Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28
BEAUTEOUS BURBANK.
A Suburb Of Sunshine and
Sweetness.
ITS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS.
What the Good People of Los
Angeles Saw and Heard
There.

What the Good People OF Los
Angeles Saw and Heard
There.
Draw a clover leaf. From its apex to
the north and from its stem say it 1t is
twenty-one miles. From side to side oi
the leaf say it is eighteen miles. Let the
stem be narrow and long and extend tc
Los Angeles more than eleven miles and
you have the contour of San Fernando
valley. On one side of the encircled low
illness place the Sierra Madre range and
on the other the Santa Monica range. In
this beauty-spot of nature place the town
of Burbank, and you have picture
which even South California with all its
magnificent attributes is proud to ex-
hibit. In this garden-spot of all the
world there is everything to brag about.
Not more than ten or twelve
days in the year sees it
without continuous sunshine, as the night
Is kindly and sends its rain then. Any
thing can be grown there-the finest
peaches on the continent-eveu peanuts.
apples, oranges, anything; just tickle the
soil and see the blossoming. Away back
in the ifties many old-timers will recall
to mind how old John Scott produced
enough wheat in the end of the valley
nearest to Los Angeles to keep agoing
the Eagle Mills of the then adobe town.
Yesterday the later risers, who do not
catch the worm, heard the inspiring
strains of Meine Bros band, and at the
Temple street terminus of the cable road
saw nearly 800 people take the cars and
proceed by the way OF the Los
Angeles and Pacific Railroad to Bur-
bank. All this ado was an
inspection by invitation Of Bryant's
Southern California Furniture and Man.
tel Factory. The trains of visitors were
met by Mr.. Bryant and escorted to the
factory, where an hour was spent in look
ing at the various details of work, and
the skilled workmen. The factory is a
brick structure, with granite foundation,
three stories high, and 75x200 feet i'll di-
mensions; this is independent of the en-
CINE and boiler room, which is brick
room forty feet square, and which ad-
Joins the main building on the southwest
corner. On the south side of the factory
is the dry kiln and the oil house.
The factory is owned by stock COM
pany, of which r. H. Bryant, the found
er, is President, F. G. Hogland, Secre-
tary and Treasurer, and G. J. Swenson,
Mr.. Bryant has been
connected with furniture manufacturing
for about thirty years, Mr.. Hogland has
been Secretary and Treasurer, and MIR.
Swenson Superintendent of the Rockford
Cooperative Furniture Factory for a
number of years, and the skilled work
men are the best that could be secured
from the best factories of the east. The
capital stock is 100000, nearly all of
which has been paid up.
The gentlemen who own the plant
have shown good business judgment in
selecting their machinery, purchasing
the very latest improved, and all the
labor-saving inventions that were on the
market, and by the system that they
have adopted they are enabled to manu-
facture cheaper than any other estab-
lishment of the kind in the Union, and
still pay their operatives good wages.
The plant is the largest west of Chicago,
and the seventh largest in the United
OlaL6b, auQ Lu6T0 are uOW ON0T Ouc ulu-
dred men on the pay roll.
The factory has an excellent plan of
placing machinery, and the departments
are SO situated as to cause the least work
in moving the material, and there is a
steady stream of lumber from tne dry
kiln to the shipping room. The motive
power is a 100 horse power Allis- Corlis
engine, and the shafting is all on the
ceiling of the basement, thus avoiding
possibilities of accidents from the betting.
And every other portion is on as care.
full scale.
The building is divided into depart
ments, such as the designing, machinery,
upholstery, setting-up, cabinet makers,
engravers, fnishers, ETC., and the COM
pany is prepared to make anything in
the line from a common chair to the
finest drawing-room set, guaranteeing
superior work and cheaper prices than
any other house. Several of the very
best designers of the Union have been
engaged, and the factory is on work Of
their own patterns, equally as fine as
the best made. Special attention is
given to interior decorating, and special
designs.
The inspection of the factory concluded
the guests dined at the completest host
elry of the town. The menu was excel
lent, and Mrs. Bryant added to the
enjoyment of the repast by her presence
and direction. After dinner the factory
was sought again and speech making
was in order. Mr.. R. H. Bryant called
upon Mayor Workman, of Los Angeles
to take the Chair. In accepting the
honor Mayor Workman was most felici-
tous in his address, and said: We have
met here to-day for the purpose of en-
couraging our friends in Burbank, and
every success of it is the success Of our
common country. The city Of Los An
geles stands with and praises the pluck
OF Mr.. Bryant in his distinguished effort.
General Briefly, when called upon by
the Mayor, spoke forcibly and to the
point. He called upon all interested in
the prosperity of the county to buy the
furniture produced in the maiden factory
of South California. He eulogzed the
business sagacity of Mr.. Bryant and
drew attention to the fact that the future
of Los Angeles County rested upon like
industries and enterprises.
Mr.. Will D. Gould was introduced and
made a neat oration. He said that he
was not one of the number called upon tc
apologize for the absence of Judge Brun.
son. He was. he said, an absorber oi
the good things of the valley. A
very sober, very thrifty and q
very industrious people had come up as
roses in the wilderness. The privileges
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