Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-30
NEW COMMITTEE
HAS FREE HAND
CONSOLIDATION PLANS LEFT
TO ITS INITIATIVE
BODY THAT NAMED 1T RETiRES
FROM FIELD OF ACTION
Immediate Progress Depends Largely
on Course Pursued by Whining
ton and San Pedro Toward
Disputed Details

The committee appointed to select
the membership of the consolidation
committee for the city OF Los Ahgeles
held its last meeting yesterday aIIer-
noon and decided no action was nee
essary to lay out set plan OIL WORK toI
the consolidation committee. Inc orig
inal committee consisted of Wills Ii.
Booth. president of the chamber of
commences: j. M. Schneider, president
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
association; ]. A. Anderson, vice presl-
dent of the Municipal Waterways asSo-
citation; Niles Pease, president OF tne
city council George III. Stewart, presl-
dent of the Municipal league, and capt;
Amos A. Fries. Its work was ended
yesterday by signing the Iolio"lhs
letter:
'The chairman and members of the
consolidation committee of the city or
Los Angeles
'Gentiemen: The committee selected
by the civic organizations ana the
county and municipal government TO
determine the personnel of your COM
mittee. and define its duties, desires to
state that it does not consider it prac-
~ tlSkl to outline a rigid plan l0f your
"This committee has absolute conf
dence in your ability to work out the
details as circumstances arise to the
end that you will perfect and consum-
mate plans for the consolidation of the
CONTIGUOUS cities of San Pedro and
Wilmington with Los Angeles on
basis that will be absolutely to the
mutual advantage of the cities inter-
ested, and insure great public haroor:
1--WE consider it within the scope of
this committees work to fill any va
'cancies that may subsequently occur
OIL the consolidation committee.
rd
dependent on the action taken at Will
mington and San Pedro regarding prop
ositions from the business interests of
those cities covering the responsibility
of Los Angeles after consolidation.
Joint meeting of the. three committees
will probably be held in the near fu-
ture.
Matters concerning which there can
be little question, such lighting and
fire protection, will be considered, and
in addition improvements of a SPECIFIC
nature will be suggested. Among these,
in all probability, will be a request
from Wilmington that the consolidated
cities go ahead with the municipal har-
Dor work initiated by that city.
The consolidation committees repre-
senting the harbor cities probably will
present the suggestions of their towns
to the Los Angeles committee. In case
all three committees agree on a uni
form plan each, in all likelihood, will
report back to it's own city body, ask
ing for resolution to approve the
plan. The consolidation committee of
Los Angeles may invite the chamber
of commerce and other civic bodies
representing the business men to in
dorse the approved plan.
With consolidation the powers and
duties of the Los Angeles harbor COM
mission will be greatly enlarged. The
ordinance creating the harbor commits
sion makes it the duty of the commits
sion to take up harbor work on a plane
somewhat similar to the relation of the
board of public works to the aqueduct,
and after consolidation the work of the
harbor commission will be greatly ex-
tended rather than limited. Secretary
A. P. Fleming, realizing the importance
of this, has collected large amount of
data that will be valuable to the COM
mission later on.