Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-22
URGE WORK ON
OUTER HARBOR
SAN PEDRO CITIZENS FAVOR
IMPROVEMENT PLAN
ACTION OF TWO CONSOLIDATION
COMMITTEES AWAITED
Terminal Rate Question Assumes Inn
portant Aspect In Discussions
of Shipping Matters
involved
[sneclal to The Herald

three weeks longer to wait for the con-
solidation enabling act to become oper
alive. when petitions may be circulated
which will call an election which shall
decide whether this city unites with the
city of Los Angeles, the voters mere
anxiously await the action OF the con,
solidation committees of both cities ana
the official action of the greater city In
determining what Improvements VIII be
made on San Pedro harbor, where they
will be made, and in general the terms
under which this city will lose It's iden-
tity and become a part of the metropo-
lis of the great southwest
Despite the fact that the government
engineers office has officially disap-
proved the plan for the immediate I'M
provement of the outer harbor, ana
from an engineers view point taken
the stand that the west basin of the
inner harbor is the place for the ac-
commodation of the deep draught COM
merce which should come to this port,
the citizens here, whether believers IN
consolidation or not, are UNANIMOUSLY
in favor of the outer harbor being inn
mediately developed. That the las
acres of ground available for municipal
warehouse sites and the frontage which
is now in twenty-four feet of water
shall besleft for the railroads or private
corporations to improve, and thus keep
the harbor bottled up until such time
as the bar can be dredged, the inner
harbor deepened and the west basin
scooped out is in the minds of most of
the people here poor business judgment.
That the whole of the inner bay will
be In time the scene of unusual shipping
activity is not denied. but the argument
is used here that there are deep draught
vessels going by this port today because
no public docks are available.
Approve Councils Action
The opinion prevails here today that
the city council of Los Angeles acted
wisely yesterday when the city engineer
was instructed to Immediately look over
the situation and make plans and estt-
mates of the cost of improving the
outer harbor, the approaches thereto
and the building of a boulevard to Los
Angeles business district.
The sentiment prevails among the
leaders of the consolidation movement
as represented by the consolidation
committee and the new board of trade,
which Is composed of hundreds Of prop
erty owners, that 1t is essential that
these matters be settled at once.
1t is hoped that when the consolida-
ton committees of both cities meet in
conference next Tuesday night some of
these questions will be settled.
Another important subject which is
much talked of here and apparently
little understood is the terminal rate
question. The feeling prevails that the
Los Angeles jobbers will not sanction
or assist San Pedro in getting the
rightful concessions from the railroads.
On one hand the city trustees here, who
are opposed to consolidation, are con-
templating hiring special counsel to
fight for terminal rates, while on the
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company has been organized with the
intention of working for the establish
ment of terminal point at this har-
Dor. Both the city trustees and the new
company complain that the jobbers will
not assist them, that the fight would
be easy If Los Angeles wholesalers
woud insist that the merchandise now
being brought from New York on the
American Hawaiian steamers to San
Diego shall be routed through this port
instead Between these bodies is the
new board of trade, which recently for
warded it's ideas on the consolidation
question to both the consolidation COM
mittee and the city council of Los An
geles. The closing paragraph in these
resolutions reads in part:
1--WE expect from the public bodies of
the city of Los Angeles immediate and
unequivocal Endorsement of the de-
be made terminal point for transcon-
tinental railway rates."
When 1t is remembered that many of
the director of this ne reorganization
are the so-called "rabid consolidation
ists," who would even divide the city in
order to get into Los Angeles, it is ap-
parent that the sentiment here is not
for entire surrender, but for surrender
under reasonable terms. The local
chamber of commerce executive commit
tee apparently is looking for light on
the consolidation problems, but it is
hard for the people here to forget that
the majority of these men have always
been opposed to consolidation in any
form, and even went so far as to OPP
pose the passage of the reasonable con-
solidation bill.
No doubt is expressed by the leaders
in the fight here but that this city will
eventually receive a square deal' from
Los Angeles, and the vexatious prob
lens which now confront them will all
be solved to the satisfaction of all those
who really want to make of this harbor
free, public, commercial center which
will invite the shipping of the world.
and be In reality the harbor of the great
southwest.
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baker business. I would like to see
the issue resolve into a point of the
survival of tn fittest. The argument
that some retailers would build ovens of
their own, If not receiving good profit
Will not hold We can deal then with
the consumers directly, and that is the
only way that honest and successful
business can be managed. A standard
weight will soon result in a standard
ana just price"
Newberry took occasion to state that
the recent rise in the price OF flour was
unnecessary. He thought it a plan to
drive the bakers into buying, and
looked for a speedy return to normal
prices.
The question of price finally was left
for further discussion and final action
on May ~.
During the meeting a committee of
five men from Bakers union No. 81 APP
peared and asked permission to attend
the session to protect their own inter-
ests. 1t was voted not to allow them
at the meeting.
Green said after the meeting that the
passage of the ordinance would drive
many dishonest dealers in Sonoratown
out of business He stated that the dis
honest dealers in that district took adj
vantage of the ignorance of their Gus
toners and passed off bread as weigh
ing fourteen ounces which weighed but
ten ounces.
The ordinance will come up for action
by the common council Tuesday, and
the bakers will attend in body to
support and encourage its passage UNI
less they change their minds before that
time. Thirty bakers attended last
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