Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-05
The Three Industries
That Make Los
Angeles Famous
Journal Editor Gets interested
in Equal Rights as Shown
by SpOOny Young
Birds
Editorial correspondeneel

March 2: Los Angeles Is full o.
northern tourists In winter and sum
mer tourists come mostly from the
south, as its location at the sea Level
guarantees very even climate, with
a great deal of sunshine the year
around. Thousands Of houses rent
all furnished six months at time to
alternate families of well-to-do peo.
pole who come and 20 with the flight
OF the season. So there is a constant
ly changing population, and few peo.
pie are permanent residents or even
for a year at a stretch But this
makes the city very attractive and
prosperous, as the population is large
ly OF a money-spending class, who
think nothing OF paying thousand
dollars a month at a hotel or five Of
ten thousand a year for their family
expenses.
Los Angeles is cooler at night and
has a lower temperature with frost
occasionally in winter than the sur.
rounding suburbs, many Of which
never knew Of frost. and have a finer
mountain air while the large city has
essentially marine climate The
greatest industry Is climate and haul.
ing people from the city out 10 see
the suburbs and vice versa. From
a. m. until nine at night the cars
are crowded with sight seers, bur
we never found a car crowded with
laborers, although there are signs
OF them about In working hours. that
Is the hours for going to and from
work. OF course the tourist buslpess
Is the great industry In fact Won
are hardly respectable unless you are
a tourist and have come at least a
thousand miles As we had come
about hfteen hundred we passed mus.
ter All the arrangements are planned
for the tourist, whether II be the
million dollar hotels with their own
special trains for New England or
the fruit peddler, they are an load.
ed for the tourist.
Tuesday We took one OF the innum.
cradle day excursions that are nlan.
ned for the travelling public. by land
and sea and several even toward the
upper regions. Our trip took Ms nm
the famous Los Angeles river. AS the
guide explained, There Is LITTLE water
In Il now and none at an IN the sum.
mer' But Los Angeles Ike IL will
some day be enclosed in solid
masonry and filled with water and
become grand canal The guides
that attend these excursions are inst
As Keen TO show you the latest con.
crete smoke stack as an old monastery
or seventh wonder OF nature In
short everything about Los Angeles
Is wonderful al so much per wonder
And then you wonder that ii is real.
" as wonderful as It is and wonder
''ul more that they did not charge
You double while they were about n
As you would have paid Il lust as
quickly, and wonder at their modera
lion.
ON this trip We saw the new free
Methodist college on a beautiful Site
~ the side OF the mountain. the new /
sycamore park that the city Is build. |
ns-and the city seems about one
hird parks Our next stop Is at one
y the Cawson ostrich farms where
.oa arc shown birds In an stages Of
nom the fresh laid Gag
. 'ae finished product at so much per
ee'he1 The great birds, some Of
hem ten feet high, seem TO thrive on
'sAnses and chopped alfalfa hAy, swal
p~ins the former whole and some.