Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-17
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The Opening OF Main Street Neces-
sity- Remarkable improvements
in the First Ward "A Thousand
People Making Homes In that Part
OF the Uity-A New ThorouRhfare
Needed-Liberai Offers from the
People-Let the Authorities Go to
Work.
There is constant complaint from our
citizens that the widening of Bath street
does not begin. The City Council has
ordered, the property holders on the line
have consented to it. and the matter ap-
pears to rest in the hands of the City At
torney. Tho taxpayers along the line
want the suspense, anxiety aud delay.
ahatad. They desire to see this grand
improve rent go forward aud Main street
c RE thro gh to the liver The line
hos been surveyed BY &c City Surveyor.
on an excellent grade, aud it will be a
grand avenue for business and travel
Another reason why this street should
be opened i. The important fact that as
soon as it is opened a dozen capitalists
stand ready to erect stores, warehouses
and dwellings along the line Of the same.
This erection and Improvement of build.
ipgs will add at least 100000 to the
taxable property Of the city within the
next six months The people are ready.
Many have deserted the old houses
along the line, with the expectation that
they would be promptly removed.
Why have they not, been, is the question
asked day after day by The people?
In response to tiiis rox poputi, a re-
porter Of the Herald yesterday made an
examination Of the line from the Plaza
to the Los Angeles river. From the
Plaza to Alameda street the heaviest
work will be done, but there is plenty
of material to be obtained from the old
adobe buildings to make filings around
the bridge over the zanja. Mr.. Beau
dry will donate land on Chavez street.
which is to be Main street. and Mr. II.
W. Mills, the proprietor of the Sabichi
tract has donated the land on the cast
side of the street so that a straight street
sixty feet wide, from the railroad to the
river, can be easily, speedily and cheaply
made and should be done Immediately.
Now is the time to do the work and
plant the shade trees along its side.
That part Of the city is settling up very
rapidly and the people demand graded
street and sidewalks. Two hundred
building lots are being sold off rapidly
and will bs occupied by large popula-
tioa within short time. These settlers
claim that they should have properly
graded streets and are willing to pay for
them. From the junction Of Main street
and the river, Rose street is TO be i'm
proved to bring in the large trade from
the San Gabriel valley, which can come
into town by this grade more ct silly than
by any other, and be out of the way of
the steam cars.
The street railway of Mr.. |. w.
Hellman will pass over a portion OF
Chavez street, and across the river to
East Los Angeles, which will make this
part Of the city in direct communication
with the central and southern portion.
A person who does not examine the facts
in the case has no idea of the rapid prog
ress this part Of the town is making. An
illustration is in point: A gentleman by
the name of Humphrey w. Willett, Of
Kansas, on Tuesday bought two lots on
this Main street line, in the Sabichi tract,
elsewhere advertised in the HERALD.
Yesterday as reporter of the HERALD
passed over the tract he observed the
wife of the purchaser serving out hot
lunch on the lots, on which house was
already arising, SO that the workmer
could save the time required to go q
long distance to tAeir meridian meal
and give more time to the erection Of I
house and hore for her husband ane
family. Such people always succeed
everywhere. Without waiting to see
whether the country was wet or dry, ho'
or cold. or like what they had left behind
them, they waste no time in doubts and
misgivings, but inside Of twenty. foul
hours from the time they possess the soil
they found home and build tlbsr
na,le for its dwelling place.
The phenomenal development of the
country is largely due to just such per
sons a. Mr.. and Mrs. Willett. We
want nation OF homes. not of nomad,
and hoodlums, who are descendants Of
the rowing tribes Of the Arabs, Bedouins
who travel from place to place to steal
living from nature. and give nothing
in return; who plant no gardens, trees
or flowers, but filch q living from all
who by industry and thrift, have gath
cred the stores Of nature by their owr
arduous labors.
No land on the face Of the earth Il
moro responsive to the labor CT the hus
bandman than that Of Southern Cali
fornia, and the HERALD gives "Hsi
and Welcome" to all who come here
to honestly work for themselves and the
welfare of mankind.