The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1893-05-14
The Dig arhdrf

but few finishing touches, such as
putting up q platform scale for trains,
bunker for ships to discharge into, and
q few minor details. The dock is over
5000 feat in lanekhy and has a depth Of
over 20 feet of water at it's outer
end. Nobody on this coast has
ever seen as long q wharf
or one IL It is as we'll built. To begin
with. when the thing was first mooted,
an expert on timber was sent to Puget
Sound to pick out the strongest, stout
est and straightest grained piliBg tim
Der that could be found for money. This
timber was shipped to San Pedro in this
county where there is an extensive es-
Enlistment for the purpose of infiltrat.
ing these piles with creosote. The
straighter the grain the more perfectly
this creosoting process can be effected.
Not only was this done with the piles
for the wharf, but the braces and cor
bells and. in fact. everything that salt
water could wet and thereby expose to
the ravages OF the teredo or limnoria,
was coated with the same wood-preserv-
ing material. When sufficient supply
of this timber had been secured, to that
any delay was impossible, the Southern
Pacific folks lit down upon the spot
with big army of men and finished it
up in less than seven months, There
has never been anything like it on the
coast and the payroll OF the employees
engaged in its construction from time to
time, must amount to a very large sum
OF money.
1t is twice as long as any wharf in
England snd2760 feet longer than the
great pier OF the Penninsular and ORR
entail steamship line at Melbourne. So
that nothing else can be said to be lin
it'' with Santa Monica. The piers at
Ironville, Ostend and other places along
the coast of the French channel, are
very long, but they are built solely for
pleasure purposes and have not the
slightest commercial significance. This
wharf, on the ether hand, has not only
a mile and q half of seat room and
promenade way for all OF 10000 people,
with seats interpreted at brief inter
walls, for the convenience OF invalids.
The steamship San Mateo, commando
ed by Captain Perks, and drawing 20
feet of water net, arrived at the new
pier on Thursday, and the whole town
Of Santa Monica turned out to welcome
her. Garlands of flowers were given to
the smoker egrimed firemen. by little
b ChtiAiC its bh0 btO yOuuE ihuIo5 VI bAiO
village bestowed roses and violets upon
the proprietors of the "tarry toplights
and to'gallant eyebrows" who had last
seen land on the bleak shores OF Van
couger's island. The old Jacks met
with welcome BETTING the occasion.
That was Santa Monica's day, par ex-
cellence.
Yesterday was Los Angeles's day
Feeling that 30 important an occasion
demanded real live turnout of business
people, Mr.. J. NJ. Crawley, assistant
passenger agent of the Southern Pacific,
sent invitations to the board OF trade
and the chamber of commerce to issue
tickets to their members and such other
citizens as they thought proper. Just
who came Mr.. Crawley did not not care,
80 long as he was notified in time to
. provide the car room sufficient for all.
Accordingly the special train OF ii cars
moved out OF the Arcade depot yester-
day at ! AS, laden with q strictly COM
mercial passenger list. The ride across
the Cienega and through the Palms was
comparatively devoid OF interest until
\ the great wharf was reached, and there
was the big black steamer With two coal
buckets in the air, discharQinQ coal at
the rate OF 1900 pounds per minute. The
train moved slowly down the wharf, and
coon was alongside the mammoth col
! Tier.
y The San Mateo, although under the