Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-22
LONG BEACH.
THE wharf PROJECT is BEING
AGITATED.
ress of the Terminal Roads Plans.
News Notes and Gossip.
Special Correspondence to the HrnA1p.I

Special Correspondence to the HERALD.
LONG BEACH, Feb. 21.
The proposed breakwater extending
east from Point Firmin which Chief
Engineer Gen. 7. L. Casey recommends
will, with the natural conformation of
the mainland, enclose large expanse
of smooth water, horseshoe shaped, with
Long Beach occupying the northeast toe
and San Pedro the southwest. This
breakwater will protect an immense area
of water and become the ideal resort of
the pleasure craft of the coast. Long
Beach is in it for keeps.
The largest wharf meeting yet held
was the one Tuesday night, the 10Th
inst. Pickles hall was packed, speeches
plentiful, enthusiasm unbounded and
such settled determination to succeed
manifested itself that opposition to the
project (if any will be cloves labor
lost"
The publicity given to the subject in
my Long Beach letters to the HERALD
has brought business men here from
San Bernardino and Orange counties,
besides the large interior cities of Los
Angeles county, with view of investing
in property and establishing stores and
other industries. Mark one Tor the
HERALD and Long Beach.
The Terminal is now hauling coal
| from the dock at Terminal island, a
vessel having arrived from British
Columbia loaded with that product for
them.
Mr.. B. F. Hilliker of Garden Grove
was here Monday with view of pur-
| chasing realty. Mr.. Hilliker said that
the cooperative beet sugar factory would
be built, and they were assured by the
Santa Fe company that they would run
their track through that section and
connect with the wharf at Long Beach.
Postmaster and Mrs. Van Dusen spent
couple of days here the early part of
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Pierce and Miss
Smead of Antelope valley were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Ellis this
week.
Mr.. R. J. Scott, father of DIR. M. H.
Williams, accompanied by Mrs. Scott
of Tacoma, WASH, will try the virtues
of our climate for while.
j. r. Seaman, I. Trashear and J. Ford
are here putting the finishing touches
on the Western Union telegraph poles.
Charles Fetterman, who has been at
Riverside several months, returned
home last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Choteau of Pasa-
dena spent couple of days here. They
enjoyed the hunting for small game and
put up at the Fetterman house.
Mr.. John Trevins of Los Angeles,
former engineer of the Long Beach ho-
| tel, cremated, is spending few days
here at his old home.
Billy Chapman of Los Angeles visited
the beach this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John johnson and
daughter of Lacona, Iowa, are here on a
] visit to their daughter and son-in. law,
I; Mr.. ]. and Clara Newton. Like all the
rest they are in love with Long Beach.
Grant Gilliland of University, and Mr..
H. Richards of Lawrence, Kan, were
visitors to the beach Thursday
"A cave in cesspool at the Hotel
Seabright, Friday morning, in which
Billy Settles, a young man, was at work
excavating, came near being fatal to
him. The pressure from the sand
caused the curbing to suddenly give
way, catching Billy and squeezing him
harder than would his best girl. Fortu-
nately for him tub broke the full force
of the cave and enabled his friends
above to extricate him. While being
considerably bruised it is believed his
| injuries are not serious.
The engineers of the Southern Pacific
railroad are expected here daily to lay
out the pipe line and locate the reser-
voir.
DIR. J. W. Wood, city health officer,
| rQnnrfc fhof tho 10 orfr hoo bo,,
petered out.
Mrs. j. w. Cambell, now of Los Ange-
les, lately of Cleveland, Ohio, accom-
| panied by Mrs. M. Dodsworth, of Los
| Angeles, spent several days at the Fet-
terman house here last week. The lady
declares this to be the most lovely spot
on earth.
w. H. Nash, of Los Angeles, visited
our city last week.
Mr.. w. w. Donnell, A. R. Greening
and Dick Mcknight came down to the
leap year ball Friday the 18th.
N. r. Miller, of Los Angeles, was
down on business couple of days last
| week.
DIR. George Pratt, of Springfield, Illi-
nois, is finding needed relaxation here
from an overplus of practice at home.
Mr.. Edmund Lockett, of Pasadena,
late city and school trustee here, came
down last Sunday.
Mr.. Tom Hays, superintendent of the
Long Beach Development company, re-
turned from Frisco last Saturday.
Warren Hopperstead, of Los Angeles,
was down to the leap year party.
r. P. Vanderburg returned from Iowa,
where he had been visiting, last Satur-
day.
Druggist M. G. Holman, of Long
Beach, who has been rusticating in
Downey for week, got home last Sun
day.
Mr.. Spurgeon Reilly, deputy county
school superintendent, spent couple
of days this week inspecting the schools
in the Wilmington district.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rich and daugh-
ter, Margaret, of Lebanon, Pa. George
T. Goodhue, Peter Marks. William
Grimes, of Cleveland, o.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Edmund Montgomery and two children,
of New YORK city; Theodore Kip, Miss
Agnes Drew, Mrs. Fanny Oldham and
John Hartwell, of Albany, N. Y, were
guests of the Fetterman house this
week.
Colonel and Mrs. Pitcher, OF Pasa-
dena, visited the beach Wednesday.
They will get in, 30 says Charlie
Thornburg of the Alamitos Land COM
Y,opv 1000 a,raa in Grain on that n1aco