The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-15
Deputies and Employees of the
Banning Company Hold
the Shore.
TWO HOURS OF aUARRELING
The Invaders Refuse to Pay Tolls
and Attempt TO Pass the
Guard.

AVALON. CATALINA ISLAND. July IA
'Repel invaders" was the cry that echoed
through Avalon streets this afternoon
when the yacht Dawn from Long Beach.
with over thirty passengers on board,
sailed into the bay, with all her canvas
floating TO the breeze, cast anchor and
started her rowboat ashore, manned by
several men. The Long Beach minister,
the editor and the schooImaster were on
board. A company of deputies, headed by
Messrs. Banning and Lowe and followed
by crowd of employees of the Banning
Company, rushed TO the point toward
which the rowboat was headed, near the
bathhouse. A great throng OF men,
women. children and dogs joined in the
general rush on shore, and by the time the
skiffs keel grated on the pebbles big re-
ception committee was awaiting it.
Before landing the spokesman of the
party, Professor J. J. Morgan, principal OF
the Covina School, hailed out to know
who was in authority. F. II. Lowe called
back, "HereT' and then the big pro-
lessor sang out:
1--WE are a party of tourists, and we
want 10 come ashore for couple Of hours
and look about"
Judge Banning replied that the COM
pany did not deny their right to land to
high-water mark, but they could not
cross the strip of land between that and
the public highway, as it was private
property, unless they paid the regular
transportation fee to the Wilmington
Transportation Company. There was a
momentary consultation between the BEL
Igerent-looking pedagogue and the editor
OF the Long Beach Eye-his right bower
and then the skin was pushed ashore and
the party landed on the beach.
The company OF deputies closed in
around them to prevent their going
beyond high-waier mark, and the contro-
versy, which lasted over two hours, began.
Dogged constantly by the deputies and
their assistants, the gang OF trespassers
paced up and down the pebbiy beach,
arguing the question. Signals between
those On shore and the passengers on
board the yacht were constantly inter-
changed, and presently three other skiffs
bearing passengers from the Dawn APP
preached the shore.
The Banning Company, however, was
prepared TO cope with the number, for it
seemed that nearly every one of the army
OF employees was on hand to lend assist
ance. Even the colored walters and clerks
from the Metropole were there, and SIN
gle oeilooy was LETT In the big hostelry to
hold it down while the entire island popu-
lstion focked TO the beach. At one time
Professor Morgan attempted to crowd past
the resisting crowd, but was prom pity
pushed back to high-water mark.
For two hours the would be visitors
paced the pebbly beach of the hostile
shore, and then they gave it up and, NUT
tering vows OF vengeance, departed to
their yacht, hoisted their sails and sped
away.
The members OF the party were Cap
tain o. Howorth, commander of the
yacht; F. II. Thatcher, E. E. Armour, NJ.
NJ. Dewey, wife and son; Misses Ella
Phillips. Leola Whitfield, Hattie Eliot,
Nellie Beckett, Mrs. Whitfield OF Pomona;
Rev. w. P. Howorth, Miss Lowe, Horace
Overton, r. NJ. Lynn, NJ. 4. Hall, Long
Beach; James Shields and wife, S. J..
Mathes, Los Angeles; Professor ]. ]. Nor
gan, wife and son, Covina; George f.
Black, Santa Ana; Charles A. Garrett, the
Misses Garrett, Des Moines, Iowa. Messrs.
Ward, Rogers and jameson, boatmen.
1t is rumored this evening that another
yacht, the Santa Barbara, which has been
towering about the island for several DAYS,
is likely TO attempt landing during the
night.