The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-12

of my subject enclose the circular above
referred to and pass to the third element
of growth SO important in building city
or making great county.
In the first place, the people of this
city beiieOe in Los Angeles, and in the
second place, that faith without works is
dead, and so supplementing their faith
by their works, from city Of 1000
population in 1880, they built city of
more than $4,000 in 1890, An official
census in 1897 make the population
103, ,786 and what they call conservative
estimates puts the population at 10000
now. And the prediction referred to in
the beginning of my letter may not be
far wrong after all.
There is mountain lying just north
of the city. Its sides we're covered with
sage brush and rocks and alkali, ,furrowed
here and there by unsightly gorges. A
panic came on and millions Of men
throughout the country were out of
work. Rich men and business men and
women, 6eiieVing in Los AngeleS, sub
subscribed their money freely and put
every man at work, who wanted to work,
at one dollar day on the rugged noun
tain sides. They planted flowers and
vines, made beautiful lawns, planted
groves of pine and palm and pepper and
eucalyptus trees in the valleys and on
the hill sides, and made drives through
the canons and to wind for miles and
miles along the mountain sides until
their circuitous windings reached the
very topmost peak, and they called it
Mount Mckinley, and from this noun
tain summit we sat In our carriage and
looking through the clear atmosphere
could plainly see the white caps of old
ocean breaking on the shore, more than
twenty miles away. Believing in Los
Angeles they took twelve hundred acres
of this desert mountain and made it
"bloom and blossom like the rose" and a
hundred other varieties of flowers be-
sides. They found mud hole on West
9th street, washed it out, filled it with
fresh water and called it lake. They
planted palm trees and eucalyptus trees
and other trees around it, laid out drives
and walks and flower beds and called it
West Lake Park. 1t is beautiful place
and thousands Of people listen to the
music and rest in the shade on Sunday
afternoons every week in the year. A
citizen, who believed in Los Angeles, not
long ago donated another three thousand
acre tract of land for park purpose and
we have parks to the east and west and
north and south, and besides the resi-
dence parts of the city are veritable
parks themselves.
The second question that greets the
ear of the "tenderfoot" who reaches
these shores is: "Have you been to the
Chamber of Commerce." You must go
there. Don't miss that
Those of you who were at the Worlds
Fair at Chicago and can remember the
California exhibit can get fair idea ol
why the Jealous citizen wants you tovisit
the Chamber of Commerce. It is the
California exhibit of the Worlds Fair
with whatever of good or great
that has been produced since. In q
room about a hundred and twenty by
one hundred and fifty feet, in the bust.
ness center of the city, this great exhibit
is to be seen every day in the year
There stands the jumbo elephant with
hide composed of English walnuts, al
monds and lemons, apparently surveying
the pyramids of corn and wine, the jars
of lemons and oranges of monstrous
size-cases of dried apricots, and peaches
and plums and fgs-the handiwork o.
women-the implements of camp and
farm used centuries ago-a Pueblo Mex,
lean ox-cart made 200 years ago-meal.
ing stones for making -four by grinding
and by the "roller process in vogue two
thousand years ago-Indian darts and
implements of every description-ores
of copper and lead and gold and silver
dug from Los Angeles mountains, and
thousands of things "too numerous tc
mention" And the elephant seems to say
81 am Los Angeles and these are my off:
springs" and the denizens of summer.
land punches you in the ribs and says
how do you like that?
| THE LESSON.
This letter is already too long but the
lesson must not be omitted.
To the physically sound man the soil
and farm production and markets OF
Stark county, when compared with Los
Angeles county, gently whispers in the
language of the old song, "Stay at home,
Tommy, don't CO." When we come to
think about the wealth producing ele-
ments of Stark county we feel like saying,
stand by her boys. But if you are sick
or lazy or have plenty of money you