Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25
FLEMING Tells
OF CAMP TO
SECURE HARBOR
SECRETARY OF COMMISSION
REVIEWS WORK
RECOMMENDS NEW ORDINANCE
TO CONTINUE PROJECT
Council Adopts Report Which Suggests
That City Engineer Draw Map
Showing in Detail Owner
ship of Lands

. ECRETARY A. p. FLEMING OF
- the harbor commission presented
~ a vigorous report to the city
council yesterday which reviewed the
work for consolidation and recommend
ed a plan of action for ascertaining on
the part of Los Angeles the exact sta
tus of present values and control at
the harbor. The report further rec
that the city engineer be in
structed TO make complete harbor
map showing all private holdings and
public lands, to obtain copies Of all
franchises for mapping their location
and to report on the present status Of
harbor development.
After calling attention to the work
already accomplished and under way
the harbor commission says the new
condition of affairs calls for a new or
dinance on the commission and asks
that the council pass such an ordi-
nance
Councilman Healy reversed his for
mer position by seeking to have the
report referred to the board of pub
lie works, but it was adopted by the
council with an appreciation of the
work of the commission. The report as
read by Secretary Fleming is as fol-
lows:
Committee Formed
Upon the 9th day of March, 1909,
your honorable body instructed this
commission. by the passage of a
resolution, to take such steps as in
our Judgment should be necessary
to bring about the consolidation of
the city of Los Angeles and our
harbor cities, or either of them, into
one municipality for the purpose of
creating upon San Pedro bay one
of the great manufacturing, resi-
Dental, maritime cities of the
world.
Your commission, acting under
and by virtue of such authority
after carefully considering the
question, deemed it for the best in
terests of the movement that the
consolidation campaign be conduct
ed by q body entirely separate and
apart from this commission. Eor
the purpose of creating u cons9li-
dation committee a committee con-
sisting of the president of the
chamber of commerce, the presi-
dent of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers association, the president
of the Municipal league, the presl-
dent Of the city council the chair
man of the board of supervisors or
Los Angeles county, the president
of the Waterways association and
Capt. Amos A. Fries was consti-
tuted for the purpose of selecting
a committee of fifteen, which should
be known as the consolidation COM
mittee of Los Angeles.
Personnel of Committee
This committee selected as such
consolidation committee the follow
ing weil-known gentlemen.
Stoddard Jess, Leslie r. Hewitt,
Joseph Scott, M. p. Snyder,
Jas. A. Anderson, w. d. stephens,
f. w. Braun, M. P. Snyder,
o. e. Parish, Frank Simpson,
II. Jevne, j. NJ. Schneider.
Homer Hamlin,
The committee thus constituted
met on the Goth day of March, 1909,
and organized by the election OF
Stoddard Jess as chairman and A.
P. Fleming as secretary. 1t I'M
mediately proceeded actively and
diligently to inform itself touch
ing the sentiment as to consolida-
ton; the relations of the cities, and
the advantages to be derived there
from. and after the obtaining of
pose of intelligently acting on
plan of consolidation it cid June
&. 1909. present to your honorable
bodv (Which is a matter of record)
its report, which said report was
approved by YOU and the terms ana
conditions therein made the policy
OF the city, and which said report
was ratified and confirmed by the
civic bodies of San Pedro and VIII
mington, the Los Angeles harbor
commission and the three civic
bodies of the city of Los Angeles
and the associated jobbers of Los
Angeles, and approved by the press
of the city. This report is a mat
ter of record and it's pages speak
for themselves.
Consolidation Effected
Afterwards, for the purpose OF
conducting the campaign, Chair
man Jess created a campaign COM
mittee, which, through the cour-
tesy of the chamber of commerce.
was permitted to open its head
quarters in the directors room or
the chamber of commerce. ana from
there was conducted an active
campaign of education. The neces-
sarv funds for such a campaign
being generously furnished by
your honorable body and for that
and all of the support your con-
stituents are truly grateful.
After a vigorous campaign, Au-
gusc 4. 1909, by a decisive vote OF
1O7 for consolidation to 60 against
consolidation, Wilmington said she
would Join Los Angeles, and on the
same date, by a vote of 1861 in
favor of consolidation to 223 against
consolidation, Los Angeles said she
would ioin with Wilmington, and
August IL, 1909, San Pedro, by
vote of 726 for consolidation to 227
against consolidation, said she
would consolidate with Los An
geles, and on the same date Los
Angeles, by a vote of 1852 for con-
solidation to a vote Of 100 against
consolidation, said she would con-
solidate with San Pedro.
After Terminal Rates
And now, gentlemen, under your
instructions, when the proper GER
tificate shall have been filed with
the secretary of state, there will
have been created a municipality
large enough and strong enough to
develop San Pedro harbor into one
of the great municipality owned
and controlled harbors of the world,
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