Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-24
FAIR RIVERSIDE
To Do Her Part in Booming
the Country.
A Meeting Held Saturday Night
to Devise Ways and Means.
The Pretty LOring Opera House the
Scene of Much ElOquence.
Riverside Will Cooperate With the Other
Counties in california on Wheels
and in the Permanent Exhibit.

On Saturday evening very interest
ing meeting was held at Riverside, to
discuss the proposition of taking part
with Los Angeles and other portions of
Southern California in advertising the
attractions of this section to the world
at large. The charming new opera
house known as the Loring was the
scene of operations, where large num-
ber of the substantial people of that
prosperous town were gathered to take
part in the discussion. Frank A. Miller
of the Hotel Glenwood called the meet
ing to order, and stated its object in
brief address. He then introduced S.
G. Evans as chairman of the meeting,
who more fully explained its purposes
and then introduced Joseph D. Lynch
of the HERALD, as invited to
address the audience on the bene-
from the work of the Los Angeles cham
Riverside her interest in cooperating
with Los Angeles in this good work.
Mr.. Lynch stated that few days pre-
vious he had been invited by his friend,
X. HI. Wade, the efficient general man
ager of the Santa Fe Railroad company,
which has taken so deep an interest in
the work of advertising Southern Cali
tornia, to be present at this meeting to
tell OF the good results being effected by
the Los Angeles chamber of commerce.
He said, among other things: ''lt gives
me very great pleasure to confer with
my excellent friends of this lovely place
upon scheme of cooperation by which
some organized body here may join
hands with the Los Angeles chamber of
commerce in this important work. The
chamber at Los Angeles has been organ
lied only two years, hut in that time it
has accomplished great deal of good
Before go into that, however, allow me
to indulge in a little remeniscence of
Riverside. l first came here when
the plans of the late Judge
North and your chairman of this even
ing were being put into practical opera
ton. Riverside was then in its infancy,
and it was my good fortune to behold
the beginning of what has been the most
magnificent development in the history
of the world. This was in 1878. when
there were two or three houses here,
and when the water ditch had just been
begun. The first hotel had just been
built, and was about to be opened. No
one who looked upon the arid plain
then, trodden for hundred years by
flocks OF sheep, could have dreamt of
the Riverside of today. 1t is but seven
teen years since then, and around us
are the most marvellous results ever
witnessed on the earth. l came up here
by stage. and my friend, the late Colonel
Gatewood, and myself were the only
passengers coming here or returning.
On the same trip we visited Pasadena,
then about to be colonized too. There
was the original old adobe ranch-house
and no more. When we got to Los An
geles we heard many quid nuncs on the
street corners inveighing against DR..
John S. Griffin as having swindled the
colonists by selling them the lands with
water, right where Pasadena now
stands, for So an acre. 1t is not long
ago, but have seen part of that land
sold for 5000 foot and upwards. AS
one comes in here now at Arlington and
rides up Magnolia avenue, if he were to
tell an eastern visitor the age of the
place and the peppers, palms and mag
nolia trees, he would be set down as
worthy to be member of the Sazarac
club, or as being worthy OF the fate of
Ananias.
''All these great results flow from
spirit of cooperation. They all come
from standing shoulder to shoulder, and
each one helping the other.
''Now join with us in this new move
ment and you will see more marvellous
things wrought out in the future than
in the past. The Los Angeles chamber
of commerce, as 1 have said, was
founded little less than two years ago.
There were less than so members at the
start. There are now more than 500, and
there is besides the ladies annex of 450
members. The ladies support their own
organization, by the payment OF fmonthly
dues, and have charge of decorations,
floral displays, and other good work
that materially helps the chamber as
auxiliary to it's plans.
''The chamber of commerce sustains
four great exhibits for the benefit OF the
section. The main one is the exhibit at
Chicago. Daily people come into the
chamber at Los Angeles, sent out by
what they saw at Chicago. A man came
there the other day to inquire for wal
nut land. He was sent to Rivera, and
in twenty-four hours he had bought a
ranch. Another valuable exhibit is
California on Wheels. 1t is doing great
good. Then there is the exhibit at the
state board of trade in San Francisco, and
last oil all the exhibit in Los Angeles.
Besides these the chamber has sent out
twenty-five special exhibits to all parts
of the country. The result is that hum
dreds of letters of inquiry come to Los
Angeles, and that many settlers are
steadily coming into this section. Mr..
Wells, who is here tonight, sent one
Of these exhibits to Kansas, and the re-
suit was that a colony of Dunkards
came out and bought the Ensenada
tract, near Cucamonga. The public
spirited movement which resulted in
the Chicago exhibit was engendered in
the big brain OF D. Freeman. He got
the counties to unite in raising a
fund for it's support. President
Marvel, of the Santa Fe route, came up
in the most generous manner to help
him out. With most liberal spirit he
offered the use OF floor of the Rialto
building in Chicago. rent free, for the
exhibit, and to haul all the products of
the country offered for the exhibit. The
people of Southern California, irrespect-
i've of county lines, ought to come in