Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-01
HISTORY MADE
IN ONE YEAR
WHAT THE TREES OF TRADE
GAVE LOS ANGELES
Summary Of All Of the Good Things
That Came to a Good People
in Great
City

1905. from behind your curtain you
can give thanks that Franklin, Hat
field and ]. Pluvius worked in triple
harness. as the wetness to the amount
OF 1-g inches has come TO gladden.
the hearts of all mankind. / give all
honor to Franklin. and a small slice
to Hatfield for his effort at least, but
thank old man Pluvius the most, as
he did the business. There's nothing
Ike having friend at court. and Los
Angeles certainly had a friend at tho
Supreme Court beyond the rim OF
clouds above Old Badly
If any old wretch lives in Los An
geles who does fail to give thanks to-
day for all the substantial and mate
rial blessings with which he is en-
vironed, / just hope somebody viii
pour a pint of ground mustard into his
boots. so he may nave a hot old dance
and have taste of what is in store
for so base an migrate. OF course we
can't all be happy, but for goouh-Ts
sake be happy one day in the year
and let that day be this one Don't
finger with the Italian frappe. fcr it Is
searching and finds you out and don't
let it be frozen eggnog either, for yon
may cackle too loud. Toot your horn
and give thanks that it's no worse.
That'n be plenty If you turn over
new leaves keep them clean, and IL
you make any resolutions cut out the
amendments and let the resolutions
pass by a unanimous vote.
But say, that's all right as far as
you are concerned in a general way
hut did you ever stop to think what
1904 has done for Los Angeles? All or
ur know that prosperity has showed
its genial nose down the local battle
line, and that no great wreck engulfed
the leaders in trade and that the good
Lord spared scores of the best men IN
the world who ever hustled to make
any city famous, great and powerful
And. for our sweethearts, mothers ana |
wives we bless them for rising to bless
the sons of men OF whom they are
proud.
Getting back to earth again 1 am
enabled to tell you that last year
1890 permits for separate construction
itens We're issued and that these
called for an expenditure of $13 4O9O62.
Think of that will you, that in this
imperial city while all We're hustline,
over one million dollars a month was
being put into brick stone and frame
buildings And, the best of it is that
almost 5000 homes were erected in this
hustling city of your adoption. Now
why don't you toot your horn? That's
a city of its own, and good sized one
too. and bigger than some of you de-
serted to come west.
But of all the bis things that Los
Angeles did produce during 1904 are
the bank cearings These are fairly
busters and run into the twelve figures.
Any city that can boast of $345 34S,-
S5635 in clearings in a measly twelve
months is a city spelled in caps and
don't forget that Just add one more
note in the key of G. on your horn as
you toot.
Real estate has been lively l will
admit and so will you, all the year, but
III wager cookie shell to a watch
that YOU did not dream that even at
the ridiculous nominal figures that go
on record that this total for the year
would reach $2S651, 1875 Well, thatt
the total, and its official AS $40 is the
usual figure used suppose you take an
average of $50, and on my basis I figure
that the total transactions in real es-
tate during the year has reached $SS,
462,456 How does that strike you for
the record of a town located in the
southwestern part of these United
States and almost at the jumping off
place as your maps will show at that
That sounds good I know, but the
best index to local expansion and the
growth in population is the returns in
post office receipts. My friend Matt
Flint has compiled a table that shows
that the receipts for the year closing
yesterday for the Los Angeles post
office reach S599,6S12S, an increase of
S1O2, 1j0.22 That is proud record 10
make and as Flint says shows more
N'''' '"N H'o''ll"A 5l""th IMAM uoes
any other factor. And the days are
Just dawning and with this day of the
birth OF a new year is there not much
to toot horn for. So toot loud and
long and as the run goes down give an
extra blast,
So long for the old year, as ! enter
again new era next Sunday with you.
May all of you good fellows who have
been good to me live long and prosper,
and here's to all the good fellows who
nave been good to you. IL. J. r.
Small Deals Bunehed
Frank Baiersky & Co. report prop
erty sales as follows;