Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-06
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
EDITED ny BnfxK MEADR SMITH.
rAe ru,.re .s Lo. Angeles.

Ia destined 10 become great metropo-
lis. Its future is not dimly forshad-
owed, 1t is boldly written upon its
face. IL not only will be, but IL is a
great metropolis; great in promise
that Hnse like . mettlesome horse
seems chaang to fulfill. II is lifli-
cult, indeed, TO realize that the ex-
tended city Of to-day is the sleepy
Spanish town Of few short years ago.
Houses multiply like weeds after
copious rainfall, while colossal busi-
mes structures seem to spring up in a
night. Even we, who live right un-
der the shadow OF this phenomenal
growth, oan barely comprehend or
believe IL. We zee, we cannot fail to
see it, II is true, but sometimes we
are almost inclined TO ascribe the
progress to some optical illusion, or
secretly TO cherish the opinion
that gods or fairies are still OK
tant, and that in the witching
moonlight, they have conspired to
mystify as we'll as TO enchant man
kink. The effect that this unpre-
cedented pro gress is producing upon
the world at large, and California in
particular Is clearly denoted by the in
ordinate jealousy Of San Francisco,
and tho raDcorous attacks Of the East
ern press, Philadelphia excepted, up
on Southern California. II there WAS
nothing 10 be jealous Of, nobody would
be jealous, that is GER
tain; 80 that every malediction
can literally be construed in
into benediction. In remembrance
OF the frightful storms of the past
winter, il is not remarkable, either,
that the frost-bitten East should take
fright at the rose colored, but not ex-
aggerated accounts OF this home of
the orange and the grape. Neither is
IL wonderful that San Francisco,
which has so long reigned supreme
over the Pacific Coast, should resent
the presence Of 80 near and so
powerful q rival. Since the solution
Of the water problem, and that
crystal fluid Is daily becoming more
abundant, since nature has placed no
restriction by which the area Of the
city can be limited, and since from
every eminence the sea can be dis
tinctIy seen, who is bold enough to
assert that anything is impossible to
Los Angeles. IL orange groves can be
irrigated. factories of any description
can be run, il only by the accumula-
ton OF the snow upon Old Baldy and
San Bernardino. To become rail
road center, too, Los Angeles has
merely to lay tracks and erect
depots; while between her and COM
merce lies but few miles OF land
ready TO be occupied, and some coast
deficiencies that the genius of man
can readily compel to succumb.
What If she is an inland city--cannot
she stretch out toward the surf, the
roar Of which is already heard from
afar. Then, too, all that is needed to
give her manufacturing import
ance, is to convince capitalists
that the field is open, and that when
the vast looms are set in motion to
encourage emigration by second era
the East and Europe are teeming with
discontented poor, who would only be
happy to migrate to the semit-ropical
West il once they could be assured
that standing room was open to them
there. These are the people, rough
handed and impoverished as they are,
who set trade moving to the
sound OF quick music, and with
out whom no section can be
permanently strong. We want
them in Southern California we m ust
have them in Southern California,
and he who breaks the way for them,
will not only benefit himself but be-
come q public benefactor. But intla-
tion, speculation, and inordinate indi-
vidual aggrandizement,w will never give
to Los Angeles the human muscle it
requires; and therefore it is encour-
aging to observe that the craze to sell
is wellnigh over, that rents are COM
ing down and that it is now possible
for poor people to live in comfortable
instead of overcrowded quarters as
heretofore. 1t is useless for land
lords to deny that rented houses are
multiplying as fast as houses for sale
are decreasing; or on the other hand
to affirm that the coming winter will
restore the former eXorbitant rates
they never will be restored, because a
new and better era has dawned
upon the City OF the Angels, Then
too, when the tourists pour in upon
us in years to come, as they never
did in years past, they will
find commodious lodging houses,
countless restaurants and fine
hotels, ready to accommodate them.
They will find, too, a climate more
deserved by angels than by men, and
city which, from business stand
point, cannot be rivaled. Among these
tourists who are yet to come will be
found those elements of capital, brain
and invention now required to perfect
and to enlarge the mercantile and
commercial interests of the metrop-
oils OF the South, and which, when
located and in operation, will make
Los Angeles the marvel and the envy
of the whole world.
The Barred Door.
To-day, there is not one door bar.