Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
East Side Industrial Cen
ter Is on Its East
ern Wing

Say, fellows, hasn't this been a great
week for thinking? I'll bet there's
been more varnish rubbed off the bot
tom Of chairs since last Monday, when
the rain did begin to tumble in buckets
full, than would paint a floor space
twice the size of the Lankershim din
ing room. And as for cigars! Well,
every fellow who could afford 1t did
smoke, because no one can think so
we'll as the fellow who is lucky enough
to have day dreams and send the
smoke a-curling high.
You remember now that last Octo-
ber l told you about Fifth street, and
then Sixth street, and finally about
what Henry e. Huntington was doing
ON Los Angeles and Maple, from Sixth
to Eighth? 1 think you will agree with
me now that 1 tipped off the situation,
and those who got in at the right time
made money. Now 1 can tell you few
things about Ninth street. Have you
noticed the sales that have been closed
in that street during the week? Well,
how many more pointers do you want?
Thursday, when old J. Pluvius pulled
the string and the rain just poured
out, or he took his siesta and forgot
TO plug out at the right time, 1 talked
with C. C. Crippen and Paul A. Grip
pen, who are both ends of the invest
rnent company of the same name They
told me about Ninth street and they
certainly show that they know Los An
geles like a book, and that they have
given values, progress and causes for
things that are close study.
By consulting your city map, you
will note that Ninth street divides the
city into almost equal parts, running
from the eastern to the western boun-
Diary, through the heart of the high
class, thickly settled, residence section;
the business district and the produc
ing and industrial portion of the city,
and you will find it the longest cross
town street, First and Seventh streets
being the only two streets which rivt l
1t in this respect, and, unlike either of
these two streets, has no steep hills or
scarcely a jog to cause the large travel
to seek another route. And, again,
Ninth street is traversed by street car
lines almost it's entire length from
east to west, which is an undeniable
advantage.
I,;-
it's geographical location, will and does
carry the bulk of the east and west
travel through the city's center. mo
transfers" is considered by some to be
the only reason why this thoroughfare
has not been improved to a greater
extent with business buildings, and
prices advanced to the point reached
by other streets in the same locality.
And this fact undoubtedly has been
the one reason why the prices of East
Ninth street property are proportion
ately lower than those of other cross
streets. But this feature seems over
come, as evidenced by the great num-
Der of improvements now being made
and planned for the immediate future,
and the numerous sales reported every
few days.
In the first place, residents of this
section, as a rule, do not find it neces-
sary to make daily or even weekly
trips to the western and southern por-
tions of the city, from the fact that
their employment is in the immediate
neighborhood of their homes, or at
farthest, the uptown business section,
to which the East Ninth and Car
vanza car takes them direct, and now
with the new Twelfth street line (Which
is only one block south of and parallel
with Ninth for a great part of its
lengthy it is possible for any person
living or having his business on East
Ninth street to reach one of the cars
of the Los Angeles Railway company.
either on Twelfth street, Mateo street,
Central avenue, Maple avenue, San Pc
dro street or Main street, by walking
not farther than two blocks.
Did you ever stop to consider that
West Ninth street has more territory
to draw from than any cross street
south of First street, as there is no
street running west from Santa Fe
avenue to Main street, north of Thirty
eighth street until you reach Eas:
Ninth street? Not only that it is the
first main artery reaching the thirty
thousand people living in the Sixth
ward, the highest class of workingmen
and skilled artisans. And this ward
leads all in building permits, as the
building permits for the past year show
a greater amount of building than any
other ward in this fast growing city.
But when C. C. Crippen got down TO
telling about the material things of
Los Angeles, he also declared that the
old cry of the knockers, Los Angeles
has nothing to support 1t but the tour
ists," is no longer true. Crippen de
clares we have the best and cheapest
fuel In the country and that Los An
geles is today a manufacturing city of