The herald., 1894-06-10
BUILDING TOWARD THE SEA,
Los Angeles is Growing To-
ward Santa Monica.
What the Building Inspectors Re-
cords Show.
The Average Of -Four and a Half Houses
q Day Steadily Maintained-Ths
Larger Proportion In South
western Part OF City.

The future Of the city OF Los Angeles
as the great metropolis OF Southern
California is prefgured by the signs OF
present development.
An examination of the records in the
Office of the building inspector indicates
that no city in the United States shows
the same remarkable ratio of develop
ment as Los Angeles in house building.
For the past 100 days, that 10 to say,
from January 1st to ] une 9th. there have
been erected TIC new buildings in this
city, or an average OF A houses per day,
including Sundays. These facts, taken
in connection with the depressed times
prevalent all over the country, certainly
offer cheering vista to the citizens of
this community. They indicate in the
most eloquent terms to the financial
world that the city Of Los Angeles is
rapidly expanding in response to the ex-
actions of steadily increasing popula-
ton, and signify that the day is not far
distant when there will be solid city
from the present southwestern bound
aries to the sea.
The actual line of development oil
Los Angeles is toward the seashore, and
it is also especially noteworthy that the
direction followed by the larger number
of houssbuilders is in the direction OF
San Monica. This is demonstrated
with mathematical exactness by the
records OF the building inspectors Office.
An analysis of the permits for new
buildings issued since January l, 1894,
of which there were ZIG in all to date.
shows that 446 of the new structures
were erected in the extreme south west
ern portion of the city; in other words,
on the direct line of development to-
ward Santa Monioa-ss against 270 in
all other portions within the limits OF
the &c. mile boundary OF the city of Los
Angeles. In considering these figures 1t
should also be taken into account that
the large and populous district of Uni
versity which lies outside of the limits
of Los Angeles on the line to Santa
Monica, is at present experiencing a
greater ratio of development than the
remarkable four and one half houses per
day OF Los Angeles. As a matter of fact
the distance between the boundaries of
Santa Monica and the suburban dis.
tricts is rapidly dwindling, and eight
miles is high estimate as the develop
ment now stands, and it goes without
saying that this breach is steadily being
narrowed. The development at the
Santa Monica end of the line should not
be overlooked. The second Los Angeles
by the sea is rapidly extending toward
the metropolis. and not many years will
elapse before the two points are happily
merged in one great center of popula-
ton, reaching out for the inexhaustible
- Co. HuI,
The process of house building is laid
on broader lines in Southern California
than in the congestsd cities of the east.
The great army of people which is stead
lily pouring into Los Angeles ia made up
of men of easy circumstances; men who
have made their competencies in the
eaet and who come to Los Angeles to live
a life not handicapped by the extremes
OF climate that are inevitable east OF the
great divide. These men are building
beautiful villas, whose classic outlines
and architectural grsces are making Los
Angeles city OF striklngly beautiful
homes. The rolling lands to the south
west of the CITY, towards Santa Monica,
are most admira bly, adapted for sites for
such residences where the retired mer-
chant, or the man who has achieved
UObA hnQ CUlA CoA Iobb Ou
his laurels in charming villa, sur
sounded by an acre of ground, covered
with the most luxuriant floral develop
ments of this singulsrly benign climate
Such elegant homes are RAPIDLY being
erected, both in southwestern Los Ange-
les and Santa Monica, and within less
than 10 years, with the constantly in
creasing ratio of development, the two
cities must perforce come within the
confines of one municipality. Any ssgs-
cious business man who will carefully
look over the situation will be forced to
this con clusion. The logical line of de
velopment of Los Angeles is toward the
sea at Santa Monica, and this position is
fortified by the mathematical indicas OF
the records of the ofiice OF the building
inspector.
To all Angelefios it will be matter o.
qualification to know that today Los
Angeles proportionately has an average
double that OF any city in the union. as
an examination OF the building records
of other cities indicates. 1t is equally
important to know that the greater pre-
ponderance of this development is mani
testify toward Santa Monica by the Sea.
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