Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-24
GREAT ATLANTIC
SHIPS WILL RUN
TO LOS ANGELES
ALL-STEEL CLIPPER VESSELS
TO ROUND HORN
BIG EASTERN LINES TO OPEN
SAN PEDRO SERVICE
Prospect of Free Harbor Attracts At
tention of Leading Steamer Conn
panies-lmmense Develop
ments Promised Soon

TIHE "clipper" service of sailing ships
between New York and Philadel-
n phia and Los Angeles harbor is to
be revived with steel ships of about
5000 tons.
The Hamburg American line is plan
ming Pacific service which will re-
ouire the best facilities that can be
offered in the outer hahpor.
The American Hawa6an Steamship
company is figuring on making regular
stops at San Pedro upon the completion
of the Miner concession, at which space
will be reserved for their service.
These interesting pointers toward the
importance of finishing the harbor are
no doubt the forerunners of others soon
to come. In fact it Is believed by men
posted on shipping matters that within
a comparatively short time Los Angeles
will have a list of leading British,
French, German, Spanish and Dutch
lines which already have considered
placing San Pedro harbor on their maps
and, as was intimated in The Herald
last winter, have taken the first step
in building up their Pacific trade oy
running their boats to the isthmus,
which they are now doing.
Three Lines Planned
Following closely on the announce
ment that more than $1000,000 will be
spent in finishing the Miner concession
in the outer harbor with large pro-
vision for deep-draught vessels comes
the information that at least three
lines of Importance are planned for the
deep sea harbor of California.
The clipper service, which can be
definitely announced to ply between
San Pedro and New York, is a novel
revival of an old time carrier system,
but by men well posted on what they
are doing.
Next month the big steel ship-all the
sailing ships in this new "clipper" SER
vice are to be of steel-William P. Frye
will leave New York bound for Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
Instead of unloading at San Fran
cisco the freight for Los Angeles and
sending it back by rail, as has been a
custom heretofore, the first port to see
the old-new sailing service will be San
Pedro.
yhese carriers of mixed freight from
the Atlantieeto the Pacific will continue
to make first call at the port of Greater
Los Angeles
When tho American Hawaiian Steam
ship company entered the field with its
modern freight carrying steamers ten
years ago the old clipper service went
out of business.
RFeSiQent OF company
ID. B. Dearborn was actively con-
nected with that service, and is the
president of the new company. He has
associated with him the Standard Oil
company, Sewell & Co. and a number of
California capitalists.
While the clipper ships are sailing
craft they will be fitted with the most
modern methods for handling freight
and in other ways. The sails will be
handled with machinery
The service will be watched with
great interest by the railroads as we'll
as by the maritime interests, for it had
been accepted generally that sailing
vessels are out of date for carrying
mixed freight around the Horn. This
now is refuted by nautical experts.
The William p. Frye, first of the new
line, will call at San Pedro about
Thanksgiving time. She will be well
coined with a great demonstration pro-
viding consolidation carries and the
greater city votes the bonds needed for
building big harbor as outlined by the
Los Angeles consolidation committee.
other Ships to Come
Almost of as great significance as to
the future Importance of the port OF
Los Angeles is the statement that the
American Hawaiian Steamship compa-
nv recognizes this and plans to have
ships of that line make regular stops
here instead of unloading Los Angeles
freight at San Diego and shipping it in
by the Santa Fe.
This was not in the plans of the COM
pany's officials when the service was
initiated, for its owners, the Spreckels
brothers, have large interests in San
Diego which they hoped to augment by
the commerce their ships could bring
through that port.
Their representatives. stated less than
a, wear ago that their ships could not
stop at San Pedro even if there were a
place where they could discharge car
bo-which was not and is not yet avail
able-because it was an expensive pro-
ceeding to put in and unload, and mon
ey was saved by one operation at the
larger and more commodious harbor oil
San Diego
But the business for Los Angeles
grew SO fast, mounting from less than
400 tons to more than 1000 tons, that
the company,s officials began to have
foresight ~
Visited Los Angeles
About ten weeks ago President
George S. Dearborn and Pacific Coast
Manager c. w. Cook of the AmeFican
Hawaiian company made an important
but closely disguised trip to LoS Ange-
les.
They were trailed by a reporter of
The Herald, but at the Van Nuys
where they stopped but did not regis
ter, nothing was known of their pres
ence and the clerk refused to take a
card for them
At the office of ]. B. Alexander, the
Los Angeles representative of the
Spreckels interests, their presence here
was not known.
They made an inspection journey to
San Pedro and looked over the harbor.
ssThere is the place for us If 1t is to
be completed" said Mr.. Dearborn as
soon as he saw the Miner fill.
Lieut. Miner refuses to discuss the
American Hawaiian proposition or tell
how much space is likely to be reserved
for them, but it is certain when facili-
Ties are ready for the Nevadan of the
American Hawaiian line at the outer
harbor the Nevadan will be ordered to
unload there and the cargo will be dis
charged at the docks of the Outer Har-
hor Dock and Wharf company, holders
oF the Miner concession.
yrhe Hamburg American line, precur-
sors of other invaders of the Pacific
through the Panama canal, will switch
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