The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-13
OS ANGELES LESSONS.

! Os ANGELES LESSONS.
After enjoying the hospitality of
senator Clark and the people Of Los
angeles, after seeing the system with
which the City of the Angels utiIizes its
natural resources, and after studying
those advantages carefully from the
visitors point OF viey, the excursion
lists Of the Commercial club return
owing their host debt of gratitude
for the opportunity to compare the two
terminal cities Of his railroad.
The obligation is the greater because
II convinced every Salt Lake man Of
the fact that his home city has all of
the natural wealth, the attractions of
climate and location. the opportunities
for money-g getting that have made Los
Angeles the wonder Of the whole couu-
Try It convinced them, also. that the
internal discOrd and lack of harmony
which have made salt Lake cOnspicu-
Gus. cannot stop her progress nor long
defer an impulse OF growth and solid
prosperity which VIII sstonish even
those who have been most sansuine as
10 the future Of the city.
One thing impressed itself time and
again on the excursionists- the Los An
geles people have their own domestic
difficulties. bitter and OF long stand
ing, but when they feel that they must
fight, they retire to the back yard and
have It out, and if a stranger happens
10 ring the front dOOr-beU, the whole
family appears with a smile and an ap-
pearance of harmony that would de-
ceIve the very elect into thinking they
had been having a love feast
Down there they sit Up o nights to
sing the praises of California and its
southern capital; they meet people at
The train 10 congratulate them on hay
ing finally reached an earthly paradise:
they hardly have time to eat, so busy
are they i'm their occupation Of boost
ing Los Angeles. To be sure. they have
10 buy their drinking water III gallon
jugs and would have a compton mt
at the thought of drawing a drink from
the hoUse-tap as Salt Lakers do. They
have a sewage system that answers
fairly well, but let a storm come and
the town is flooded on its lower levels
until it needs rubber boots to get
around the wholesale district. and the
cars TO the railroad stations have to
run like motor boats to arrive They
have fogs every once in awhile and they
have to trust to the kindness Of Provi-
dcnCe for d decent crop. say. once in
three or four years. But. for all that.
the tendeTfoot gets the impression that
would rather quit living at all than face
the prospect OF leaving their beloved
city
The two hundred and odd Salt Lake
people who visited there this week had
heard and seen something of this high
spirit Of civic pride: but they had not
seen it in organized form until they
We're received and entertained as a /
body by the chamber Of commerce, the
city council and the real estate cx-
change of that city. They saw then the
value Of organization, the immeasur- |
able advantage of cooperative effort in /
promotion, and every one OF them
comes back filed with the idea that
Salt Lakes great and only weakness !
has been in the lack of organization.
The Commercial club members saw
that they had started in the right di- /
rccyion when they formed the club: 1
and they saw, also. that the club as /
body has only begun the work for
which II was intended and which It is I
we'll fitted to undertake. Alter this yo- I.
won't have TO argue with any member }
who went to Los Angeles 10 convince I
him that there is a field for the club (
and a special line Of effort for every
member who has any pride in his city /
or practical desire TO see it grow and 1
thrive.
For this, and for the enjoyment OF a /
trap which had nothing but unauoyed !
pleasure. the whole city is indebted TO .
Senator Clark. the host Of the occasion.
10 the chamber cE commerce Of Los
Angeles. which arranged the urO-
gramme Of entertainment while there.
and to the innumerable individuals Of
Los Angeles who took it upon them
selves to see that the visit was great
success The visit is 10 be returned
and salt Lake is to have an opportuni-
y 10 show what it can co when the oc-
casion offers And right now is the
time to begin planning such an enter
tainment as shah make Los Angeles
people think there is at least one other
city as hospItable and enjoyable as
their o-rD