Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
NOTES BY THE BYSTANDER

"There's lady running to catch this
car"
"Whatd you say, mum?'
II say there's a lady running to
catch this car; but what's the use;
we're two blocks away from her now.
I'll report the whole bunch of you"
And she fumed and fretted all the
way downtown,
One Of the Curious facts connected
with the sociai life of Los Angeles is,
as a friend recently expressed it,
that pretty nearly everybody eoesn't
know anybody" This is accounted for
by the tremendous inpouring into the
city of about 10000 to 10000 new per-
manent residents every year.
A man who was engaged last week in
carrying around for signatures a petit
tion for an election on the subject of
human crematory in Pico Heights
tells this story:
II thought I knew many people in
Los Angeles, but found my knowledge
limited to a very few. / tramped for
several days over the city, going into
mills, offices, factories and workshops.
There was little or no opposition to
the work 1 was engaged in, but the law
required the sgners to be qualified
voters and about three-fourths OF the
men / appealed to notified me that
they hadn't been here long enough to
qualify as a voter Now, what do you
| think of that"
It is interesting, but not news, that
Los Angeles is literally city OF
strangers. When a man has been
resident for two or three years he con-
siders himself pioneer. This
"strangeness' permeates every form
of civic and industrial affairs 1t is
as true of the church congregations as
of the industries and it gives a splen-
did reason why competent, honest men
can come to Los Angeles and get new
and successful start. They are given
a chance for what they may do, not
what they have done. Past achieve
ments or failures elsewhere count for
| little here, where one is expected to
show what he can do and that he
| Ctu wv II Dtltl lildll lllS OIhCl lGl-
low.
That newspaper row between Col.
| Wyatt and Mr.. Behymer has been very
amusing and entertaining to me. as
have all their past newspaper rows.
| Those two old boys have lots of fun
between themselves. l know them to
be very peaceable and constant friends,
but the way they shift blame upon
each other is joke in every newspaper
Office.
If an order for a pass IS mistakenly
turned down Mr.. Behymer says:
"Col. Wyatt should not have done
that"
| If the appeal is referred to the colo
mel he promptly says:
"Behymer should have referred that
do"
And there you are.
But 1t is something new for them to
discharge each other. / presume that
the colonel decided he couldn't stand
! for Behymer and Behymer decided
he couldn't stand for the colonel, so
they just discharged each other and
then went back to work as though
nothing had happened.
That people will put up with any
thing in America is an aphorism
abroad Some of those who deny it
j should have been at the Symphonys
opening at the Mason last Friday
Then they would have changed their
views.
1t was intended that no one should
enter the theater proper during the
rendition of n number-which is quite
proper. Raw ushers were detailed to
guard the doors--a wholly unnecessary
proceeding among gentle folk it would
/ seem.
They didn't know music from the honk
! of an auto horn. AS soon as the or
chestra began to file on the stage to
/ tune up these Doors slammed the
doors and thereafter the lobby was a
scene of indignant social lights, swear
ing at orchestra, society directors and
/ hades generally. For fifteen minutes
just when the main pody of listeners
should have been allowed to take their
paid-for seats-these cubs kept them
standing, tuning and cussing. 1t was
a sight to make the gods grin, but it
certainly gave me cause for remark:
"Oh, yes; I was one of the Shut
outs But I'll never be again; next
I time I'll stay away"
J THE BYSTANDER.