Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-22
LOS ANGELES AND CHICAGO IN THE
NEAR FUTURE.

NAAA oAAe
Now and then, in fresh and young
country, it is not out of place to give an
occasional note of progress. :
Just now it looks very much as if
Chicago and Los Angeles will have the
call for along time to come as to grow
ing cities.
In the old days they had great as
pirants for popular favor. Tyre, Sidon,
Carthage and Jerusalem figured extern
Hively, while Rome was getting in her
work as bantling. Troy furnished a
sensational episode in the growth of
cities, which might have had solid de-
velopment except for illicit love. One
of the peculiar features of our modern
day is that, while illicit love still -four
ishes, any cities founded upon it seem
to decay, OF course with the exception of
Chicago.
Just here is where our City of the
Angels comes in with volt power. In
the days when the unit of force was
horse power considerable momentum
was understood when a man intimated
that he intended to deliver blow with
forty horsepower momentum. Now
this simile has lost its force, and volts
come into vogue. Los Angeles is being
propelled by ninety million volt
power.
We are living in the age of steam and
electricity. Rome had seven hills, and
rather diminutive at that. San Fran
cisco has seven and seventy hills, and
all of them would dwarf the Capitoline
or the Pincian. Los Angeles has in
Vulnerable hills, some OF these rising to
the dignity of frst-class mountains.
There is no possibility of ignoring the
fact that, under the shadow of the
Sierra Madre mountains, city unique
and Incompatible is growing up. 1t
will stretch, literally, from the mount
aims to the sea.
In the presidential election of
1886 there was remarkable tie
between Los Angeles and San
Francisco. That is to say, the city
and county of Los Angeles had just half
the registered voters of the city and
county of San Francisco. That was a
great thing, and it was monumental be-
cause, by the census of 1880, the city of
Los Angeles had only II 300 people, and
the city and county together only about
5000 souls.
That this growth in actuality and
ratio will be maintained we have no
doubt. The geographical position OF
Los Angeles is not understood by the
average tourist or investor. This city is
right ON the line of the shortest route
across the continent in the jurisdiction
OF the United States. We have three
outright transcontinental routes. The
first is the Central Pacific. Los
Angeles can ship as freely over this
route as San Francisco, and without
ever going near San Francisco. In
addition we have the Sunset route-a
distinctively Los Angeles line, running
from the Angelic to the Crescent city.
We supplement this cardinal point by
the Santa Fe route-an undoubtedly
Los Angeles transcontinental route with
which San Francisco has nothing to do.
We not only have these accomplished
lines of transportation, but we are sure
of additions to them. There is no doubt
of the fact that the Utah Central rail
way will be pushed from Milford to
Phoebe and from Phoebe to Barstow, in
time to admit of the sending OF thous-
ands and tens of thousands back and
forth from Los Angeles to the Chicago fair. |
This signifies almost unspeakable
things. 1t means that Los Angeles will |
be in the swim of the great tides of com
merce that made Tyre, Sidon, Carthage
and Babylon great points Of commercial
supremacy, and which has made Lon
don, Liverpool, Glasgow and New York
exemplars OF the miraculous develop
ment of the modern world.
Probably neither Chicago nor Los An
geles will. file a caveat to have their
young and ambitious cities made the
arena OF the most phenomenal advance
ment recorded since city-making began
In the world. And that is inst what 10
sure to be recorded, with the caveat nm
thought of. 1t will not hurt us in the
least to do all we can to have the Los
Angeles portion of the approaching
worlds fair boatIeUersement equal or sur
pass the Chicago end. There is no oues-
tion whatsoever but that the worlds
fair in the windy city will be followed
by the biggest boom ever known in Los
Angeles or Southern California. When
the curtain rings down in Chicago after
that polyglot gathering, it will be
question, as to all other cities, of
ECLIPSE is first and the rest are no
where"
1t is good TO know that one is living in
a growing and progressive community.
It is far better to know that one is i'm