Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-02-14
Former Resident : 80 Many
Interesting Facts Concerning
California
LOS ANGELES HARBOR Is PORT
RESIDENTS ARE PROUD or
Temperature Rise Is So Rapid,
Ordinary Thermometers Are
Broken
BY DR.. r. D. RANsoME

The other day | strolled down to
ing come down from the big city by
trolley, and as / slowly wandered
along down TO the fish dock ran onto
the Skipper, seated in the cockpit Of
his boat, a-tinkering at his nets. The
skipper, you see, !, an old friend OF
mine-he has been fishing out here
time way back before the govern
ment breakwater was built, when
San Pedro was but village, he told
me- You see Los Angeles is built
inland from the ocean some twenty
miles; lying to the south Of it is San
Pedro, a most natural harbor CUTLER
with the village.
To the west of Los Angeles is the
ocean bay known as Santa Monica
bay with scattering villages. Then,
said the skipper, "To the north we're
the mountains and to the eastward
they were. Then as Los Angeles
grew, she wanted a harbor. Some
financiers tried to convince her that
with the building of long wharf oul
into Santa Monica bay that was the
logical place, but somehow Los An
geles wanted to decide for herself. So
she annexed San Pedro and joined
it to her by a narrow twenty mills
strip so that after all it all was the
city of Los Angeles even though ST
Ear away" and the skipper sa d, d.
you know what she has done since
them" "She has annexed San Fer.
nando valley away across the noun
tains to the north and 81 Segundo
down On the west beach, and Ingle-
wood and more territory west and
pretty soon Pasadena and Redlands
and San Bernardino will be annexed. "
"And what them" l asked. We'll,
said the skipper, when one wants
TO come out from the east all they
need to say is, Give me ticket to Los
Angeles, San Francisco or San Diego
station The skipper chuckled.
but it might be pretty tough on
some of those up north" he said.
For San Francisco has been the
city Of the Pacific coast until Los
Angeles got into her head she need
ed a real chamber of commerce and
then she got her head so plumb full
OF new ideas, annexations, etc. that
she won't tolerate anything but the
newest things. No, SIR" said the
skipper, Its just as we'll that Mars
or Jupiter or the other planets can
not be gotten hold of for sure as
anything Los Angeles would do some
annexation"
Might Move Capitol
BY this time the skipper had his
nets fixed and after a few moments
of reflection as he gazed out ovel
the harbor said 'Just as well Caly n
Coolidge is president and is a sphinx
for if a more laxative man was pres
ident, he would be talked into NOV
ing the capitol, out here"
"See those warships.s'' THE skip
per added and following his fingers
I saw in the distance in the outer
harbor by the breakwater the massive
outlines Of the Pacific fleet, silent
dominating figures but ready to speak
"You know" he said, after re-light
ing his pipe 81 figure that this sight
gives a person more restful sleep al
night than any amount of verba
promises. Not that we need them
but you know. Just as my mother
used to say to us kids when she got
down the castor oil after we had
eaten too much green apples or tur
key, it isn't that we always need 1t
but its handy to have around"
1t was growing dusk as I left thu
skipper, and as I walked down t.
the electric station, marveled at thu
change that was being wrought.
A few years ago the harbor had M
class to it at ALL There was much
lowland lying between 1t and Lonl
Beach as we'll as northward beyont
Wilmington, but now what change
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