Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
Resolve to Grant No
Concessions in
the Bay
officials Dpnounce the
Hy>terical Efforts
of YellOws
Board Places Itself on Record as
Being Opposed to Allowing Any
Concessions to Individual
or Corporation

'hesOiNeUs lnHt II ~ tne sense Oi the
board of trustees of the city of San
Pedro that no concessions in the outer
harbOr of San Pedro be granted to any
individual, firm or corporation"
With this resolution the trustees of
San Pedro last night placed themselves
on record as opposed to giving the 12S
feet of harbor frontage to either the
Southern Pacific, Home Dock & Ware
house Co. or the Imperial Investment
Co. The trustees were impelled to take
this action by the public sentiment that
has been aroused in San Pedro against
granting the public harbor rights to any
of the corporations that have been de-
manding a franchise of the board of
trustees.
Before the meeting of the trsutees last
evening a large mass meeting was held
in the assembly hall where the trustees
dliberate. The hall was packed. Every
seat was occupied. The aisles were
filled with men standing on tiptoe and
looking over each others shoulders and
the great crowd overflowed into the
hall and the steps outside. This meet
ing was called for the purpose of for
mulating the line of action that the
citizens of San Pedro wished the trus-
tees to take. 1t was the people dictat-
ing to other public servants, the trus-
tees
Pass a Few Bouquets
At this meeting City Clerk Stieglitz
read lengthy resolutions as an express
sion of the opinion of the people of San
Pedro. Near the end of the resolutions
was a clause petitioning the board of
trustees to appoint committee to con-
fer with similar committee to be ap-
pointed by the Los Angeles chamber of
commerce to investigate the demands
for harbor frontage and determine the
action to be taken. This committee was
to report its findings to the board of
trustees. The resolutions first read the
report was to be submitted in two
weeks. but some ardent admirer Of the
trustees moved that they be amended
to read lat the pleasure of the board
as a further expression of confidence in
these elected officials.
This petition, with laudatory para
graphs for each trustee, was the main
feature of the resolutions but the
greater part of the closely typewriter
four pages was devoted to denouncing
the Los Angeles Examiner for it's Off
cious action in trying to tell the citizens
of San, Pedro what they should say to
their trustees. In these resolutions the
Examiner was denounced as a mali
cous liar, and the newspapers were
called upon to tell the world how the
Examiner has lied They declared the
trustees had been maligned and insulted
without cause, that the representations
appearing in the Examiner to the effect
that the piece of harbor frontage in dis
puts was all that was left for free
dockage was pure fabrication, as San
Pedro had not made any grants of the
outer harbor whatever, except conceS-
sions to Miner and Huntington to fill
up the shoals. But most vigorously was
the Examiner denounced for its at
tempted interference in the conduct OF
San Pedro's municipal affairs.
Cheer the Trustees
These resolutions were adopted by the
mass meeting without a dissenting vote
and San Pedro's opinion of the Exam
ner is on record In this way
These resolutions spoke most highly
of every member of the board. They
were called honest, conscientious Off
cials with only the city's best good at
heart. This seemed to please a num-
ber of persons present and each trus-
tees name was received with cheers.
A committee was appointed to draw
up resolutions to present to the board
VI lIuSlSSo NliSll lnSy SilOuiu BdlleT IOI
the regular session. City Clerk Steig~
lltz was named as chairman of this
committee 1t was not noticed that the
members of this committee gathered in
any particular spot to discuss these
resolutions and 1t was feared that the
ahow of the evening would go off with
ane of the scenes missing.
At O'Clock the mass meeting ad-
journed and Immediately afterward "a
members of the chamber of commerce
OF Los Angeles who had gone to San
Pedro i'm a special car made their way
through the packed throng and took
places inside the railing that enclosed
the board Of trustees. Among them
We're w. j. Washburn, Will d. Steph-
ems, w. #. Gurley. Niles Pease r. @.
Story, Frank NJ. Coulter and others
equally prominent. They had gone
there with the intention of presenting
resolutions that had been passed by the
executive committee of the chamber of
commerce, asking the trustees to re-
C'r-''-rel r'~~" two.