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8 TV • New Depositors 1909 In March . .... 1229 In April ..... ; 1181 .. In May ...... 1143 MORE than a thousand people —new De '.-'■-vf. positors —open accounts with this Bank every month. These people bring their money here be cause this Institution appeals to their judgment. They appreciate its great financial strength. ' They like its sound, progressive methods. They respect the extended experience, business sa gacity, and high standing of the men who conduct its affairs. The location of this Bankthe most cen tral in Los Angeles—is a marked advantage I to depositors. _- You also should have a deposit here. _______ _s________p' Resources $11,300,000. .SraMmw^ Capital and Surplus $925,000. ____' Ifff _Y f lull 1_ _ftf!j Increase In Deposits thus far _ut xf^T. jilrijp ji? 3 __3S3_____f^_f Four per cent Interest, which mm ________T__rS«Ba L___4_r4_^l_n_H £ pounds semi-annually, paid on ,i^ **«_iSlr_i_**»» Three per cent interest paid on jJS_H_SIS_SiH 3*tl__iS'P •. "Special Ordinary" deposits, when • 'he minimum monthly balance is jjfEyJJP l^r*jr*(_Hf ly 51*00 or more. These may be checked s^____S^^D^^_S^tr*o against without presentation of rass *"""**tf*P_s«_-__l"'=ss&_2s: --* -*^ — J Book. German-American Savings Bankings! r^v:? .. t Los Angeles People •' fpW-W, w'H make headquarters at the v^^^fe' Hotel Fairfield 3__tß_^_^H___=tS|feli|ls^___[f* For reservations address ■ '*i^^^ H. L. BROPHY, Propr. WANT HARBOR V: fOR 3 CITIES CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS REPORT OF COMMITTEE When Completed Port of San Pedro J Will Be One of the Finest Shel ters in World for Vessels (Continued from Pace Tare.) county for the purpose of formu lating an equitable plan whereby Los Angeles, San Pedro and Wil mington could consolidate under one municipal government for the purpose of developing San Pedro and Wilmington harbors commen surate with their natural advan tages, have, after a careful and exhaustive examination, submitted a full and complete report of their findings and recommendations to the city council and the civic bodies of the city of Los Angeles, which report has been carefully and fully considered by this body, and after due deliberation we feel that we are fully advised in the premises and for the further rea son that "Whereas, by direction of the city council this commission com menced certain suits In the su perior court of this county by per mission of the attorney general of the state of California, which are now pending, whereby this com mission confidently believes there will be recovered from private in terests about 1300 acres of tide lands in the inner or Wilmington harbor, acquired by them through a misinterpretation of the law, of the. value of not less than $5,000, --000, which will afford' at least 35,000 feet of additional ' harbor frontage, making available at least 50,000 feet in the Inner and outer harbors, which will be under the control of the consolidated munici pality, thus affording the consoli dated city the opportunity of building one of the great if not the greatest , municipally owned and controlled harbors of refuge and commerce in the world.' "Therefore, be it resolved, by the harbor commission of the city of Los Angeles, that the recom mendations by the consolidation committee of the expenditure of $10,000,000 within the next ten years for the Improvement of the outer harbor at San Pedro and the inner I harbor at Wilmington is a con • servative businesslike recommend ation and that the conditions in said harbors fully justify such an expenditure and that we do hereby ratify and confirm all of the find ings In said report and do approve of all .of the recommendations therein contained. f "And we do hereby advise that the necessary steps be Immediately taken to bring about the consoli dation of Los Angeles, San Pedro and \ Wilmington, under the terms and conditions set forth in said ■',; report that. there may be created one s municipal corporation, finan cially able to carry to a successful ■ completion the development of San t Pedro and Wilmington harbors to • .'■ meet the present and , future de ■ maud, of commerce." CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOINS JOBBERS AND MERCHANTS The indorsements of the Los An geles chamber of commerce. Municipal league. Merchants and Manufactures' association and the Associated Jobbers of Los Angeles were identically worded. That of the chamber of commerce was as follows: "Be it resolved. By the board of directors of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce, that we do hereby ratify and confirm the findings of the con solidation report, and do approve of the recommendations therein contained. ' "And we do hereby advise that the necessary steps be immediately taken to bring about the consolidation of Los Angeles, San Pedro and Wilmington, under the terms and conditions set forth in said report that there may be created one municipal corporation, financially able to carry to a successful completion the development of San Pedro and Wilmington harbors to meet the present and future demands of dftmmorpp" SAN PEDRO RECEIVES THE REPORT WITH ENTHUSIASM SAN PEDRO, June B.—The voters and taxpayers of this city have re ceived the synopsis of the report filed today with the city council of Los An geles with much enthusiasm, and those who have knowledge of all that the full -ext of the report contains predict that the most skeptical citizen whose views on th. subject are not biased by undue Influence will upon reading the report be convinced that Los Angeles means business, and that the backing of all of the civic bodies, the harbor commission, the Associated Jobbers and the press will guarantee that the rec ommendations will be carried out and San Pedro and Wilmington harbors be Improved commensurate with the pop ulation and progressives-*, of South ern California. The petitions of the election are ready for circulation, and tomorrow or next day will see the opportunity given to the voters to affix their signatures to the petitions which will call the elec tion which. if successful, will mean the building up of this section of the coun try and provide a harbor second 'to none. Although much opposition Is to be expected from certain ' uarters, no fear is expressed but what the election here will carry, as the report which is to be made public is so broad in Its scope and so unqualiflt.l In Its recommenda tions for the expenditure of millions of dollars here that no citizens who have the interest of the community or their own property Interests at heart can logically refuse to indorse the propo sition. . • The local consolidation committee has the situation well In hand, .--nd the or ganization prior *to *"ie election will be as perfect as a public citi:.' -.' commit tee can make It without resorting to a regular "machine." Impatient enthusiasts will now be able to work off steam, and willing workers will circulate the petitions for the election, which when carried will, It Is believed, be of benefit to not only San Pedro and Los Angeles, but the whole southwest, which is Interested In making a free harbor for Los An geles. '' * , COMMITTEE REGARDS WORK AS HAVING JUST BEGUN ■ The consolidation committee regards Its work as merely well under way rather than finished, and its plans con template fully as active work in the next two months as It has had since the organization of the committee In March. A vigorous campaign will be conducted to arouse an appreciation of the magnitude and far-reaching bene fits of the harbor project; \ "I regard today's action as the most Important that has been taken by the city council of Los Angeles," said Les lie It. Hewitt, who as a member of the consolidation committee and as city - attorney has had a double reason for Intimate study of the harbor question. LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, Iso 9. "It Is larger in Its possibilities ! than the aqueduct in many ways. A great public harbor, achieved on the plan outlined, .will bring greater returns to every, person In Los Angeles than any thing else that has so far been under taken." * Harbor experts who have given close study to the possibilities of a great municipal port at San Pedro and Wil mington say that it will raise the rate of wages and salaries ln Los Angeles to a standard equal to that of any eastern city and permit the establish ment of manufacturing enterprises on a vast scale. These facts and what they mean in building up a city of 1,000.000 inhabitants In Los Angeles county have been repeatedly pointed out and substantiated by Joseph H. Call, A. P. Fleming and Captain Amos A. Fries In discourses on the harbor. PETITIONS TO CIRCULATE TODAY IN BUSINESS DISTRICT Petitions .will be in circulation today throughout the business district at Los Angeles and In many portions of the residence section calling;, for the con solidation election. The canvassers are asking-each qualified elector to sign one petition for an election for the consolidation of IjOs Angeles and San Pedro and another .covering consolida tion with Wilmington. The wording of the two petitions Is in substance Iden tical. One is headed in large letters, "Los Angeles and San Pedro Petition" and the other hears the heading "Los Angeles and Wilmington Petition." The former .is as follows: We, the undersigned, qualified voters of the city of Los Angeles and of the city of San Tedro, respectively, hereby petition and represent to your honor able body as follows: That the said city of l.os Angeles I* a municipal corporation of the state of California, operating under a freehold ers' charter, framed under the provis ions of section 8 of article XT of the constitution of the state of California, and that the said city of San Pedro Is a municipal corporation- of the state of California, incorporated under the gen eral laws of the state of California, providing for the organization. incorpo ration and government of municipal corporations, as a city of the fifth class; That the said municipal corporations designated In this petition, to wit, the said city of Lob Angeles and the said city of Pan Pedro, are contiguous to each other; , That the said city of Los Angeles Is the greater in population of said municipal corporations, as shown by the last- federal census. And we hereby .petition your honor able body to submit to the qualified electors of the said city of Los Angeles and to the qualified elector* of the said city of San Pedro, at a special election to be called and held ln said municipal corporations for that purpose, in ac cordance with the provisions of an act of tin. legislature of the state of Cali fornia entitled "An act to provide for the consolidation of municipal corpo rations," approved March 11. 1909, the question whether said municipal cor porations shall become consolidated Into one municipal corporation, to be governed In the name and under the freeholders' charter under which the said city of Los Angeles Is governed. , We further petition that your honor able body designate a day upon* which . such special election shall be held ln the said city of Los Angeles and In the ; said city of San Pedro, hereby proposed to be consolidated, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said municipal corporations the question whether such consolidation shall be effected, and ! that you cause written notice of receiving this petition, and of the date of such special election, to he given to the board of trustees of the city of San Pedro, as required by law. Bach of your petitioner* has hereunto subscribed his name, and has set op posite thereto the name of the one of said municipal corporations of which he is a qualified voter. . « ■'.-■:-- WILMINGTON ELATED OVER •i;in COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION WILMINGTON, June Residents of Wilmington are greatly pleased with the comprehensiveness of the consoli dation committee's report regarding the larger city's altitude toward the rights of Wilmington, and particularly in relation to the continuation and en largement of the municipal improve ments on the harbor already started by the Wilmington trustees. Petitions are already in circulation here and will be quickly signed up and forwarded to the Los Angeles city council. F. S. Carey, who attended the coun cil meeting at Los Angeles today was greatly pleased with the outcome. "Consolidation as It has been worked out means a great deal for Wilming ton,'' he said tonight. "I believe In a few years we shall see a population of 15,000 to 20,000 here, engaged In trans action of an Immense shipping busi ness. The harbor movement as it has been developed, and promises to work out means the saving of millions of dollars anually to Los Angeles county In freight rates alone." TWO MLN DIE FOLLOWING CONTACT WITH LIVE WIRE Hang Suspended in Air Eleven Mm. utes Before Released from Con tact with Current ; ENID, Okla., June B.—While working at the top of an electric light pole here today James Hloodsworth and June Weekly, line men, came in contact with a wire carrying 2400 volts rf electricity, and hung suspended In '.'• air for elev en minutes. Finally the wires were cut and both men dropped to the ground, dying soon afterward. Bloodsworth became entangled in the wires, and Weekly attempted to rescue him. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR STUDENTS EXPLAINED Teachers from Los Angeles High School Elucidate Law in Hollywood HOLLYWOOD, June Prof. Leslie and Dr. True of the Los Angeles high school addressed a meeting held in Wil tix auditorium this evening. . The meeting was in the interest of education and to give the people of this city some suggestions as to the carry ing out of the new law regarding the physical examination of pupils that was passed ■by the last legislature through the efforts of Prof. Leslie. After the speeches a round table dis cussion was held, at which Prof. Leslie answered numerous questions asked by citizens regarding the law and Its work ings. Dr. W. H. Snyder, principal of the Hollywood Union high school, pre sided at the meeting and made a short Introductory address. Mrs. Phllo J. Beverldge gave the free use of the hall lor the occasion. »-*—r— ■ ■ Pupils to Entertain HOLLYWOOD, June B.—The first of the graduation exercises of the gram-| mar school of this city will be held-to-, morrow- afternoon, when the .parents | wil be entertained at the school build-[ ings by the pupils. An appropriate pro gram has been arranged for the occa sion The commencement exercises will be held in Wilcox auditorium Thursday ■evening. The class this year numbers forty-five, a less number than' was graduated a year ago. ?________*■ EAST SIDE STREETS WILL BE IMPROVED IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION DISCUSSES PAVING Councilman Dromgold Meets with Or. ganization and Outlines System, Which Is Approved by Mem. bers Present The East Side Improvement associa tion held a meeting last evening at Conaty hall for the purpose of discuss ing tho proposed paving of the streets in that section of the city. Work will be begun in the near future on all streets crossing Downey avenue from the Los Angeles river to Eastlake avenue, the proposition being to pave these streets one block south and two blocks north of Downey avenue. Councilman R. W. Dromgold ad dressed the association, of which Jo seph Mesmcr is president. Mr. Drom gold spoke of the importance to that district of an adequate system of street Improvement, and said the only way to do it properly is to form a district as outlined above.' He said the east side has a population of 25,000, and that more people own their homes in that section than in any other section of the city. He spoke of the fact that what little opposition had h<-en encoun tered had been mainly from the more well-to-do citizens, but that these were happily In the minority. ' Air. Drom gold explained in detail the process of macadamizing a street, dwelling oh the process known as oil macadamizatlon, which will be used on all of the streets on which there Is not a car line. On streets occupied by car line asphalt will be used. He stated that the maximum cost of paving the streets, providing they were all done, at one time, thereby procuring better rates, will be not to exceed $1.75 a lineal foot for a sixty foot street without a car line. This amount would be paid off In ten years. He showed the slight additional cost of paving the streets would be Infinitesimal when compared to the in creased value of the property. On Pas adena avenue, said Councilman Drom gold, the cost a lineal foot is $1.85 per year. "Regarding Avenue 20," he continued, "much opposition has been met with In that quarter, but I sincerely trust it will be speedily overcome. Mission road," said he, "will be Improved as soon as possible, but deeds to much of the land must first : ired. which will consume, in all probability, about four months." A motion was made and carried that, the association indorse the plans | for improving the district. ' :" The Something Doing Tract Everybody is interested in Vermont Square, judging from the num ber of inquiries we receive. Want to know about the street work and all that sort of thing. Buyers and prospective buyers seem to be as anxious as we are, and eager to get on the ground. Here's the situation in a nutshell: The city engineer's office has completed the field work, and is now engaged on the profile work, with the assurance that everything will be rushed as fast as possible; and it can't go ahead too fast to suit us. As already stated, water is in over the entire tract. The Home telephone company is stringing its wires. There is something doing all the time. Meanwhile it will be money in the pockets of prospective buyers to select their lots now. They get first choice; they can take advantage of the special discounts given to those who secure the first lots in any block, and who build at once. It is possible to save 20 per cent on the cost of a lot. Vermont Square will not be a whit behind its companion tract, Vermont Avenue Square; we don't think we could say more to either the home seeker or the investor. We'll be glad to see you and to answer questions. _ Vermont Square is on Vernon, Normandie and Western avenuds. Take Grand avenue car on Broadway marked "West 4Sth St."-5 cent fare-and get off at Vermont Ave. or Normandie Ave. Lots $650 and Up=Very Easy Terms No Taxes to Pay Until October, 1910 Southwest Land Company Home F5978 416 Pacific EIeCtHC Building Sunset Main 1340 C. A. Wesbecher, Tract Agent, Phones: Sunset South 3557; Home 29086 ffifeS Wash Goods )S«^ W^ and Domestics 'w4^^/ Wonderful Price Offerings Today Do you remember a year ago our great sale of Arnold's wash goods, at the ridiculous pricesitot Drevailod' Well, the department is up against these records. Hence this bold, determined effort to reach a higher sales level. We think the prices we submit here will accomplish the object. NEW MERCERIZED IE- |J N ™C™™ 29c COLORED POPLINS lOW LINEN SUITING _W7»v __, v _ , ' *L „,,_ it ,™ to bring the crowd, for Here's another of the season's favorite fabrics. We We are banking on tins lb^m to M'"» ™ suitings. give you choice of pink, old rose, light blue, laven- It's one of the most popular of all of summer bu » tier , jght green ftn( , navy A highly mercerized We arc ready to present, not an Insignificant ga.n<i.i« M] . pn tha( . se]1 _ everywhere at 60c. We're going after of undesirable colorings, but the beautiful shades of old a blg . day 1n this depar tment today, hence we name rose light blue cadet, navy, tan, lavender, brown, car- the price 20c yard, * -;, dinai as weTas white and black. We have hurried it FIGURED LAWNS O forward from the receiving room in time to make FLORAL DESIGNS OW headliner of it for today. It's one Of th€.most mpo - Hght tant prices we've named this season. Be sure iu a.c grounds: both floral and conventional designs. Today a liberal quantity of this. the price will be Bc. ■DOTMri7<s<s Hr __■.■. 50 PIECES FANCY *_ 3 - __STUmI 51LK...... '**25C COLORED LAWN 3jC You ETthWrind°daV „lvry y p,f ea br yiC £ desirable ™y« shades, both light and dark very pi-i J ___ flnd Jt & very pract , cal material for kimonos and wear. Sale price 25c. house dresses. 50 pieces only, while they last, yard BLEACHED MUSLINS C r »%c. FROM BTO 12 OW INDIGO BLUE AND C- These are the 36-inch bleached muslins; good desir- GRAY DRESS PRINTS .OL> able mill lengths from the usual 7 _C, 8 l-3c ana ±u_ Q^ case Qf , these jndJgo blue and _ ay groud prints qualities; limit 10 yards to a -customer. No pnone or with „ e at stripes and dots; limit 10 yards. No phone mail orders. f-V Y or mail orders; yard sc. Y'i .. 25c AND 35c COLORED IC r FLOWERED ' IC r EMBROIDERED SWISSES lOW ORGANDIE , I*JW Fine sheer swiss in light grounds; embroidery figures Very fine sheer organdies. In the most wanted color- In colors, wove., stripes and plaids; very pretty sum- Ings; a usual 20. grade; priced for today, third floor, mcr material; today, yard 15c. yard loc. -...,:. ? . __^___