The herald., 1897-09-12
SAN PEDRO

SAN PEDRO, Sept. 11.-(Regular Corre-
spondence.) Twenty years ago, or less,
San Pedro was known as Fayal, a name
given 1t by Portuguese fishermen from the
old city of Fayal in the Azores Islands. The
bay has had three christenngs by Spanish
navigators. The first by Cabrillo, its dis
coverer, who named it Bahia de los Humos,
1.-The bay of smokes" the second by Wis
caino, who visited it in November, 1902, and
renamed 1t Ensenada de San Andres. and
last by Cabrera, who came later and gave
it the one by which it is now known.
Within the memory of many of its res
idents the name of the town was changed
from Fayal to that of the bay, San Pedro.
Then there were but five houses between
Timms point and Boschke's island. and
Capt. Timm's house was built on the hull
of an old vessel that had drifted ashore.
There were no houses on the hill, and the
surrounding hills were a sheep and cat
tie ranch, many leagues in extent.
cat low tide said son of the country
yet in middle life, II can remember how my
brother and 1 used to climb out over the
rocks to Deadman's island, which was
then much larger than it is now"
San Pedro was thriving little seaport
until the Southern Pacific company built
the long pier at Port Los Angeles and
drew away the shipping controlled by its
enormous interests. Since then it has been
waiting patiently for what it is entitled to
by nature and the development of the sur
rounding country, a harbor of refuge and
of commerce. Sooner or later it must come
to its own, though. mayhap, it may be
to another generation.
The harbor is the one idea that DOM
mates the mind of every resident of the
place, and he never for a moment loses
sight of the end and aim of his existence.
1t will be remembered that two of the
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Lem Brunson and Mr.. ]. McDermott, went
to the state of New York some time ago in
the interest of patent harness. which they
are having manufactured. During the
recent big parade of G. A. r. men they
were In Buffalo, and standing at a place
on the street where the parade came to a
sudden stop on account of the great JAM
they happened to be near the carriage
containing President Mckinley and Sec
retary Alger. This was the San Pedro
mans opportunity to spoil the secretary's
fun for that occasion at least. So, "screw-
ing his courage to the sticking place" Nc
Dermott called out loud enough to be heard:
"Give us some information about the San
Pedro harbor, Mr.. Alger." The secretary
started as though bomb had exploded
under his feet, looked around hurriedly.
then dropped his head. nor did he raise 1t
again until the procession moved on.
Even in Buffalo miles from the Pacific
coast, that wretched harbor had sudden
ly risen to confront him and dim the glory
of the day. This was learned from pri-
vate letter written home by Mr.. McDer-
mott. Bravo for the man from San Pedro!
George H. ePck of the San Pedro bank
has recently purchased a tract of land
containing 400 acres from the Bixy Land
company. 1t is said to be excellent farm
ing land and Mr.. Peck will subdivide it into
6O-acre tracts and place it upon the mar
ket.
The steam schooner, Capt Johnson ar
rived yesterday with 200 900 shingles for the
San Pedro Lumber company. She will
leave today to discharge the remainder of
her cargo at Port Los Angeles.
The Seaside Social club, composed of
leading young people of the town. will
give dancing party this evening at Swim
ford's hall. The music will be furnished
by Schonemans orchestra of Los Angeles.
The Sunday school of the NJ. e. church
had a pleasant picnic on Wednesday out
at the German settlement
E. B. Scott. editor of the San Pedro
Times. had the misfortune to sprain his
knee badly on the occasion of the above
picnic, from which he is unable to attend
to business.
Will Nicholson and c. R. Sumner have
been surveying the bend in the outer harbor
belonging to "Crawfish George" from
which 1t is surmised that it has been or
VIII be transferred to more important
ownership. "Crawfish George" has been
a resident of the bend twenty years.
c. G. Miller, a resident of San Pedro and
Wilmington for the past thirty years died
on Monday at Serena. Santa Barbara coun-
ty. He leaves widow and three children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks Brentner have re-
turned from bridal trip to San Jacinto.
They will make teir home in San Pedro.
The Coos Bay arrived in port on Thurs
day from San Francisco with passengers
and freight.
Mrs. j. w. Davis attended a meeting of
the w. c. T. U. in Los Angeles this week.
Rev. E. B. Green, presiding elder of the
Los Angeles district. was in San Pedro on
Wednesday, arranging for the fourth quar-
terly meeting of the NJ. E. church.
The Los Angeles Record has attached the
office of the American for a debt of 81. 30
alleged to be due them for papers offered
on subscription with the San Pedro paper
The publisher claims that collections he
ing slow, he rendered the Record COM
pany part of the money. which they re-
fused and attached his property for the
entire amount.
Mr. and Mrs. Noble of Dunsmuir visited
Mrs. Spar, Mrs. Mobiles mother. a few
days last week.
The fishing boat Alpha took the en-
ployes of the Southern California Canning
company on picnic to Portuguese Bend
Admission day.
The order of Good Templars will give a
literary and musical entertainment in their
hall on Monday evening. An exhibition of
ventriloquism and character sketches will
be given by local talent.
A parlor meeting of the W. c. T. U. was
held on Tuesday at the residence of Mrs
Cline. which was largely attended An
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