Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-05
POLICE ON GUARD
To KEEP RAILWAY
OFF C|TY'5 LANDS
Determined Action Will Be Taken
to Prevent Work on For
feited Concession
S. P. is ACTIVE AT HARB0R
Officers and LaborerS May Clash
Today if Track Is Laid
on TrestIe
S. P. is ACTIVE AT HARB0R

Determined to prevent the Southern
Pacific and the Huntington interests
from making belated attempt to hold
franchises at San Pedro which the city
has declared forfeited, the municipal
authorities will use force today, if nee
essary, to stop the laying of track
across a trestle connecting the Pacific
Electric with the Huntington fill.
There are prospects of a collision to-
day. For several days there has been
much activity at San Pedro on the
part of Workmen in the employ of the
Southern Pacific and the Pacific Elec-
trio companies. 1t is surmised that
the companies are endeavoring to hold
franchises already declared forfeited
by councilmanic action because of
their failure to initiate certain i'm
provements within the time fixed when
the franchises were granted.
MAY CLASH TODAY
Police were stationed near the work
men Friday to watch them. AS what
has been done up to date has been on
land the companies control, no effort
has been made to stop the work. To-
day, however, they may try to do
work on ground to which the city de-
clares they have no further right. If
they do, force will be used to stop the
work.
One hundred Southern Pacific labor
ers yesterday laid a cross-over switch
connecting the Southern Pacific spur
to the south side of the Southern Pa
cific slip and the double track line of
the Pacific Electric to the outer har-
Dor, which was completed Friday.
The object of the Southern Pacific
company in rushing work yesterday
was the cause of much speculation.
Patrolmen watched the laborers all
day. The connection gives the South
ern Pacific a line to the concession of
the Outer Harbor and Dock company,
known as the Miner fill. Heretofore
the Pacific Electric has had the only
track reaching that concession. The
dock company yesterday ran a train
of fiat cars with a locomotive out on
the line and left 1t standing there to
prevent the Southern Pacific from do
ing any work on the fill. The locomo-
tive stands on the east boundary of the
concession.
POLICE WILL INTERFERE
Just east of the locomotive there is
trestle extending from the Pacific
Electric track to the Huntington fill.
1t is feared an attempt may be made
TO lay rails on this treStle To-Day.
Should this be attempted 1t is expect
ed that the police will interfere with
the work and that a clash between the
companies and the city will result.
The work done yesterday is between
the end of the Southern Pacific slip
and San Pedro street, on the right of
way of the Los Angeles Interurban
road. At the foot of San Pedro street,
along the west side of which is a high
bluff, 1t is only 125 feet between the
slip and the east side of the street,
and of this the railroad owns lis feet.
1t is the plan of the city to condemn
a strip along San Pedro street to in
clude the remaining ten feet so that
the street may be widened, and pro-
vide means for reaching the Hunting
tion fill, the franchise for which has
been declared forfeited and which the
city proposes to improve for municipal
docks and warehouses.