Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-29
FRIES GUIDE ON
HARBOR JAUNT
NEW COMMISSIONER LEARNS
OF WATERWAYS
Work Beinu Done at San Pedro In.
spected by Party of Officials
In Charge of Army
Engineer

Following out his plan of education
on harbor matters, Captain Amos A.
Fries, who is in charge of all the gov
ernment engineering work in this dis
trict, again was yesterday host at san
Pedro entertaining Mayor A. c. Har-
per, Secretary A. P. Fleming of the
harbor commission and the Municipal
Waterways association, J. e. Carr, the
new member of the harbor commission
and Attorneys James Anderson and
Will Anderson, the special counsel OF
both organizations. With Captain
Fries were Lieutenant Charles Leeds
and Assistant Engineer d. e. Hughes.
On reaching Wilmington the party
was conducted on board the govern
ments launch up through the east
basin as far as the drawbridge now
being built by the Salt Lake Railroad
company.
Coming back the party inspected the
work being done by the big dredger
San Pedro in the turning basin, and
then, leaving the launch at the South
ern Pacific trestle, between Whining
ton and San Pedro, where the draw
bridge will be put in, they were taken
in a large skiff over to the tide lands
claimed by the Bannings and then
shown the water frontage owned by
the city of Los Angeles. The boun-
Diary lines of the terminus of the Shoe
string strip and the lines of Whining
ton and San Pedro were all care
fully explained.
Taking the Los Angeles Interurban
car at Wilmington road, the party
reached San Pedro for luncheon.
Upon invitation of Captain Fries,
President A. P. Ferl, Secretary Bick-
enbach and e. D. Seward of the San
Pedro chamber of commerce Joined the
party at 1 o'clock and boarded the
launch at Fifth street landing for a
trip to the outer harbor.
Passing out through the Bner har-
bor by the now completed Southern
Pacific slip, the launch sped on toward
the far end of the government break
water through the outer harbor. The
maps in the hands of Captain Fries
showed the depth of water on the bar
at twenty-five feet at low tide and a
channel 400 feet wide at Dead Mans
island. "We hope to get an appropria-
ton from the next congress of $1,000,-
000." said Captain Fries, land half of
this sum will dredge the inner harbor
to thirty feet at low tide all the way
back to the turning BASIN"
The outer harbor trip was made for
the special benefit of Mr.. Carr, the
new member on the board of harbor
commissioners, and he showed his will
lingness to learn by asking questions.
.'fIow large anchorage have you here?"
was asked by Mr.. Carr. about 400
acres with a depth of thirty feet" re-
piled the captain. "And how many
vessels will that accommodated" con-
tinued Mr.. Carr. "Oh, about fifty"
came the reply from Captain Fries.
'I hope I won't have to learn all
about this harbor in one day." joking
ly remarked the new commissioner.
Attention was called by Captain
Fries to the discoloration on the rocks
at the end of the breakwater caused
by oil floating out on the tides from the
tanks at East San Pedro during an
overflow one night last week. When
the launch reached the shore end of
the breakwater no oil appeared on the
rocks. Remarking on this, Captain
Fries said, This is another reason why
this shore end of the breakwater
should be filled in. 1t was the belief