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Show H 00 I IN THE HARBOR OF LOS ANGELES An important event in Panne coast I transportation was the arrival at s,in I Pedro harbor on last Thursday ot the ' first of eight passenger and freighi I steamers operalJng through the Pan j ama canal and sailing regularly from Baltimore for Asiatic ports H For years the Pacific coast has en H joyed preferential rates on freight i hauled by railroads, based on the flc 1 1 ion thai great steamer lines earrle l 'cargoes from the Atlantic to the Pa Itlftc. During the greater part of the past forty years there was no ocean traffic to UBtlfy the granting of the 'water terminal rates which were made i by the railroads, but now an active 'business is being established In water 1 1 ransportat ion. and by ships steaming regularly between the pons of the Ai lantic and the Orient, put in si Ran I Pedro harbor. On Thursday, when the first ship of the new service arrived, the mayor j of Uos Angeles was at the San Pedro Ihnrbor to welcome the navigators and I proclaim to the w orld the fact thai I ocean 'Carriers engaged in fostering American trade on the other side of .the Pacific regularly made LOS An geles harbor a port of call. Many readers will nol understand the use of the term San Pedro harbor and Ixis ngr-r harbor as meaning onp and the same thing. Years ago, in order to be known as a seaport, Los Angeles annexed a long tslrip of land extending from I.os An Igeles to the ocean, including San I I Pedro harbor, so that today, instead : of reierring to San Pedro harbor when any event of passing importance oc icurs there, the Los Angi les paper I Uell of Los Angeles harbor, it is a ! form of boost unknown to any place I loutsido of California, where everything every-thing possible is done to advertise and hold attention. nf |