Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

of adobe hack with few buildings Of commercial Importance
while adobe still cumbes Sonoratown stately
lined with business palaces retail the beautifully
lighted the world pamned residence drives its magnificent
gorgeous colong of flowers and foliage its many parks
superb the cities of the world
well commercial metropolis of the highest Importance
Covering oyour square miles, its boundaries afford ample
for the homes of the poor well Of the rich has
sums the may live his cottage his plot of
ground and be among The fine weather ovates the
necessity of building against either heat cold spring.
and the the shack comfortable the the
sion
Flowers grow Wild poppy poinsettia eschschoza
daisy the hills and vales the violet cala geanium,
heoope fuhsia used for hedges carnations lilies
blossom from year end end The whole city kaedo
scopc riot Of color scarlet and purple and and yellow and
white One have bushels of blossoms for the asking The
stately PALM the dropping pepper the slender eucalyptus the acacia
magnolia fern and pine all the door yard Streets
lined with them they flank the banana lemon olive
fig Their grateful shade omnresent in the residence dis
tcts and need be poor that have them
For home people and for visitors there hospitality person
fed Last $4,000 avisng looked
planted their feet the soil and stayed become
they FORTH did Joshua
DID, spy the promised land The vines and fig
here and the milk and honey their lips Enthusiastic
the native Angeenos the outspeed them The
$4,000 who last already outnumbeed this
They cannot be kept away.
Angeles today a city manifest more is it
dobe Spanards Mexcans Indians and few whites The
former may still be hehe earlier and settlers
be oberaed amagamated yet But they the
Chinese and Japanese but picturesque nges of the cosmopo
world metropolis The absorbed the
place. he does and his ideas characterize the city What
sleepy pueblo rushing booming
of American activity and where mud hut housed dirty
cholo is white mans palace.
Yes Angeles a city implies Busi-
ness public buildings compare any
other the and exceed them Her street rail-
way system be beaten Her nterurban lines for
the world Her reaches the far OF the earth AS
of for hundreds of thousands of visitors every
year she rival With her surrounding fit jewels
her of spendor she affords every variety of habitat from
snowcapped and all the varieties between
She the commercial world of Southern California A
Nevada and the entire southwest She has been tested and
the fire. found wanting any particular She
buded the rock of inevitable prosperity and her foundations
eternal the granite hills that stand guard her
This the Los Angeles of today Who shall pophesy
What widest sootsayer of twenyf years agone
dared in his hnred what
has already been reazed Who would have predicted from the
somnoent village Of 1885, with its paths and ranches and
the metropolis Of 1905? And what flight fancy dare
what another quarter of century shall bring forth?
Angeles will prepared for future
what may hold In every line of activity she building big;
building for the future which already hers All the elements which
will make for her she and her outlook knows
In lexicon there such word mtaton she
claims destiny bounded only superb confidence
Large things Our Lady Of the Angels doing today making
future outskirts stretching
is building enaging for
worldwide trade Her steamship lines she establishing
bring eah to her Her railroads she stretching
deserts and through the irrigated valleys that her envrons
may part and parcel of herself Her ntercommuncang
she increasing steadily may be the
closely incorporated with her Her water supply she has already
steps greatly enlarge that during her long rnes
the earth for drink that she shall
grant, that other sandy desert through its
soning influence be made have fortunate wastes
with the Her commercial emporums erecting
trade palaces supply the needs the incoming populace Her
stretching the of distant lands and
limit lies to her ambition
The Los Angeles of the quarter century has caused the
world marvel well might The Los Angeles of the future
the womb of time But superb failure
be buded backward glance is permissible after
fraugh with Los Angeles has superb confidence her
magnificent destiny and preparing for the realization of her largest