The herald., 1895-08-22

city hall. The salary Of the place is S25
a month, and the hours are rather long.
| but the old man wants the Job and his
| filed with the council the following very
. original, and in great many respects,
very remarkable petition:
Your petitioner AYERS that he came to
California in the year 1919 and has lived
in it ever sin c; that in that year the
chief products of Los Angeles city and OF
the country around it. which is now
known as Los Angeles county, were mud
houses. ratas, dogs. cats. rats, tieas,
flies, lice, :cice, snakes, gophers, squir-
rels, rabbits, owls. hawks, buzzards. car
rion crows. coyotes. wildcats, California
lions, bear, deer sheep. goats, asses,
horses, mules, wild cattle, louse- ca ting
In iians and fea-hunting Californians.
In that year il man. travelling on foot.
attempted TO pass through a beru of cat
tie grazing on the plains his life was not
worth a nickel. because he was a strange
animal that they knew nothing about and
they were certain to gather around him
to Investigate him-unle5S he Outran the
fastest beast in the herd-and while they
Investigated him they gored and trampled
hi IN to death. But if he rode on horse
back among them tney recognized him
at once as their master, who might at any
time swish the deadly RATA above their
heads. After that recognition he might
drive them before him like sheep. Pre-
vious to that year traders came to the
coast once year in ships to barter mer-
chandise for hides and tallOw, which were
then the two chief products OF the country
for export. BY that annual exchange of
hides and tallow for merchandise the
people of Los Angeles city and what is now
the county of Los Angeles maintained
friendly intercourse with the outside
world, and the utsde world maintained
friendly and profitable intercourse with
them.
That in the years 1919 and 1850 the Call
ifornia pioneers aroused the world as it
had never been aroused before since the
beginning of history.
That today. in consequence of and di-
rectiy resulting from that loud awaken
ing of the world by the pioneers, the
chief products of Los Angeles city and
county have been changed beyond all re-
sembance to their former chief prod ucts.
That the characters of the city and county
have peen changed also, quite as much as
their chief products have been changed.
Their population has increased NOR than
a hundred fold and their wealth been
increased more than a thousand fold
since the first day of lSi9. The changes
in the city arc more apparent, but not
more real than in the county.
The streets have been graded. paved,
severed. They have been supplied with
steam railways. cable railways. electric
railways and electric lights. The princi-
pal streets are sprinkled with water daily
when necessary; at night they arc srrln-
kled and swept. Light, heat and power
are kept always on hand for whoever will
buy them. Immense business blocks,
massive and tireproof, rise high in the
air to defy the assaults OF the coming
centuries. Thousands of beautiful houses
in almost endless variety of contrasting
designs, generally supplied with either
lawns or gardens between them and the
streets, occupy many miles OF the city's
territory. Mahy of these houses are of
palatial character, both in size, adorn-
ment and cost. and are generally sur
rounded with evergreen shrIbbery and
lawns and ever blooming flowers. The
hotels alone of the present city accommo-
date more people than were living
in the city and county, in 1s49.
Schools, academies. colleges, Libraries.
studios, conservatories, art and historical
siums, lecture hall, and many other facil-
lties for instructing, amusing and inn
proving the people are accessible to all at
small cost or else are free.
Morning and evening the newspapers
spread the news of the world before the
peopIe.
The mountains, the sea and the city
have been brought together by the rail-
WAYS.
Current events indicate that in the near
future the Los Angeles ladies may. II
they wish, in winter, gather their fami-
lies and their friends around them in
their flower eardens-from which flowers
are never absent-and after all have been
supplied with flowers they may ascend
to the top of the mountains. above the