Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-27
rnr COMING msrRopoLIs.
Los Angeles in the Van Remarka-
Bile Progress and Future Pros
poets.

Los Angeles is becoming metropolitan
in style and influence. and will soon be
to California what Paris is to France.
Our city is steadily attracting to itself
the best elements Of society, and the
best Of all the results Of art. industry,
science and wealth. We make our own
manners and customs, and methods of
doing business. without looking to see
how such things prevail in the metrop-
oils Of the State.
The fashions Of San Francisco are no
longer tho guide for our ladies. and the
money of that city does not control our
farms and workshops. The rate of
interest is as low in Los Angeles as it is
in the City on the Bay and our banks
have o larger specie surplus, according
to their liabilities, than the banks OF San
Francisco.
We have nc water famine or sand lots.
We did not wait for the city of st.
Francis to light her streets with cleo
tricity, but have set seven stars OF the
Lightning of hoaven, like the 'seven
golden candlesticks, to shine aloft from
onr hilltops and plains, with their violet
beams, like tho symbols that the Rove
lator described in Patmos. These mys-
tic stars have quickened the value of
real estate, and .heir light has even
shone into San Francisco, whose people,
seeing our light shine before men, have
resolved to initiate the example of Los
Angeles and light that dark town with
the same Brush Electric burners as
illumine our city. Owing to the fact that
the town had been SO long in insuffera-
BILE darkness, so that the people thought
1t struck in, like bad relapse of mea-
sles, they have determined to show
fruit meet for repentance, and will
hence set up over two hundred lights,
with 100000 candle power. for which
they will pay S65, $50 annually. This
rather outops our city in number. but
while their lights are thirty feet high,
ours are FIVE times that hight. Another
feature is, that their lights are not up
yet, while ours are, and before they got
their two hundred lamps erected we
shall put up more to accommodate the
rapidly growing City of Angels, which
builds five hundred houses every year,
and walks in robes of light mid, olive,
orange, and pomegranate groves.
While we justly admire the goodly
City Of the Bay, and what it is doing
and has done, candor compels us to say
that the great city of the Pacific Coast
will be Los Angeles. All the elements
are here in abundance for such result,
and the. time is not far distant when
it will be realized. There will be
one vast city extending from the Sierra
Madres to the sea- 1t will lie on both |
sides Of the Arroyo Seco and the Los
Angeles river, and stretch away to San
Pedro and also to Santa Monica.
Capital and enterprise are hand in
hand in the work already. which is pro.
ceeding at rapid rate. Ten years ago
there was one solitary farm house on the
east side of the Arroyo seco, between
the mountains and the Mission Hills.
Now there is settlement of thriving
homes along that stream for seven miles,
and it is approaching the city at the
rate of mile year, and will soon fill
the gap from tho Oak Grove to East Los
Angeles.
That is the way the country is going
forward. Our railways will soon trans
fer sufficient people from Europe and
the eastern side of our continent to fill
out this stretch of city from our beauti-
full mountains to our beau tiful ocean.
1t is half accomplished.