Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-14

including that of the chamber of COM
merce and the Mason opera house.
Great things are ahead for Broadway
for it has a most energetic and pushing
crowd of promoters behind it.
Newspapers in Old Days and Now
The Herald started out in it's thirty
two years of life in a one-story build
ing nearly opposite the Bullard block
on the site of which then stood the
court house. 1t had power press and
was well appointed for those days. The
Jones estate improved the property, and
the office, composing and press rooms
were moved upstairs. 1t then moved to
Second street, opposite the Hollenbeck
hotel, just one door from the police
office, a most convenient location for
the reporters. 1t was afterward moved
to the T1ellman building on Broadway,
just around the corner. 1t now has
elegant and commodious quarters in
the imposing Chamber of Commerce
building.
The Express begon its career in the
Temple block, in that portion which
now forms the suite of Judge A. w.
Hutton. The impression was worked
off on a hand press, which was wont
to rock the building not a little. L
was afterward moved to The Herald
quarters, across the street, and later
to the same building The Herald occu
pied on Second street. 1t remained
there after The Herald had moved to
Broadway until it took possession of
it's own elegant building on Fifth street.
The Times in its earlier days had
quarters in the Downey block and early
moved into it's own building, which has
recently been enlarged and embellished,
on the corner of Broadway and First
streets.
In the early seventies there were two
other daily papers in Los Angeles.
the News and the Star. The former
had very brief record, and L do not
remember when it "petered out" 1t
had performed that function before I
came here. The Star occupied quar-
ters in the adobe building which stood
on ground occupied by the Phillips
block, where the Peoples store has its
habitat. The southern portions of the
building constituted the city Jail, with
the old court house Immediately op-
posite. Therein / believe it was born,
and therein it gave up the ghost.
A Final Word
No one who fails to take a trip over
Los Angeles every few weeks has any
idea of the changes which are con-
stantly under way in the contigura-
tion of the city Building is going on
in every direction, and great archi-
tectural variety characterizes the res
idences. The south and southwestern
portions of the city perhaps lead in
the more pretentious style of dwell
ings. Places like those of F. II.
Rindse, in the southwestern part of
the city, and Mrs. Shatto, on the hill,
would be palaces anywhere.
But there are such spontaneity and
variety of vegetation, flower and TO-
liage i'm Los Angeles that a beautiful
and even aristocratic home can be es-
tablished here at a comparatively
small cost. And being established
they are at an unprecedented rate and
in every direction. Such exquisite re-
gions as Chester place and Wiltshire
boulevard rank first, but it must in
truth be said they head a lovely pro-
cession. One would think in view
of the many attractions held out by
the beaches and suburban resorts that
building operations in the city limits
would slacken somewhat But it is not
so. The many subdivisions laid out
with cemented sidewalks, well graded
streets and special building contracts
seem to hold out perennial attractions
and the voice of the contractor and
builder is heard in the land, go you
where you will.