The herald., 1897-01-03
CHANCE FOR MANUFACTURES
Cheap Fuel viii Yet Direct the City's
Destiny
Spiendid Improvements Of City Streets and
Sewer System
Proof of Growth as Shown by the Popu-
lation Statistics-Great Additions to
the Parks-The Oil Field.
The Schools

which marked another period in the
prosperity OF Los Angeles. Precarious
conditions that have menaced the good
OF certain other localities and left an
imprint Of uncertainty and doubt upon
them have but demonstrated the fact
that Los Angeles is built upon a firm
foundation, that her wondrous growth
has been real and not ahead of actual
needs of the rapidly increasing popula-
tion. and that the evidences Of thrift to
he seen on all sides are not merely SUPER
ficial. With each succeeding year one
fact becomes more and more obvious.
until now no man has the temerity to
doubt tit Is the destiny of Los Angeles
to become a me etropolis Great she is
now, but greater she is bound to become.
until she ranks among the foremost
cities OF the nation.
To some whose sentimentality dulls
their prescience it sounds like rank her
esy to predict time when the CONNER
cial. even the manufacturing. import
ance of the city shall pale its early glory
as a sanitarium chiefly noted for its eli
mate, cloudless skies and perennial
flowers; but 1t does not require prophet
future. And with its added wealth Of
commerce and mauufac tories the city
will still retain it's fair fame for its
flowers, will retain its cloudless skies,
its balmy atmosphere.
With such advantages as nature gave
Aa ea @ 0eaon is
proximity to All ocean shore that offers
sitee for deep water harbors to float the
merchant marine of the farther world,
and with Its distance from a rival wor-
thy of the r1ine--Los Angeles must and
shall become the metropolis of the
southwest
INCREASE OF POPULATION.
The story of the wonderful and steady
growth of Los Angeles Is told in annual
chapters With each succeeding year
the retrospect is pleasing. In the in
crease of population alone the city is a
marvel. While 1t may be true that
numerous population does not necessari-
ly make a large city, If the crowded,
Overgrown villages of other countries
may be cited as illustrations, the char
acter, as we'll as the numbers, of the peo-
pie is predominating influence in the
upbuilding of a municipality. Granting
that God made the country and man
made the town." the divine and human
landiwork can both be seen to perfec-
tion from any outdoor point of vantage
In this city
Only as far back as 1850 Los Angeles
was only rambling adobe, half Mexi-
can town OF 11,1S3 souls. and some of
them indifferent kinds of souls, too. Ten
years later the official census gave the
city 50,595 people. Though no census
since 1890 has been made by the United
States government 1t is conclusively
shown that the population of Los An
geles city-no longer the pueblo-is over
100000 This Is no mere guess work. but
is substantiated in way that leaves no
chance to doubt. The publisher of the
city directory made in January of last
year a house-t house census, and as a
result announced authoritatively that
the population at that time was 1882.
The city directory contains 43,2S1 indi-
vidual names, and applying the usual
ratio of ~ the total number of inhabit-
ants Is shown to be the same. The pub
fishers have so far progressed in their
work that they are able to predict an
increase Of 1000 names In the volume for
1897. The school census taken officially
In 1896 showed 20,679 children of school
age between and II years of age. The
best authorities agree that the school
census proves the city to have total of
over 100000 Inhabitants.
The character of this increased popula-
ton is cen more acceptable than its
number. All or nearly all the new citi-
zens who were not born here between
thc SCdiS VI LdkIHE the census came
hither from the east. Some in search
of health, some simply to pass their SUBJ
sequent years In salubrious climate
that makes life worth the living, others
to better their financial condition BY
far the majority were people that would
do credit to any city. This is why So
ciety IN Los Angeles Is so superior to
that OF other far western cities. In no
other place OF its size in the east or
west can be found more intelligent or
more cultured society.
A CITY OF HOMES
The stranger visiting in the city 1.
amazed first by the pretentious business
blocks that loom skyward in the busy
part of the city, and then by the number
of dwelling houses In the residence sec
.tions His wonder at the number is
mixed with admiration for the taste and
variety displayed, and the always pres
ent token of aesthetic art that calls for
appropriate ornamentation and land
scape gardening. He finds the aesthet-
ic, taste prevailing in the circumscribed
limits of cottage lot as it does in the
demesne of acres surrounding the man.
sion of the millionaire. The taste. the
ambition ID present: only the matter of
wealth makes the difference between the
home Of the cottager and the residence
of the rich man. So easily obtainabIe
are the finest of flowers and so readily do
they propagate In the open air the wear
around. that only the exercise of taste
is needed to convert every door yard
into q garden and every garden into q
park.
what proportion Of the total popula-