Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-04
JOINERS' PLANS
ARE FOCUSED IN
HARBOR REPORT
COMMITTEES FINDING SHOWS
WORLD WIDE SIGNIFICANCE
STATEMENT WILL COMPLETE
PRELIMINARY WORK
Consolidation Body to Present Re-
markabIe Document Containing
Details Relative to Making
of Great Port

The movement for public harbor
will crystalline into a comprehensive
scheme for one of the greatest harbors
on the worlds map through the report
OF the Los Angeles consolidation COM
mittee, which will probably be made
public following a final conference with
the san Pedro committee tonight, a
similar conference having been com
pleted with the Wilmington committee
at the Los Angeles chamber of COM
merce lastsnight. The report which the
Los Angeles committee will submit to
the city council and the business bodies
has assumed a scope even larger than
the members of the committee had an
ticipated.
A most important feature in this re-
spect will be the carrying out, if the
committees suggestions are accom-
plished and consolidation Is effected, OF
material work in the makinp of the
harbor in ample time to prepare Tor
the opening of the Panama canal, but
which would not be possible through
state aid and government work upon
which San Pedro and Wilmington tndt-
vidually would be compelled to depend.
An excellent example in this is the
necessary deepening of the channel be-
tween the inner and outer harbors,
measure which the head of the corps
not included in the governments plans
for harbor improvement at Sam Pedro,
although strongly urged as important
and feasible by Capt. Fries. Without
consolidation this would probably be
left undone until the government could
see fit to get around to it, although
such an action would have the effect
of bottling up the inner harbor against
a large class of ships. But under the
plan worked out by the consolidation
committees, if the government is dila-
tory in dredging the channel the city
will be able to step in and do the job
as it should be done.
Consolidation Argument
"If consolidation comes 1 don't think
this action will be necessary" said
man yesterday who has closely watch
ed the sentiment developed in the work
of the three committees. In that
there is another strong argument for
solidating-putting up a united
front to get what the harbor ought to
have, both in development and in ship
ping. If we want, say, $4,000 to deep
en- the harbor channel and are all
united in going after it, there will be
no question about it. But If some
fellow with an opposition harbor can
say that 1t is not Los Angeles harbor
that is concerned, just so much greater
preliminary labor will be needed. That
applies with as great force to larger
improvements which will enter into
the harbor plan; if there is no local
division about it the case at Washing
ton will be the stronger"
lust what the consolidation commit
tee report will show in the matter Of
figures is being held as an executive
matter until every detail shall have
been threshed out, but it covers every
phase of the movement from the stand
points of all interests concerned. In
this respect it exceeds in Importance
the ideas of the consolidation commit
tee when its members entered on the
work. Most of them have an entirely
new and more comprehensive theory on
the possibilities of a Southern Calltor-
MIA harbor at San Pedro and Whining
ton.
This is especially true of the repre-
sentat ives of the mercantile and JOB
bling interests on the Los Angeles conf
mittee. who have declared in the COM
mittee meetings that a united effort
for a free harbor will practically reYo-
lufionize business in Los Angeles. One
member of the committee declared that
the local wholesale interests Will IN
the not distant future plan all their
business campaigns from otfices on
the waterfront if consolidation ana
the resultant harbor become reallzed'
An eSDeCldllY SltOlS 1N1hlhAo Va 49,
Los. Angeles committees report Will be
its exposition of one of the great laws
of harbor development that shipping
must be accommodated in advance OF
its coming; shipping once diverted
away from a port at which it should
naturally dock because of inadequate
facilities or other good reason can be
recovered only by extreme measures,
if at ALL" In anticipating what Los
Angeles, San Pedro and Wilmington
must do to receive the world commerce
which will come by water after the
opening of the Panama canal the re-
port promises to take place as i'm
portant as the famous harbor report
of the engineers of the federated harbor
associations of San Francisco.
Attitude Significant
AS an inkling of the able manner in
which the Los Angeles committee has
worked, the attitude Of both San Pc
dro and Wilmington is significant. Of
the twenty-one representatives of San
Pedro present at the conference in the
chamber of commerce last night not
one expressed dissatisfaction or init
mated that the best interests of San
Pedro were endangered. San Pedro
has made a. number of material conceS-
sions from the suggestions for outer
harbor improvements advanced at the
initial conference, but these were not
agreed on until they had been fully
considered by all persons interested.
A marked result of the work of the
consolidation committees has been a
clearer understanding on all sides OF
the issues which must be taken up.
Immediate Improvement of the inner
harbor supplementing the municipal
work already started by Wilmington
municipal docks and warehouses to
the breakwater owned and controlled
by the city of San Pedro in the outer
harbor, municipal Improvement of the
roads and other approaches to these
inner and outer harbor engagements in
order to give an adequate outlet, both
to Los Angeles and all of Los Angeles
county and a concerted movement for
terminal rates for the harbor section
are embodied as features in the con-
solidation committees report.
The engineering, transportation and
other large problems connected with
the development of the harbor and its
utilization to the best possible adj
vantage have all been worked out so
thoroughly that any possible query
from any viewpoint will be adequately
answered by the consolidation commit
tee as the campaign for uniting the
three cities advances.
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Autos at Rochester
ROCHESTER,. N. Y, June 8.-The