The herald., 1894-09-29
A GREAT CITY RMsRGING.

For now this long time past il has
been fashionable for the Los Angeles
Times to talk about the superiority oi
San Pedro to Santa Monica as the place
for deep sea harbor on the southern
coast. This kind of twaddls is simply
remarkable for its ceaseless iteration
in fact, we may claim that we have been
treated to q dsmnable iteration In this
line.
What are the facts?
time being. We shall embody many of
them in the Sunday issue of the HERALD,
in which we shall publish the report oi
the celebrated engineer, Mr.. E. s. Cor.
thell, who 10 one of the most distin-
guished specialists in his line in the
whole world. Mr.. Corthells exhaust We
report will speak for itself. and we shall
add some editorial comments founded
upon local experience to its luminous
exposition.
For the present we shall apply our
selves to an editorial which appeared in
the columns of our esteemed contempo-
rary, the Los Angeles Times, in it's issue
oil yesterday. OF course this article was
in line with the usual hebetudinous at
titudes of it's editor. Somebody or
other. early in the day, loaded up this
pnissant editorial person with the idea
that, somehow or other, he could spite
somebody or other by advocating the
claims of San Pedro as against those OF
Santa Monica. We utterly repudiate
ths idea that the engaging Dick Kerens
and the robust 8. B. Elkius, gentlemen
who are supposed to be largely interest
ed in the Terminal railway, have had
anything to do, by the profuse distribu-
tion OF stock, in the marked preference
Of the Times for San Pedro. God forbid
that we should insinuate anything that
we can't prove. But putting to one
side the motive Of the Times, in show
ing such an illogical preference for San
Pedro, and such a rabies against Santa
Monica, we shall simply apply ourselves
to the extract from the article from the
San Francisco Call, which our contem-
porary makes the basis for its usual in
antics.
Says the Gall. speaking OF the sp-
preaching visit of the subcommittee on
commerce to form an intelligent judg-
ment on the site for the location OF
deep sea harbor:
The two locations speak for them
selves, but there are other considera-
tions than those Of topography and
photography. The railroad will un-
doubtedly advance plausible argu-
ments that commercial connections will
As batter effected at Santa Mouica. The
committee shesld he sL---u u.h-s a.
commercial connections are essential to
the welfare not Of the people, but OF the
Southern Pacific. At Santa Monica it
can monopolze those oonnections-at
San Pedro it must share them with other
transportation agencies. That is the
case in o nutshell.
Now there is certainly an air OF great
wisdom about this utterance of the Call.
The writer most remarkably resembles
the individual Of whom Shakespeare
wrote
His face doth cream and mantle like stand
ing pond,
As who should say, ST am Sir Oracle, and when
l ope my mouth let no dog bark"
1t is singular what an interest the
newspapers, the boards OF trade and
cham bers OF commerce of San Francisco
take in having the right deep sea hsr-
Dor for Los Angeles. In our Sunday
issue we shall have much more to say
about this, with detailed references to
the official declarations of those bodies.
And how much they love us, these
people of San Francisco? How solici-
tous they would be to have Us make no
mistake as to just how We should gain
great eminence as city? Not for the
world would they have uH do anything
that would prevent as from attaining a
commercial equality with or supremacy
to themselves. It is the old story of
donG terentes over again-the old, old
story OF the Trojan horse. They calcu-
late greatly on our stupidity, and for
tunately they calculate in vain.
For every man OF sense knows that if
Santa Monica is selected as the place Tor
the deep sea harbor by the senate COM
mittse there will be city OF Los Angeles
reaching from here to the sea, and that
it will be the most unique and beautiful
city on the iootstool. with Santa Nj onica
as it's water front. 1t is sought to pre-
vent this ideal contamination by twad-
die about the Southern Pacific company
owning and controlling the Santa Mon
lea water front. This ia stuff and non
sense. The Southern Pacific railway
owns ten times as much OF the wate
front OF San Pedro as it does OF Santi
Monica. The Santa Fe road extends t.
Santa Monica; and the officials OF tn
Southern Pacific railway. from Mr.. @. z
Huntington, through all it's controllin
spirits, have repeatedly offered 10 Civ
} any other railway corporation equs
} privileges with ITSELF If the Unite
, States shall expend large sums OF none
: in creating a deep sea harbor at the cit
by the sea it goes without saying tina
the government will see to it that al
8 competing railways shall have an equs
: show before it spends cent.
= Meanwhile, there is one thing ths
nobody can deny, and thai is that tn
t whole trend OF the beautiful City OF tn
d Angels is towards Santa Monica. West
ward the tide OF empire holds its way
o in Los Angeles as in all growing citiel
SattIament ia creepinQ out tOwards tn