Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-23
BURBANK LETTER.
Our New stores. Union Depot, and
other Improvements.


other improvements.
Our pretty little town continues to grow
and thrive. Our northern cousins de-
clare the shattered boom is creeping up
to them; thoy are welcome to all that
gets away from us, for we are busily gath
ering in the fragments as they 60 by. The
furniture factory will be ready for work
ON the first of August. 1t has been made
a corporation and has money enough to
back it to insure its success and also that
Of the town which contains it. The man.
ager OF one of the departments is expected
daily with fifty operatives and their FAM
lilies, and accommodations for them
are being rapidly built. The en-
gine and machinery are unusually
powerful and efficient, and prove
the intention of the management to turn
out an immense lot of first-class work.
R. H. Bryant, the originator of the
factory, has leased the Villa Hotel and
bought all the furniture and fixtures it
contained. He has good manger, and
the hotel will certainly be as successful
under his supervision as under his pre-
decessors. The grounds are looking love-
ly and certainly repay the gardener for
the amount of work he bestowed on
them.
Burbank is especially favored in re-
gard to freedom from dust. While
neighboring towns are being almost suf-
focated with the clouds of fine dust con-
stantly flying in the atmosphere, we are
comparatively free from the annoyance.
Our streets are SO carefully tended, and
the street sprinkler so constantly in use
that we can boast of this advantage with
truth.
The first of the fruit crop is about
over, but the second crop promises
to be larger and better. Apri.
cots have been quite plentiful and
of an excellent quality, while the other
varieties were equally fine. 1t must be
remembered that all fruit, berries
grapes and vegetables grown in this
tionally fine flavor and firm and solic
meat. When the trees set out this
spring are in bearing, we can supply 8
couple of canneries.
Since the completion OF the Los An
geles County Railroad the travel has in.
creased greatly, and the time of TIE
trains is very convenient; quite a mum
Der of men doing business in the city have
made arrangements to live in Burbanl
and 60 in daily. The time schedule does
not interfere with the Southern Pacific
travel or traffic, and union depot is te
be built Immediately. This will certainly
be great accommodation to both roads
and also to the travelling public.
The public school house is ready fol
occupancy, and will be opened when the
next term begins. Two teachers will be
employed the coming year, and it will
not be long before all four of the rooms
are used if our population increases in
the same ratio it has in the past year. The
Methodist Church was opened for service
for the first time on Sunday morning bu
was not formally dedicated; that cere
mony will take place in the near future
The building is very pretty externally
and has an exceedingly tasty and con
venient interior. The furnishing is in
keeping with the coloring.
There is one especial thing which Bur.
bankers have to be thankful for, and thai
is that there are no mosquitoes or gnatI
to annoy them; the cool breeze tina
blows every day is undoubtedly the rea
son of their absence, and perhaps tht
elevated position of the town also hal
something to do with it.
There are number of residences to b,
commenced Immediately, some of then
to be quite large and imposing. We nov
number drug sture and home baker,
among the list of our stores, with th,
promise of plumbing and tinsmiihing
and also shoemaker shop. We fee
very much encouraged by the strides W,
have made, and see no reason why they
should not continue. We had our frs
birthday on the 18th of June, and con
slider that we have done remarkably wei
for one year. NIxY.