Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Los Angeles the Paradise OF the W0fLd

odayis without history Her predeces
the old adobe Sonoratown still lives but she is hardly
prototype Angeles of This Los Angeles has
sprung did Palas fuarmed the head of Zeus,
from the past and rapidly thoroughly substantially
grown almost decade has become metropolis
Yet away on early pages of Caifornas history
California good God
here and planted seed They had dreams of future growing
mrages of miracles becouded their sight, there and
need mission and they built they felt the need
From that humble mission has sprung the city of Los Angeles of
odayye not thereom either else would those
likewise have grown and have exeed it. There here
inherent in the land empaned in the SOIL inbred in the country
something ee-an unknown something undreamed by thm
which held the coming metropolis This mission had
future all unwt in the annals time the others cumbed into
picturesque asshey served their usefulness Why?
How the padres select this for their City of the
Angels? What induced them settle here where winter and
wed and make eternal spring? How did they know that
here the all earth regards climate atmos
phe scenery and all else that make habtaon ideal?
They bded than they knew these padres of the past
There really have been strong element of divine guidance
their work. All UP and down the great southwest they
scattering their mission stations here and there larger
smaller than this of Our Lady of the Angels AS far off
the evidences of their great work. and throughout the
the remains of the ouposs of their establishment San
Diego, San Gabriel Capsano Monterey Santa Barbara San
might be named where they planted
their feet erected their homes and prepared the way for the vza
fooa civilization of which they had not the fainte
visions.
Many worthy Angeles from
the fate of all the Providence itself had hand because
situated the beginning that greatness inevitable Climate
environment general ocatona these helped Water sky
here Commercial possibilities cenered here from the first
In no respect lacking any possessed yet had
what combined give them being and elements which Others
contained And seeks its level do population and
prosperity find their along the lines OF least resistance and plant
themselves where nature obviously intended they should be-
Perhaps ideay of situation and climate did Los Angeles
first prominence place lovely footstoo
just spot In the beautiful valley wherein the hands of
building worlds metropolis elements nowhere
found here Situated far enough from the avoid
fog winds which make northern dsa
geeab she enough the cooling beezes from
the its mighty waters Thirty minutes and one at
edge The gseng bosom of the magnificent Pacific
from her heights At night the cooling winds sweep inland
the evergreen foliage and the everbosomng flowers
while high the sky the light fog obscues the and stars
revivifs the munhcent growth of nature
hanging the city during the early forenoon modeang the sunlight
and mitigating its heat
through fog and the bright
flower palm pepper and magnolia
CLEANS beneath the gorgeous light that the of
But the high fog which visible only cloud and is not
felt has left the air and and ean and the sunlight
golden and brilliant shone from the Throne ITSELF
directly
And the side the long of hills, which shut
north and hills vedurecad through
year. their highest tops The San Gabriel the San
Bnardno Monica range Others like mighty
buwark guard the city from the chill winds in winter and the
blasts of the desert the From the heights of Od
Bad always hoay with the eternal and visible to the
naked eye only glance the tropical palm and palmetto
the pineapple magnolia olive fig and lemon Mount Lowe
lifts its mighty only few miles from the city line
bath the calm Pacific and SNOWFALL its summit in the
day great ranges the desert beez without eliminating
dyns moisture that might expect from
modified by the breeze off the sandy wastes
equab 6ne exharang atmosphere which the ideal Of
mankind is assured
So with cloudess months also With
glowing brighter than elsewhere conceive
atmosphere absolutely of muggness and oppression The
the owing the changes atmospheric conditions
moving The fog that the gives night the grateful
cooling fog which puts the popuce into and under blankets
Augustus by the desert breeze oduated by
crossing the daytime and the winds that might
presage tordy cooled by with the
high The warmth that does extremely
dry the cooess that succeeds free