The sun., 1888-04-22
IN Los ANGELES CITY.
Wages, Reuts, Cost Of Living. and Some taias
ASSut the Real Estate Men.

ASsut the Real Estate Men.
The Los Angeles Post Office has six gen.
eral delivery windows to accomodate the great
number OF visitors and strangers. The city is
full OF business and In wet weather the streets
are muddy. for the town has grown so fast that
many OF the streets remain unpnved. Work is
being done In that direction. The old part OF
the town makes but little show. for the new
city has almost overrun and entirely eclinscd
1t. The city has encroached upon neighboring
hills that once were thought Of little value, but
that now are held at high prices. Some beauh
ful residences have been built on these hills
and elsewhere In the city. but not 30 many rs
would be found In Eastern cities OF the same
sizo. 1t Is as though the Inhabitants had bocn
SO busy with the rush of business OF the boom
that they had not found time to devote to
building fine houses but there are streets in
various parts OF the town that are lined with
pretty but comparatively unpretentious homes.
On the terraces the grass was green in Febru-
ary end yoses were In bloom. Besides the sew
eral lines Of horse cars there are two lines Of
cable cars. One Of the cable lines in crossing
the hills takes grades and goes through cuts
that are sleeper and deeper than any in
San Francisco. tho home of the cable car.
You see many one-story houses. The planted
and some kinds OF palms. Small hotels abound.
Open doors and windows are an ordinary sight
street cars are common. It is cooler In the
evening; and overc9ats are useful. The city is
which are, placed on the, hills. Seen from the
that nfghifa!I sometimes brings, these higher
building is going on actively, but perhaps
not 50 much 80 as visitors HID
being put into the Buildings % There has S been s
eases dsys
lack Of special materials that are needed TO
MAKE make the whole, as for Instance. lime; great
ers teri senersls receive now s. 50 to 81 day and
sSrse g., Of Wages @APs bsen
but carpenters have. come from all over
ss anS aSSns gnes Ts s Is
now no scarcity Of skilled mechanics. Machn,
ths samS sy as Seps i d
vantage for carpenters and others doing out,
door work and that Is that l. may ss oS%eI
EXCEPT
In the rainy season WHICH h does not Ssyerasss
work Work are % nine hoSrs day except on na
days. when they are eight and half hours
csrs sn as{ other men of indoor
occupations receive about the same pay rs
elsewhere, and the supply Of men is ample
Women to cook and do housework. such as get
s$5 = month ia Los angeles. With lie, yashins
al PVT out out Mousemaaids 1a X get go and s25
saq ae Rs hsse prcss al
Francisco Vegetables are cheaper than In the
coal, is much more costly than in the East, but,
the climate being far more temperate. much
less than in the East,
Five dollars POI room per M month is abont '1s; the
e ten blocks from the business part Of the city.
monS Eearer hs psrt fSS. eS
cost more house Of four rooms three blocks
some less desirable parts Of the city houses Of
four rooms % with water. water. half dozen SQUARES
1S the poh os sSSe HOUSES Be d aS3 le for s9
mile from business, rent for $40 a month. and
Wh ana kehe9 Sudns wthn
one mile Of the business, centre, rent Tor 500 to
are SisS: single iodsins rooms In blocks in
and apRars ps ns s sy rsn s sso
Eh bath in the buspess par. Of town
iookiY for e. chance to make money,
about es fus deep w thirty HRt es
wide. standing In street upon which business
each side d The dwsns % He leased @ iS'h the 'front.' u"
for 81 Sadns for a pit pSvae
S sssss eaa One store eshsss
e month; the smaller N a store he leased for s15 a
psr dost eadne Hfdf Gs ontay f
year, s94o Income, $2.4OO; profit sl.46O and the
There are about 450 real estate agents In Los
Angeles which is about 100 less than there
T2 o S h1sS nd% wnS
gone out OF the business but in city Of G5.OOO
400 real estate Offices ma make con-
q bcots au hem 's
% Just as men dock to 81 new % mining s camp. mp and t
great many Of them are lightning smart men.
The great spscplatiye land operations 4 are now @
other Western points There ere comparative
The dealers, big and little. are keen men OF
all ages. There arc large. calm mon. of dignified
conservative manner and speech seem to leave
no no room Tor doubt q the values OF the nioler-
tss ahsy esr 6is
whose confdencs in the future, Of, the coup,ry
is bopndless, and who have no doubt that what
over land you may buy will be sure to increase
region. some OF the agents here keep teams
visitors TO lands that they have for sale Many
an Eastern visitor who has taken a ride In
| at the lands has chuckled to himself over his
smartness IN standing the rea! estate man np
is oqt ess, taaG kl St
poets it., And many such rides have ended to
his profit.
| size, many are OF comfortable dimensions, wilh
big iron safes and good office furniture and u
| Of them occupy big places OF business such as
are ordinarily devoted to commercial purMits.
large, tracts. has, an immense place like. a
Broadway store. hung on the sides with pic
the centre OF the store 10 long row OF plaeards
hamiIg the lands which the Office has to offer.
dozen or twenty spaces making as many Offices.
Coiored lithograph maps are displayed n AM. and
containing norld descriptions Of nature.
favored localities are hung In front OF
css ws, sas n IN ssn sSaaT tn9s
| facilitate repairs, A bunch Of hanihiils was