
On the door of one of
the private cars OF the
Senatorial train are
these words, Truth Is
Mighty. Then Why
Lie F" and such appears
to be the motto OF Sem
ator Frye, Chairman of
The Committee on Har-
bors.
President ]. G. Fisher,
who accompanied the
senatorial Committee
to Los Angeles, re-
turned Saturday even
ing. the happiest man
in the lsnd.
1--WE left Los Angeles
for San Pedro about z
O'Clock In the morning.
and only remained
there about 10 min
utes. Senator Frye
stepped ont on the plat
form an looking
around said: Gentle
men, I don't believe
you have anything here
l want to see. Where
are your ships?"
General Briefly then
explained that the
southeasterly win d S
make shipping very in
convenient If not I'M
safe at this time of the
year.
"And do you wan
the Government tc
build q harbor where
six months out of the
year, ships have to pich
Ep their anchors and
run out to the island?'
said Senator Frye. LAS
near as / can make out
you propose to ask the
Government to create a
harbor for you almost
out of whole cloth. The
Lord has not given you
much to start with,
that's certain"
After a moment he
asked: "How much will
1t cost, do you esti-
mater"
about $1,000, 900,
was the answer.
Are you sure that
your whole country is
worth that much?"
asked the Senator. u
have had twenty years
Experience in examin'
ing harbors, and l know
that $4,000 600 often
megns 100000, 0oO,
and it probably would
in this case. You only
have two harbors on
this coast, and they are
Sau Francisco and San
Diego"
"Bnt San Diego has
no back country"
echoed a bystander.
"You may tell that to
tenderfeet," said Sen
ator Frye, "but l have
seen in San Diego what
l have not seen else
where. When l heard
of 125-pound water.
melons, 10-poun1 pota'
toes, ETC., in the East,
always said they were
california lies. San
Diego was the first and
on y,placs toundeceive
me"
Something was then
said by another by
ISLANDER about Los An
lgeles being twenty
miles from San Pedro
land 100 miles from
San Diego.
"True enough" said
1.-THE plaiu-spoken Sen
ator, but Los Angeles
lis a part of San Diego's
back country, and so ID
the territory for many
miles to the north OF
you, and the same il
true of the country far
to the east aud north
east, including Arizo.
ma"
The Maine statesman
then praised San Di
,ego's harbor as one oil
the finest sheets of wa
ter that he had ever
seen, and contrasted II
with San Pedro, which
had nothing to recon-
mend 1t as q harbor,
and where only one
vessel, the steamer
Santa Rosa, was lying
out several miles from
the shore, while a mum
Der of ships were load
ing snd unloading at
San Diego,
Where the mistake
les" said Mr. Frye, lis
in your having butt
your greatest city in a
locality where no nat
ural harbor exists.
Now. San Diego has a
good harbor. You
ought to move down
there. "
Mr.. Fisher. who heard
all of the above and
much more, is satisfied
If San Diego is awake
an appropriation can
be secured for this har.
Dor. In proof of hi
belief he quotes Sen
ator Frye, who said tC
the Los Angeles delega
ton:
at Is the duty of the
Government to protect
and improve harbors
mot to build them"
'emarked the other
pleasure to know
remarks we're only
quite willing to &C
station Of them. II
after Gov. Stanford
clear and forcible