Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-14

1910, Will undoubtedly incur Indebtedness
of $1.500, 900 for harbor Improvement, ana guar
antee that harbor revenues VIII pay IL 3 odoh,
Seattle and Portland arc spending inlliions i
ON their harbors in order to avail themselves
of the advantages of the Panama canal
SAN FRANCISCO Is EXAMPLE
San Francisco has since 1868 expended near
ly s29, 100000 in the Improvement OF her mar
Dor, every dollar Of which has been obtalnso
from the revenues of her harbor, and In lylO
wln if approved by the voters, incur an in
debtedness of s10,000.000 and guarantee to pay
interest and principal out of the recelpts OF
the harbor, and in the hour OF her sreH.
misfortune It was her harbor that enabled
her to rally, and save her commerce, re-
sumo her position as a commercial center IN
such short time and in such a. decisive man
ner as to challenge the admiration OF the
world San Francisco harbor has an annual
tonnage of about 6,sO0, 900 tons; Los Angeles
harbor has an annual tonnage OF ABOUT l.
500,0 900 tons, which yields an annual income
10 private parties now in control OF tho
harbor Of approximately S4s3, 593, and when
the municipality shall be In possession OF
wharves, docks, warehouses and distributing
facilities as contemplated under this bono is
sue the earnings of the harbor must go to
the public and not to private interests
The development of Los Angeles harbor is,
In our opinion, clear cut business ils, tIanS
action that Will afford a profitable market
for the electrical energy Of the owens river
aqueduct; outlet for our manufacturer
products a sure and safe guard against traf-
the advantage of cheap water transportation
to the Great Lakes and all of the Atlantic
ports, and will enable us to avail ourselves
of direct connection by water with LONDON
Liverpool, Manchester and all European ports
the Argentine Republic and the ORIENT IN
fact, the improvement OF the harpor puts
In touch with the world and insures mere
the building of one OF the greatest resi-
Dental, manufacturing, maritime cities OF the
world.
URGE VOTES FOR BONDS
These bonds will not be sold until needed.
and the probabilities are that the expendi-
ture OF the money will extend over such
length of time that the sinking fund pro-
vided for the payment Of tho Owens river
bonds can be used In purchasing them' "hich
would be advantageous to the city.
We urge you to display your loyalty 10
your city by casting your vote in favor of the
harbor and power bonds early next Iues-
day morning, and that your friends ana
neighbors do likewise, and the future growth
of your city is assured.
Yours for the future great city Of the
world. Geo. H. Stewart chairman; joseph
Scott James A. Anderson, Adna r. Chafree'
r. NJ Lusk. Stoddard Jess, T. p. Gibbon A.
P. Fleming, Leslie r. Hewitt VIM d. Ste
phens. NJ. II. Newmark, John r. Mathews
A. A. Hubbard, Frank Virgins, John IL.
Norton c. H. PIurnmer, w. NJ Humphreys,
r. r. Del Valle r. S. Cary, John Anderson
and H. T. Lee, members of chamber OK com
merce power and harbor bond committee.
A large and very enthusiastic meetlns
mittee was held at the city hall IN
Wilmington last evening. The meeting
was called for the purpose of making
arrangements to get out every avail
able vote for the bond election Iues-
day. Resolutions were passed urging
every voter to support the power BONDS
as vigorously as the harbor bonds, IN
the belief that both propositions are
necessary for the future welfare ana
progress of Greater Los Angeles.
The consolidation committee feels
that with a practically unanimous vote
| cast in favor of both issues its work
will be completed and Los Angeles VIII
be in a position to redeem all OF her
ante-consolidation promises.
The Highland Park Protective league
| has sent out the following personal let
ter urging support for the power ana
| harbor bonds:
| .TOS ANGELES, April I.-Dear Sir: 1t ie
| deemed by the league highly important that
| the 'harbor improvement and power ocnuf
| he voted at the election 10 be held Tuesday
the 18th inst We heartily indorse the BONDS
and earnestly request your Jealous support IN
the matter. -,
Please do your best to Boost for Los Angeles
| ana nrosperity. c. W. SMITH, President"
!. o. HAWLEY, Secretary.
CLUB INDoRsEs BONDS
The harbor and power bond issue re-
ceived a vigorous impetus at the lunch
con of the Federation club In this
city yesterdy. George H. Stewart and
! T. e. Gibbon made forceful addresses
and a resolution was passed recon-
mending the voters of Los Angeles TO
vote in favor of the harbor and the
power bonds at the election April 10.
Mr.. Stewart was the first speaker,
and after observing that railroad rates
were too high said that the very best
method of getting better rates was TO
get. a first-class harbor for Los Ange-
| les, and that the way to get that was
to vote for the harbor bonds. He also
! spoke of the power project and pointed
| out that by carrying 1t through Los
| Angeles would advance its manufactur-
| ing and commercial future many years,
Mr.. Gibbon in his address said that
| the honor Of Los Angeles was involved
| in the voting of the harbor and power
bonds. He pointed out the splendid re-
suits that would follow the develop
| ment of these two great projects, and
laid particular emphasis on the bene-
| fits that would accrue to the fruit IN
| terests of Southern California through
| the harbor improvements, which would
bring about the shipment of the bulk
| of the fruit by steamer. He said that
nearly all of the fruit from this section
which is sent east has to be refrige-
rated at great cost and that steamship
refrigeration is much cheaper through
the use of natural processes on board
the steamers. After explaining the re-
frigerating matter he said:
TT can be readily seen that the great
saving by steamship transportation of
fruit and all the commercial commodi-
ties involved here would largely i'm
prove the financial conditions in our
| barhor citv and all this southern coun-
trv. I think that through the hand
ling of fruit and other commodities the
amount of $10OOO,O0O expended at the
harbor of Los Angeles would be paid
in six years.,