Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-21
HARBoR GRAB

Greater Los Angeles, viii meet
= tonight to PROTEST against the
harbor grab. THE GRABBERS WILL
NOT BE PERMITTED TO GRAB.
The most brazen attempt to get val
liable rights that has been made since
Captain Fries has been in charge of the
district" will not be successful.
The action of the trustees is vetoed
by the people. and tonights meeting
will show the cormorant corporation
interests allied in the attempt to pirate.
franchises the citizens of Greater Los
Angeles will not permit officials to
whom the interests of the public are
committed to lend themselves to pred
atory plans and plots.
George H. Peck, n. w. Tilton, Mi
chael Duffy, F. D. Foot and J. w.
Walton. members of the board of trus-
tees of the city of San Pedro, have
shown a singular lack of appreciation
of the respect and courtesy due the
citizens of Greater Los Angeles
by taking precipitate action with re-
gard to wharf franchises and railroad
franchises over and along the east side
of Mormon island and along the main
channel in the east basin Of the inner
harbor of San Pedro, applied for by
J. B. Banning. Banning company, Will
lam Banning. Wilmington Transpor-
tation company, Edward Maher and
the Southern Pacific.
The harbor franchise steal must not
be carried through. The history of
Greater Los Angeles must not be dis
graced by the success of a conspiracy
to outwit the intent of consolidation
by gobbling the entire frontage of Nor
mon island.
At the indignation meeting of citizens
which will be held this evening, repre-
sentatives from all the civic bodies of
Los Angeles will be present, and Capt.
Amos A. Fries will deliver an address.
Captain Fries voices public sentiment
when he says: mo further railroad
franchises should be grantee over tide
lands or other frontage at San Pedro,
for sooner or later the public must use
these lands, and will want to establish
their own belt line of railroad"
To grant the franchises coveted by
predatory interests will be a blow at
the best interests of Greater Los An
geles The Herald has published a
map illustrating plainly the attempt
of the Southern Pacific company and
its creatures to grab at least a mile of
the most valuable wharf frontage Of
the inner harbor, and incidentally to
impair or actually destroy the value
to the people of a large tract of land
which is certain to be recovered as a
result of the tidelands suits recently
brought by the attorney general and
now pending in the superior court of
this county.
The Southern Pacific well knows the
land shown in the map published by
The Herald will ultimately become the
property of the people as result of
the tidelands suits; that within a few
weeks as a result of the consolidation
election all of San Pedro harbor will
come under control OF Greater Los
Angeles, and that the greater city of
Los Angeles will improve this prop
erty by building wharves upon the
water front thereof; building a NUM-
eipaI railway back of these wharves
open to the use of all railroad COM
panies and covering this ground with
warehouses for the accommodation of
the business of san Pedro harbor; thus
making San Pedro a great commercial
port in the best sense of the term.
If the Southern Pacific and its allies
should succeed in carrying out the
predatory plans exposed and explained
by Los Angeles Herald, for fifty years
the people will be deprived of the use
of wharf frontages of vital Importance
to San Pedro harbor
The Southern Pacific group of cor
morants knew the coveted franchises
must be sneaked in advance of con-
solidation, for they could never be OBJ
tanned after that step had been taken.
Even If the trustees of San Pedro
should be disposed to acquiesce in the
S. P. grab, the citizens and taxpayers
of Los Angeles cannot permit the acqui-
escence to become effective.
ATTEND THE MASS MEETING
AND STOP THE. HARROR STEAL.