Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1914 — Wharf Built Snakelike to Buffet Seas. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wharf Built Snakelike to Buffet Seas.

Los Angeles has tee distinction of possessing one of the longest wharves In Ahe world—a curious snake-like structure much resembling a breakwater —which extends out into the Pacific from tee harbor of tee beautiful west coast city 4,700 feet The peculiar shape of this wharf was designed that it might offer a

A Serpentine Wharf Nearly a Mile, better resistance to the ocean currents and the heavy seas. For a long time, In fact, until the nearby harbor of the port, San Pedro Harbor, was developed, this wharf teemed with shipping business and was lined with ships, steamers and sailing vessels of all kinds, loading and unloading. As an engineering feat when built It attracted the interest of wharf and breakwater builders the country over. To-day the wharf is seldom used except by the Japanese fishermen, who have established a colony along the nearby beach, which in stormy weather lies protected from the rush of the seas by this mile-long barricade to'the waves. —Scientific American.