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Bartling, Prop. * Opposite Desmond's Community In tlio hereafter the man encountered .1 singular s«'up of animals—two or avers, an otter and some seals, all shivering., though the climate, to nay the least of it, was mild. "We wore skinned for your wife's furs!" they explained civilly, upon ob iorvlng his perplexity. lie started and broken into a loud "go was J!" quoth in*, and Joined them; and thenceforth tbev wandered »n together.—luck. Harbor Meeting in 1847 A river and harbor convention was hold in Chicago In July, 1847. Dele gates from nineteen states attended. Abraham Lincoln was there as a dele- Kate from Hanyamon county, and made a brief speech. Horace Greeley was present, representing the New York Tribune. In an article, published in that paper Saturday, July 17, 1847, he said: "A Judicious estimate makes tile number present today 20,000 men, of whom 10,000 are hero as members of the convention." 1 Los Angeles Sunday Herald SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 11)10. CRAIG BUILDING TWO STEEL SHIPS LONG BEACH PLANT A BUSY SCENE IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY IS DEMONSTRATED Cost of Vessels at Present Under Con. struction, to Be Launched In Eight Months, Is Nearly a Million Dollars Already building two seagoing ves sels which are larger than any ever yet launched In Southern California wa ters, and which are to cost $425,000 each, the Craig Shipbuilding company of Long Beach is Improving the im portance of the new and largo Industry it has located In Los Angeles county. Other contracts are being considered, and there is every indication that the shipbuilding concern will know no pe riods of idleness from this time on. Steel vessels up to 600 feet In length can be built at the Craig company's new plant. Two vessels, one 260 feet lons and one 266 feet, practically sister whips, are now in course of construc tion. They are to be of steel construc tion and will be launched In about eight months. The building of ships IS no experi ment with John F. Craig, president of the company, or to tho skilled ■work men in his employ. John P. Craig hits been a shipbuilder for years. His fa ther, John Craig, F.r., was a shipbuilder before him, and his son was brought up in tho business. The father still i takes great interest in the business, but has retired. , The Craig company owned a largo plant at Toledo, Ohio, for years, and these turned out a large number of the big vessels now plying on the lakes as well as several now working up and down the Pacific coast. Among the latter may be mentioned the Indian apolis, the fastest vessel on the I'uget sound run; the Iroquols and Chippewa, on tho Victoria run; tho Meteor and Redondo, which have been frequent callers at Han Pedro, and tho Buckman and tho Watson, which are operated between San Francisco and Seattle. Long Beach Secures Plant A few years ago tho company sold out its Toledo plant, deciding to move westward and southward, where a glowing future In shipping was fore aeen. There ensued a friendly struggle between various cities to secure tho plant. San Diego and Wilmington each hoped to gain the coveted prize, but at an enthusiastic public meeting held at Long B»ach nearly $100,000 wag raised one afternoon by subscription to pay for desirable acreage along th" new Long Beach harbor, to be donated to the CralgS as a- site. This move proved successful, and a contract be tween John Craig, sr., John F. Craig and the Los Angeles Dock and Terml i nal company, makers of tho Long Beach harbor, was signed soon after -1 ward. | The sito comprises between thirty five and forty acres on channel No. 8, the principal channel of the harbor. The ground is near tho ocean entrance and but a short distance from the im mense bascule bridge which the Salt Lake Railway company built across the mouth of the harbor at a cost of $2M,U00, in compliance with the war department's order. The securing of the plant was recognized as a big boost for the harbor, as it is expected to draw other enterprises this way. Two score carloads of machinery wero shipped here from the east, a number of buildings were put up, including of fice building, foundry, machine shop and electrical building; a bulkhead i was put in along the waterfront and work was begun on shipways and a ! dry dock. The first contract given tho new company was for a huge elec trical suction dredger for tile Western Marino Dredging company, which had contracted to complete the dredging for the tlock and terminal company. The launching of tho hull of this dredger was an event. Soon came tin- announcement that President <~'rais had secured a contract to build a STGjpOO seagoing- tug for the Western Pacillc Railway company. The tug was built, successfully launched, taken to San Francisco and is In use, bea^ig the name Vergil Bogue. The tug was built for much less money than the amounts named in the bids of San Francisco and other northern ship builders. New Corporation Launched The benefits accruing from the con trol of freight steamers, as explained to local business men by Air. Craig and his father, aroused local sentiment to the extent that within the past fow I months Long Beach citizens have suc ceeded in capitalizing a new corpora tion, tho Western Steam Navigation company, which has awarded to tho Craig company a contract to build a steel steamship for both freight and passenger service at a cost of $195,000. R. H. Swayno and J. O. Hoyt, San Francisco shipping agents, are inter ested, and George H. Bixby, P. K. Hatch and Stephen Townsend are among the local men who have certi fied their confidence in the project by investing heavily In it. A. M. Shook, representative of the Navigation com pany, is enthusiastic over the shipping business and has interested many others here in the present project. About the time that the steel for the Western Navigation company's ship was ordered President Craig learned of the determination of the Hammond T,umber company of San Francisco to build a freight steamer. Being able to offer a low bid. by reason of having ] specifications and patterns on hand, be secured a contract to build a vessel ,'ilniijst exactly liko the ono already contracted for, the only difference be ing In the length and in tho cabin ar rangement. The keel of the Welters Navigation company's ship is more than half laid and the work is progressing as rapidly as is possible. Delays in recent ship ments of slecl and a shortage of skilled workmen have .somewhat delayed mat ters. President Craig is now in the oast, securing a number of trained shipbuilders, who formerly were em ployed by him in the east. He is ex pected to return next week. The ship being built for the Navi gation company Is to be 260 feet long, with 42 feet bourn and a molded depth of mi feet. It will have a capacity for carrying 1,500,000 feet of lumber, and also sixty-four first class and lifty seven second-class passenger*. The ship wil bo used for coastwise traffic, and with two exceptions it will bo the largest craft entering south coast har bors. Tt will take tlio place of the Redondo, which recently was sold, as M was i|<>t (if sufficient size to fill the demands of traffic. The new steamer, which will bo built entirely of steel, will have trlplo ex- Big Shipbuilding Plant at Long Beach Busy Turning Out Seagoing Vessels „ ; »WftW T » ..i-iih.nn-nn. «*">*> >nn)/i.\, rf-». ,_ 111 11111 S^^^^S^ Upper left —View along keel of ship being built for the Western Navi. gation company. Lower left—Blocks ready for keel of ship being built for the Hammond Lumber company. Upper right—One of immense machines which shape and cut steel plates as if they were paper. Lower right—One of the buildings of the Craig Shipbuilding company. I panaion, surface condensing engines, ■ IS, :!0 and 50 Inches in diameter by a ' 36-inch stroke, developing 4r>oo Indicated hone power. ' The vessel will have a speed of 12V4 knots, or 340 lnnd miles a i day. It will he equipped with a steam steering device, steam hoist and steam ! windlass, an electric light plant and searchlight, and possibly wireless. It will comply with all the regulations of I the United States Inspectors and the. I American Bureau of Shipping. More than half of the keel has hcon laid, in steel plates live-eighths of an ; inch thick, which have been cut, : punched and shaped in the heavy machines at the plant. The plates are bolted together temporarily, and after all are set will be riveted together. Compressed air is used. Two giant traveling cranes carry the steel plates from the railway spur tracks to the machines, and from the ! machines to the ways, where they are put in place. The plates are handled at the machines by skilled workmen of long experience. Just east of where the keel is being laid fnr this ship blocks have been set in place for the Hammond company's vessel. It is to be 266 feet long, with the same beam and molded depth as the other. The cost of this ship will be $226,000. It will not be equipped for carrying passengers. It will have triple expansion engines. The ship ways are nn platforms built on piling. A hung floating drydook is being completed at the ship plant. It is being built in sections which re semble gigantic boxes of exleremely strong construction. Two of these sec tions have been launched, and there will he at least seven mere. Bach section measures about 1(10x40 feet. One of the invaluable men about the plnnt is A. K. Hudson, Who for yen's has been tho designer and draughts man of the company. It is no small "thing to prepare the specifications for a great vessel. Mr. Hudson numbers every section that will be needed in the craft. Each section then is stamped with tho number and the "row" in which it is to go. Some Interesting model 3 may be seen in the designing room. One of them is a model for a yacht which was built by the company j at Toledo for Judge Longworth, father of Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati. Tho Craig 1 company manufacturer all the engines used in the vessels it builds. Tho foundry is very complete, Channel to Be Deepened The fact that while the. ships now under way aro being built the harbor channel must bo deepened to permit of their passage out to sea is interesting. The Dock and Terminal company re cently sold to the city $200,000 worth of water frontage, and in the contract It was provided that the channel was to be deepened to a certain extent within a set time. There is no occasion to doubt that tho contract will be ful filled and tho ocean entrance he of suf ficient depth to allow tho passage of biff ships before those now building are completed. The Hammond ship now building is to be completed ill eight months, and the other vessel probably will be finished at about the same time. President Craig is a man of less than middle age, extremely active, ac quainted with every detail of the work that goes on inside his big plant, but modest and retiring. Ho and his fam ily have received a warm welcome into Long Beach society. Mr. Craig at tributes what skill and knowledge he may have of the art of building ships to his father's teachings. Hoth father and son are extremely enthusiastic regarding the future of Southern Cali fornia and the advance of shipping in this vicinity, particularly with the opening of the Panama canal. They regard Los Angeles as a progressive, up-to-date city, and, liko the men who came here with the company, are strongly impressed with tho attractive ness of Southern California as a, place to live, as well as an important com mercial district. President Craig's right-hand men in the plant are, besides Mr. Hudson, H. P. Tobey, secretary of the company; A. L. Becker, general superintendent, and Herbert La France, yard foreman. MAN ROUTED BY HATPIN HELD IN CITY JAIL Police Arrest Masher Who Has Been Annoying Women at Some of Smaller Theaters ]■:. i,. Dlckson, a well dressed young man, who was arrested Friday night for annoying women in moving picture shows in South Main street, pleaded guilty in police court yesterday to a charge of disturbing the peace, pre ferred by Miss Mania and was com mitted to Jail for sentence Monday. According to the police a number of complaints were made by proprietors of tho theaters in South Main street that women in the darkened places were molested by a young man who would sit near them and grasp them by the arms and otherwise annoy them. Two plain clothes officers were de tailed to investigate, and traced the "masher" to the»Olympic theater, where they saw him take a seat next to Miss Taylor. They watched him closely and noticed him grasp the young woman by the arm. Later tho patrolmen saw Miss Taylor move to another seat and a few moments later Dickson followed her. In an instant she pulled a long hat pin from her head and told him to move away or she would jab him with it. Tho officers then steped forward and placed Dickson under arrest. ■» »• CALLED BY DEATH AFTER LIVING NEARLY CENTURY Joseph Lyman, who lacked but a few weeks of being 99 years old, was found di-ad in bed in his room at 524 South Hill street yesterday morning. Tho cause of death was asphyxiation by gas. Tho odor of the escaping gas was de tected early yesterday morning, and it is thought that he turned on the gas 'accidentally after extinguishing the light. . . Mr. Lyman was a former contractor and buildo/ of Quincy, 111., and cam* to Los Artfeeles eleven years ago, since which time he resided at tho address where he died. He had no relatives. Several of his old-time friends have arranged for the funeral service, which will be held Tuesday! at 2 o'clock at the chapel of Dexter Samson. The body will be sent to Quincy to bo buried be sido the bodies of his wife and chtl ilien. There will bo no inquest. The coroner will sign a ccrtiilcto of death. TRASK TO RULE JEFERSONIANS DEMOCRATIC CLUB NUMBERS ELECT OFFICERS WORKS DECLARES GRAFTERS WILL BE EXPOSED Elimination of Party Lines Means of Bringing Good Government Into Power, Says Speaker The Jefferson club celebrated its first anniversary yesterday at the weekly luncheon at the Hollenbeck hotel and then adjourned to the B. P. Coulter building, where officers were elected for the ensuing year. At the luncheon Vice President Al bert Chapelle presided in tin: absence of President I. P. Dockweller, Speeches were made by Charles Wellborn, mem ber of the police commission; Judge John D. Works, president of the city council; Joseph Scott, president of both the chamber of commerce and board of education; T. 11. Kirk and Judge H. C. Dillon. Mr. Wellborn advocated nonpartl panship in municipal affairs, without departing from the Joffersonian prin clplei. Judge Works said in part: "I know no difference between a Democrat and a Republican in mu nicipal affairs. It was in the uniting of the two parties that we have the present economic and good government city officials. But i' cannot be expect ed that the government of a city can rise higher than the public sentiment. No one needs to approach m<j nn any bribery or crookedness without expect ing to I" 1 thoroughly exposed. Hut it is not reasonable that any nine men ran thoroughly regenerate a big city like Ivs Angeles." Joseph Boot! made one of his force ful speeches regarding the school sys tem in Los Angeles. The following officers were elected: President, Judge [>. K. Trask; first vice president, Charles Wellborn; sec ond vice president. Prof. T. H. Kirk; third vice president, J. P. Chandler; fourth vice president, Col, P. P. Firey; treasurer, Harrington Brown: secre tary, H. M. McDonald; asistant sec retary, John D. Roche. The directors are as follows: 11. C. Dillon, \V. O. Morton, J. Wilbur Cate, D. K. Trask, F P Firey, William F. Palmer, J. D. Roche, H. A. Handley, I. B. Dock weller, Walter F. Dunn, w. J. Jarrott, Charles Wellborn, Henry M. McDon ald, R. F. Del Valle. J. M. White, T. H. Kirk, Timothy Ppallaey, Jeff P. Chandler, Mattison 15. Jones, Albert Chapelle, Dr. Z. T. Malaby, O. K. Farislr, D. M. Hammack, Harrington Brown, Dr. S. Y. Van Meter. DOHENY'S GUESTS WILL VISIT OIL TERRITORY Two Private Cars Are Used to Convey Parties Organized by Local Capitalist Mr. and Mrs Edward Ij. Dohony w ill leave tonight In their private cars Es telle and Constitution with a large party of friends to visit tho San Joa quln valley oil fields. Those who accompany thorn are Col. and Mrs. Maurire Gifford, of Boothby hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Monslicad of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Welsh of Fresno, Dr. and Mrs. George Martyn of Fresno, Dr. and Mrs. Nor man Bridge, Mr. and Mrs. .T. Crampton Anderson, C. A. Canfield, J. A. Graves and I*. A. McCray. Real Estate and Classified SAN PEDRO WILL HAVE BIG WHARF HUGE CONTRACT AWARDED IN HARBOR PROJECT DEEP CHANNEL INCLUDED IN EN. TERPRISE More Than Two Million Cubic Feet of Earth Will Be Raised In Con struction of Port lm« provements One of tho largest contracts for dredging ever entered into and which probably will do as much as any other one thing to improve San Pedro harbor was closed yesterday, tho North Ameri can Dredging company and the Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf company be ing the two parties to the agreement. Between March 1, 1310, and Juno 1, 1911, the North American Dredging company has agreed to dig out tho eastern and western channels of tho Miner fill at San Pedro harbor. More than 2,000,000 cubic.feet of earth will bo raised to make a channel sufficiently deep to float the largest liners ana to construct a lir.st class wharf. Work will be begun March 1 on both the eastern and western channels, tho former being 400 feet wide and 5500 feet long, whilo tho dimensions of the latter are 600 by 6000 feet. Situated a little to the southwest of Deadman's island and projecting di rectly Into the ocean, the wharf prom ises to bo ono of the safest and most convenient landings on the Pacifl< coast. After rounding the end of tha lonif breakwater the dork, protected as it will be from storms, will offer a most convenient landing. "I see no reason," .said Secretary (luthridse of tho North American Dreg- Ing company, "why the proposer; wharves should not be as good. If nol better, than any on the Pacific coast." Although it Is known that the pieeo of work will be one of the most ex pensive of its kind ever contemplated no Intimation of the cost of dredgins per cuU yard mi Riven out. "While we are unable to state tha Guthrldgo in speaking of the contract, "I will say the undertaking will cost hundred! of thousands of dollars. The work will be done in deep water. In, some places the dredger working a. depth of twenty-five feet and the earth, Is very difficult to handle," Nnmerous homings made by the com pany have revealed the fact that the earth in which the dredger must work varies In quality, although no great difficulties arc looked for. Two and possibly three machines will be kept constantly at work and employment I given to more than 100 persons. About 7000 feet of wharfage probably will bo ready for use within the next eighteen months, when the first wharf projecting into the ocean ever built on the Pacific coast is completed. If the price paid by the government to the North American Dredging com pany for deepening the entrance to the channel In similar ground should be 50 cents a cubic yard the enterprise would cost close to $1,000,000. It is be lieved the work will be done at a much lower cost, and 27 cents a cubic yard is the figure which many believe will bo paid. Work Rushed on Fill Work is being rushed on the fill by the cutting down of Jv'ob Hill, nearly a . mile away. A big steam shovel is used in cutting down the hill, and the earth. is hauled to the fill over the Pacific Electric tracks by a steam locomotive in specially constructed dump cars. Other projects are on foot to takn down other hills in order to get earth for tho enormous fill which will make land for factories and warehouses. The concession was secured from tho old city of San Pedro in 1906 by Ran dolph 11. Miner, who organized th« Outer Harbor and Dock company to improve it. Controlling interest in this corporation was recently acquired by the Union Oil company, and it is un derstood that a part of the fill will be used for the terminals of this concern. i m the outer end of the fill the city of Han Pedro reserved 1000 feet oC frontage, and two streets leading to it. This frontage will revert to tho city of Los Angeles. It is believed the work is being rushwl in order that the company may comply with a contract With the. American- Hawaiian Steamship company to fur nish docks at which the big steamers of that company may unload freight for J.o.s Ancreli s, received from the Atlan tic via the Tehunntepec route, although no official announcement of such a con tract has been made. MUCH MARRIED "COUNT" HELD UNDER $10,000 BAIL Easterner Accused of Bigamy Will Be Detained Pending Arrival of Officers Karl yon do, Hagen, who claims to b* a Gorman count, and who was arrested several 'days ago, accused of being a bigamist wanted in New Jersey, \va» arraigned in Police Judge Frederick son's court yesterday on a charge of being a fugitive from justice. His ball was fixed at $10,000 pending his prelim inary examination, which was set for January 24. This step is a, mero tech nicality to hold the prisoner until an officer from Hoboken, N. J., arrives to take the count east for trial. Yon do Hagen is alleged to havn mar ried Miss Rcgina Viehelmann of 2501 Third avenue, New York, in Hoboken, two years ago, and then without having obtained a divorco married Miss Pearl Fischer, daughter of a wealthy retired Chicago grocer now living at 945 South Ronnie Brae street. The lattor cere mony was performed in October, 1909. The accused admitted ho had lived with Beveral women in the eastern city, and declared his marriage with Miss Viehelmann was not legal because ho did not have a license and owing to tha tact that tho ceremony was performed on Sunday. U. S. C. SPECIAL COURSES The University of Southern California will continue during the second semes tor to hold Saturday classes for teach era Prof. James Main Dixon will offer two course* on early English, one on. early English poetry and another on grammar. Those special courses will be open to "amateur" students, and It is believed many will take advantage *f the opportunity they give lor study of our language during one i>C its most interesting formative pert The Angel-s grill lias excellent serv« Ice and better food. Fourth and Spring,