The herald., 1893-11-22
amours to some younger and flyer mem
ber Of the embassy, when, perchance,
h:s knowledge would have been vastly
increased.
pRosAIc FACTS ABOUT Los ANGELES.

over all the broad domain of American
lands. There is perhaps no use o.
philosophizing why this should be 80.
We simply know that so it is. The foe,
has been shown indisputsbly by every
issue of the clearing house reports dur.
ing the past two months. During that
period every clearing house in the
United States except that of the Angel
city has shown a diminution of busi-
ness as compared with last year. To be
exact we should say that for one week
New Orleans showed an increased per-
centage of business. For every other
week Los Angeles has been obliged to
carry alone the gonfalon of progress and
rehabilitation.
Such fact should not be passed over
lightly. especially by those who are the
beneficiaries OF such an exceptional
state of things. 1t shows that Los An
geles is on the top wave of prosperity,
and that when the rest of the country is
in the dumps. To employ an astrono-
micsl phrase, Los Angeles is in perihe-
lion while the rest of the country. and
nearly the whole world, is in aphelion.
Or, to vary the phrase, and to resort to
the language of the turf Los Angeles,
like Eclipse, is first and the rest are no.
where.
1t might, under ordinary circum-
stances, be we'll to simply state this fact,
and TO allow it to pass without comment.
But on reflection it may be just as we'll
to give something like the rais0R d'etre
OF this most agreeable state OF things.
One of the sphorisms that have
leaped like bubble from the kaleido-
scopic changes that are 30 common in
the United States is the one which says
that nothing succeeds like success.
And where has there ever been o sue
GEES like unto that which has been
chroniced most notably in Los Angeles,
city and county, and only in less meas
ure in Southern California at large
The Angel city has today probably a
population OF seventy thousand souls.
If there is any insccuracy in this state
ment it consists in not making it
seventy-fve' thousand, which enumera-
tion would be nearer the true figures.
And yet the census of 1880 gave us H.
800, while that OF three years ago put
the figures at 81, 800. The advance in
the population of the county has quite
kept pace with that of the city, if the
fact is borne in mind that, since the
census OF 1890, Orange county has been
segregated from the county of Los An
geles.
The only city OF the United States
that has grown with the rapidity that
has characterized Los Angeles in the
period named, or in anything like the
ratio of that growth, was
Kansas City, in the decade between
1860 and 1870. Some of the epoche of
Chicago also suggest similar ratios, and
there the comparison perforce ends.
The causes of this remarkable growth,
accomplished in the past, and full surely
to be confirmed iu the future, are mani
fold. but some OF them Mt least, can be
grasped in rapid summary.
First we may mention climate. We
have here the Riviera of Italy without
the necessity of transplanting ourselves
to Italy or France. Neither Nice, Men
tone nor Cannes has the incompatible
climate, or the variety of climates, that
may be found in Los Angeles and its
immediate vicinity. This is not mat
ter OF speculation. The medical depart
ment of the army Of the United States
has announced it as the result of
careful inquiry. The important
feature of this circumstance is not
the gathering of large valetudinary
class in Los Angeles or Southern Cali
fornia, but the certainty that immense
numbers OF people, whose health ia
threatened rather than already i'm
paired by the harsh climates of the east
and of E1rope, can find here, under
conditions highly favorable to the de-
velopment OF their business energies, a
theater in which they can hope for long
life with prosperity in all lines of legiti-
mate business. and all under the flag oi
invaluable condition. There will be
here none OF the meretricious excite
ment of Monte Carlo, but career OF
usefulness and pecuniary and hygienic
profit.
1t is at least fair to summarize some
OF the supplemental inducements to eet-
tlement in Los Angeles. This city, hav-
ing already shown its marvellous ability
to grow, its future is assured by the fact
that it has really whole continent be-
hind it. From San Pedro and Santa
Monica is the shortest span across the
United States from tidewater to tide
water. 1t s scarcely forty per cent of
the distance from San Francisco to New
York, that separates these two ports
from Galveston and New Orleans, and
that distance is never complicated by
snow blockades nor by difficult grades.
The Numerous transcontnental railways
that center in Los Angeles, and that are
in course of construction, traverse a
region of indescribable mineral riches
that surely mark this city out as great
smelling and manufacturing center.
Every element OF growth and expan-
sion crowns the Angel City. In the
country tributary to it there is scarcely
thing grown on the footstool that can
not be raised here. When Mr.. Richard