Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
THIRD
RAIL FIGHT"
MAYOR HARPER TO ASK COUNCIL
TO ACT
ANNOUNCES INTENTION AT HoL-
LYWooD BANQUET
Security Land and Loan Company
Gives Feast In Honor of
Pacific Sugar Corr
poratlon

"On Monday morning am going to send
a message to the council asking that some
compromise be made with the Los Ange-
les-Pacific railroad in the matter of the
third rail-" said Mayor A c. Harper last
night in speech at banquet given by
the Security Land and Loan company to
the Pacific Sugar company at the Hotel
Hollywood.
! About two hundred guests sat down 70
partake of a menu the articles composing
which were for the most part grown Mt
Corcoran, the home of the sugar company.
| At the plate of each guest there was q
sample of the sugar in a miniature sack,
presented by the Pacific Sugar corpora
tion of Corcoran and Visalia.
After the last course had been cleared
away Judge M. r. King of Ocean Park,
POSTMASTER of the evening, welcomed the
guests in lively speech In light, vein. lie
began by asking What is the greatest
need of Southern California today?' and
his answer was: "a general revival along
industrial lines"
There was a time when this country
had only the sunshine, climate ana the
flowers, which, with the sea ana the
foothills. formed the chief assets. Then
came the man who does things, and ne
is yet the man we need.
'The man who does nothing often does
great harm. What we need are men who
are producers-men of ability, enterprise
and action. If Los Angeles is to become
the metropolis of the Pacific coast, which
she can, we must be up and doing.
Must Lead
california stands twenty-first in pop
ulation, fourteenth in agriculture and
twelfth in manufactures, and this is not
satisfactory. What we want is to LEAD
and not to follow any other sttae.
with the coming of the Owens river
water Los Angeles and the contiguous
country will grow as 1t never grew pc
fore. This is a celebration for the Pa
cific Sugar corporation, which is COM
posed of Los Angeles men with Los An
geles capital, and we invite you to cele-
brate with US.
There is always satisfaction in believ-
ing that a public office is not always a
private snap, and 1 am gratified tonight
to be able to introduce to you, gentle-
men. a man of whom 1 am sure this can
well be said, Hon. A Z. Harper mayor
of Los Angeles"
II was fully minute before the
mayor could be heard above the tre-
mendous outburst of applause, put
when he could make himself heard he
began with a touching tribute to the
memory of County Assessor Ben Il.
Ward, who died Friday night.
He said in part:
Before 1 go further 1 want to speak
n word of one who has been my friend
and neighbor for twenty or twenty-five
years, and who was called away last
night Ben Ward, the most faithful as
SCISSOR the county ever had.
''I knew him for nearly quarter of
century in business, in politics ana IN
religion. He was staunch Repupn-
can and I am a Democrat, but we never
clashed on that score. Ben was true
friend and a sincere man, and l am
proud to say that / was a friend of his.
Record VIII Stand
HE made record that we can tell
our children of in the days to come
IF all of our citizens had a character
like Ben Wards the country would
flourish"
There was a moment of intense sill
ence as the mayor paused before
launching into the topic which he SAID
he considered of vital Importance to
the welfare of the city.
whenever a financial depression comes
over the land, something always comes to
the aid of Los Angeles. Just now when
there is a whispering of tightness in
financial matters, there is extended to our
city funds sufficient to further the most
cherished of enterprises-the Owens river
project.
"For the money we shall have to go
east. but the eastern money for another
| great enterprise is already ours II we DO
| not stand in the way.
81 do not wish to criticize any of the
city officials, but in the matter of the
| third rail controversy, in which the city
has been victorious, think there is room
for compromise. and on Monday morning
shall send to the city council mes
sage asking that some agreement be
| reached with the Los Angeles-Pacifc
Railway company, so that the work of
iaving the third rail can proceed, and
| then we can call their buff and see If
they have the millions to spend which
they have been telling us about think
| they have"
Otis Follows
| Mayor Harper was followed by Cen
| eral II. G.. Otis, who read some instructive
figures of the beet sugar industry, stat
| ing:
attempts were made in Philadelphia
| in 1880 and Massachusetts in 1841 to first
establish the beet sugar industry in the
United States. There were also later
efforts in this direction in Illinois, Wis
| consin and California between 1868 and
1876. To California, however, belongs the
credit after a long period of patient,
| unprOAtaDle prOuuCIlOn, Oh dcnleNlHB inc
first success In beet sugar making in 1870.
"It took twenty years, 1880 to 1900, for
the annual product to reach $7,323,S57 in
value. an increase of $7,000,000 while in
the five years, 1900 to 1905, the increase
was SIT, 100000, with the other conditions
in proportion. In 1905 there were forty
establishments each of which reported
a capital greater than was jointly pos
sessed by the four establishments in
1880.
Factory Largest
1.-THE oldest successful beet sugar fac
tory in the United States is located in
California, and in this state (Oxnard) is
also the largest sugar factory in this
country, and one of the largest in the
world. California factories that suffered
from lack of rainfall have had to resort
to irrigation.
"The utilization of by-products is one
of the leading factors in the contest in
all parts of the world between cane and
beets as a source Of sugar. In several of
the states, California included, where for