Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-08
mONWAN, APRBL s, 1859.
Am Era of ImprOvement-Wh the
Easterner Sees.

Era OF AmpFOVemeht-Nna tne
Easterner Sees.
Contrary to general expectation, we
have had great deal of immigration and |
tourist travel to Los Angeles this year.
The unusually mild winter at the East,
the Presidential election, the over specu
lation in country town lots, all led us to
look for very slight trend of population
of any kind in this direction this season.
These causes have made the movement
late, the immigration for pleasure and
settlement has been more generally dis
tributed over the State than in the past,
but in Los Angeles we have had great
multitudes If the best people of the
United States, and the indications are
that our remarkable increase of pop
ulation, never really seriously arrested,
will be greater than ever next Fall, Win
ter and Spring, though, ofcourse, it will be
less in proportion than in the past. Very
surprising ratios of advance are some
times made in cities of ten thousand in
habitants or less, which OF course cannot
be maintained on larger figures, though
the actual increment may be greater.
Kansas City gave notable instance of
this in the decade between 1850 and
1870, her population having increased
seven hundred per cent. in those ten
years. Los Angeles, in the years since
the census of 1880 was taken, has
afforded even greater study to those
curious in the phenomena of urban
growth; as, in the last eight years, her
population has increased from the IL 800
given her by the census of 1880 to GER
family S5 COO in the current year Of grace.
We have had this large immigration,
composed partly of persons who con-
template actual settlement, and the rest
Of the tourist and valetudinary class,
notwithstanding the fact that this
region has been elsborately writ
ten down, not only by the jour-
nails published in this State which
are inimical to the growth of Southern
California, but by the pIess of the East
ana Northwest. 1t is easy to under
stand the animus of the North
western press. Such places as Kansas
City, Minneapolis, st. Paul, and score
of others, were losing multitudes Ct their
best and most progressive citizens.
Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri,
and the other Northwestern Statee, have
suffere go heavily in this respect that
natural spleen intl ired large portion of
the newspapers published in them. 1t
ic NOT CO pacu 70 d;ripo M \ OF ipcr;xad ~ q
press OF New York City. Fer months
the New York Herald lied about Los An
geles ard Southern California with
vindiciiveness which it is hard to realize.
That journal for long period rarely let
an occasion pass for originating para
graphs designed to iniure this section,
which paragra phs were extensively
copied in the press of the whole
country, and it also adopted the
practice, where it did not originate
this class of matter, of copying
it when it had originated elsewhere.
The zen OF Mr.. Charles Nordhoff, who
wrote so many articles eulogistic of
Southern California for the Tribune, in
the Spring of 1872, which articles he
afterwards embodied in a book, was |
employed on the Herald in decrying
this section at q time when it deserved |
twenty times the recognition he had &C.
corded it in the old days. The Anaheim
which pleased him 60 greatly in 1872 is
etill the Anaheim of that time, although
vastly improved, while score of Ana
helms, and communities even more
populous and prosperous than Anaheim,
have grown up, since his first visit to
Southern California, in Los Angeles
county.
Maugie all this persistent misrepre-
sentation, intended to keep people out
of Southern California, and out of Los
conDty in particular, the people
Of the East have come here in greater
numbers than Angelefios expected. They
bave come here because the press of {
this county has not been idle,. and be-
cause the one hundred and forty thous-
md people from the Eastern States who
have settled in Los Angeles county dur
Dg the past ten years have not lost the f
mack OF writing letters 10 their old .
riends and associates in the old homes, {
nd those letters have been pregnant 6
18th the truth.
What have the new comers seen in
.os Angeles? In the city they have seen =
n amount of public improvements under c
'ay and accomplished, which has not c
cen paralleled in any place on the t
merican continent during the past I
Eelve months, relatively speaking.
hey have seen tremendous amount of C
ew streets splendidly paved, and con- !
Ell ted into serviceable thoroughfares on {
10 most modern principles. They look t
round and see one of the finest systems II
cable cars in the world rapidly APP c.
completion, and find thatit is n
ling carried forward by the most enter is