Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-09
TO MAKE LOS
ANGELES GREAT
MAYOR CALLS MEETING OF
N0TABLES
PUSH RIVER, HARBOR, WATER
PROJECTS
Consolidation Movement to Be Taken
Up by Gathering Called at
the City Hall for
Thursday

. A Greater Los Angeles society is 10
be organized Thursday night.
Invitations have been sent to a hum
dred prominent citizens to meet in the
office of Mayor A. c. Harper to discuss
in a preliminary way the suggestion
made by numerous citizens that such
a society be organized and from the
responses received the result will be
notable.
1t is proposed that the Greater Los
Angeles society shall be composed OF
residents of Los Angeles county, not
now or recently officers. employees or
under pay, directly or indirectly, of
any railway transportation company,
and the objects of the society will be
to promote the development and
growth, commercially and otherwise,
of a Greater Los Angeles, and espe-
cially,
First--In creating, improving ana
extending harbors and facilities tor
open and public water transportation
in connection with transportation by
rail, by dredging the inner harbor OF
San Pedro and constructing waterways
from navigable water as far Inland
toward the business center of the city
as practicable.
Secondly the construction and
maintenance in perpetuity for public
use of a municipal railway between
the harbor of San Pedro or its connect
ing waterways and the business center
of the city via the Los Angeles river
bed, and forever holding for public use
the whole of the Los Angeles river bed
as q permanent highway between lne
city and water front.
Owens Project
Thirdly completion of the Owens
river canal project and the conserVa-
ton and use of all the available water
of owens river, Los Angeles river and
other nearby streams to be forever
held and owned by the city for public
use together with all power generated
therefrom. such water and power to
be distributed to the Inhabitants for
use upon payment OF liked rates anu
tolls.
Fourth-By securing the passage OF
Just laws to promote the consolidation
of city ard county and municipal ter
ritory of nearby towns into one con-
solidated city and county government
of Greater Los Angeles. to be gov
erned under the freehold charter OF
the city and thereby to greatly reduce
cost of government and place under
control of Greater Los Angeles the
water front and facilities for transpor-
tation.
Fifth-By means of cheap water
TRANSPORTATION to secure an abundance
of cheap fuel and food products and
raw materials for manufacturing and
Herewith to build up with our natural
advantages the greatest manufacturing
and commercial city.
SiXth-Finally, to meet the compile
ton of the Panama canal and enable
the inhabitants of Greater Los Angeles
and Southern California to enjoy its
inestimable advantages.
Well Known Men
A partial list of those who have been
invited, to be supplemented by addi-
tional lists today, is as follows:
Mayor A c. Harper, Oscar Mueller,
A. P. Fleming, Ed Bagby John l.. Pit
ner, Lee c. Gates o. Il. Johnson, Frank
Coulter, Meyer Lissner, D. A. Ham
burger, D. K. Trask, John r. Mathews,
John Wolfskill, Stoddard Jess, George
Smith, Milton K. Young, c. c. Bowen.
f. T. Earl, H. C. Dillon, 7. E. Gibbon,
John r. Haynes, Capt. Amos a. Fries,
George Baker Anderson, James A. An
derson, Willard Stimson, DIR. ]. P.
Booth, M. A. Hamburger, R. A. Rowan,
Leslie r. Hewitt, A. C. Bilicke, N. B.
Blackstone, Joseph H. Call, G.. S.
Wright, Marshall Stimson. Milbank
Johnson, Gen. Adna R. Chaffee. James
B. Lankershim, Sidney Butler. H. j.
Woolacott, ST., H. j. Whitley, Hugh
T. Duff, H. C. Wilmer Fred Baker.
Niles Pease. Frank J. Hart, w. S,
James, w. S. Bartlett, A. ]. Wallace.
A. A. Hubbard, L. l.. Bowen, Hugh
Harrison. R. H. Howell. II. Jevne,