The San Francisco call., 1904-02-22
SOUTHERN TRIP
IS OF BENEFIT
Visitors to Los Angeles See
Good Result of Concerted
Effort for It's Improvement
SECRETARY is SATISFIED
Edwin Stearns Says That the
Board of Trade Excursion
Has Accomplished Much Good
Oakland omce San Francisco Can

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Ills Broadway, Feb. 21
| The recent excursion to Los Angeles.
! given by the Oakland Board of Trade,
has done much to stimulate those who
visited the southern city to an effort
| to secure needed Improvements for
| Oakland. They have seen that the peo-
| pie of Los Angeles have been able to is
sue bonds for the Improvement Of the
city and that the improvements have
been rapidly accomplished The ex-
! cursion has also awakened new inter
est in the Oakland Board of Trade and
many of the business men that took
advantage of the excursion to visit Los
Angeles have, since their return, made
| application for membership in the or
ganizatiOn. Edwin Stearns, secretary
of the board. is well satisfied with the
results of the excursion. He said:
1t would be hard at present to estimate the
benefits Of this trip to Los Angeles Every
one that went on the excursion has returned
full Of enthusiasm regarding the future of this
city Our natural advantages are so far ahead
OF those of Los Angeles that one fail
10 appreciate the good that may be accom-
plished by a concerted effort on the part OF the
citizens of Oakland One Of the direct results
OF the excursion is renewal of interest in the
Oakland Board OF Trade. At the meeting Of
the directors last Friday forty-One new names
were added TO our membership roll and sev-
eral applications are now on file.
Even the ladies that went on the excursion
are eager to aid in the improvement Of this
city, and number OF them are already con-
sidering the organization of Ladies' Auxiliary
improvement Association.
Emil Lehnhardt said:
The lesson OF getting together has been thor
oughly taught. and the citizens Of Oakland
All frs fhnfr in
ing the bonds for city improvements. One
thing that struck very forcibly while in
cisco Call the only paper TO be had I'm
the south that contained any news OF this
city.
Walter E. Logan said:
We ought to build special crematory for
the benefit OF the mossbacks Of this city. and
then Oakland would stand chance of going
ahead.
James ]. O'Toole of the Elmhurst
Realty Company is enthusiastic over
the prospects of that suburb of Oak
land. He said:
In common phraseolOgy. real estate business
is lively in Elmhurst. In reviewing existing
conditions, ii can be said that the demand for
property. both improved and unimproved, dur
ing the last twelve months has given stimu-
lus to the real estate business that looks well
Tor the current year. During the summer
months or the year 1903 there was not a va
cant house in Eimhurst and the statement
that not less than one hundred people seeking
rental property could not be accom- unodated
during that year is a very conservative esti-
mate.
While the climatic conditions of Elmhurst
are such that attract all classes of people
and it is fact that desirable modern resi-
dences with spacious grounds have netted their
owners from $40 $500 per year. there are
many pretty and comfortable cottage homes
TO be had from SO 10 SO per month A vital
point worth cOnSideratiOn-Vital the inter
ests of this sections the proposed railroad
development approaching Elmhurst. a leading
FACTOR that is quickening real estate values
and increasing the population steadily.
IL Is safe TO that there is a this time
being concentrated the attention and effort OF
railroad capital in the direction Of Elmhurst
from two distinct sources. For this there is no
rather cause for wonder that this condition
mas not obtained sooner; it will require but a
thought and a slight understanding Of condi-
tions TO convince any one that in the present
Elmhurst is destined to become one Of the
most thickly populated districts surrounding
the bay. These statements being true. IL IL
evident that as competition and rivalry in
transportation become sharpened and intensf-
fed Elmhurst viii attract attention and de-
velopment.
At present there exists an activity in the
building line and sanitary Improvement in
Elmhurst more marked than has ever before
been known in its history: the subdivision
OF number of large tracts of land. the build
ing Of many new houses. an adequate addition
to our public school to be voted for BY the
people land which Will undoubtedly carrv)
the contemplation of the erection OF another
lodge and assembly hall and several new stores
and the construction. now under way of a
modern sewerage system (by private capitaD
sufficiently large to drain nearly the entire
district The inquiries through the mail in
numerous quantities daily denote that develop
ment has begun, and convinced that the
future prospects for the growth OF Elmhurst
are good