The herald., 1898-02-23
RHEUMATISM

Salt Lake Railroad" He believed that the
beginning of the harbor work at San Pedro
would be the driving Of the first spike In
| the road that will connect this section with
Salt Lake City. He read the following tele-
gram from Washington, received In the
afternoon:
| Hon. T. E. Gibbon, Los Angeles:
My thanks to the chamber OF commerce
| for invitation 10 banquet tonight Con-
gratulations over success of San PEDRO
harbor. To Senator White in remarka-
BILE degree belongs the credit for tnis
splendid victory, by the people of Califor-
mia, throughout the long years or struggle
surrounded by doubts and beseu by diffi-
culties. Senator White in his matchless
leadership never faltered. His four days
of memorable debate upon his minority re-
port in the United States senate stands a
monument to his ability his steadfastness
and his fidelity to the people of California.
r. c. KERENS.
The greatest guarantee we could have
for the Salt Lake railroad was the telegram
received yesterday by the chamber OF COM
merce. Mr.. Gibbon believed that If the San
Pedro harbor improvements were carried
out, we would not be the second, but alb
solutely the first maritime city on the
Pacific coast. He compared the facilities
existing at the harbors of San Diego and
San Francisco with San Pedro. and de-
duced from the disadvantages under which
they labor and the advantages which the
latter port will present when completed,
that his proposition was correct. 1t was not
an unreasonable idea to say that the Salt
Lake road, with its facilities of transporta-
ton and outlets, would make 1t the favor
lite with the commercial classes.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The last toast. 1.-The Chamber of Com
merce,' was responded to by w. c. Pat
terson, who said that the chamber of COM
merce needs no encomium. Here it stands.
monument to the enterprise of the most
enterprising people of the continent. From
a small beginning, 1t had outgrown the
ideals of its sponsors, the ambition of its
founders. 1t had become recognized au-
thority in all matters pertaining to the
possibilities of Southern California. The
chamber of commerce exhibit at Hamburg
gave Continental Europe taste of our
satisfying products. and it indicated how
an Industrious peasantry would infinitely
better its condition. were it to immigrate
to this region. which is so full of possibil-
tiles to the frugal and unslothful.
1t is preparing to show at Omaha dis
play which should attract hence large
numbers of the unfortunate people who
heretofore have known no better fate than
to linger upon the plains of the middle
west, or to shiver and die amid the bliz-
| yards of Minnesota and adjacent states.
| The chamber already has it's eye upon the
Paris exposition, and it will be untrue TO
it's traditions if it fails to have the best
location and the most attractive exhibit in
| the whole outfit.
In addition to what the chamber has al
ready done, 1t is ready to advocate more
vigorously than ever the construction of
| that proposed artery of commerce. the Mic
| aragua canal. of which our graceful ora
| tor has spoken so eloquently tonight. 1t is
| also eager. as soon as ''the signs are right,
| to lend hand in building Mr. Gibbons Salt
Lake railroad. The chamber of commerce
will not pause until Los Angeles has be-
come giant city, until our fertile lands
support a population as dense as may be
| found in the New England states
| When immigration is no longer desirable
when the chamber of commerce is no long
| er the conservator of material progress and
material development 1t must then be-
come the nucleus around which shall clus-
ter the more aesthetic exponents of uni
versal prosperity.