Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-26
He Does the Holding and
Others Buy Where No
Restrictions Exist

In this booming town of Los Angeles
20 many things happen that 1t takes
the swiftest of the bunch to keep pace
with the procession. know you all
have not been sleeping, but l do Won
der II you have ever studied the IN
creasing army of straw men. used
10 write about Greta Wrinkle, when she
acted for w. I. Hollingsworth when he
bought all there was in sight on South
Broadway and Eighth street and some
on Hill. Then It came the turn or
Frank Brown and Mulford S. Wade
at the local straw bat and he knocked
a few sky screamers when Huntington
first began his raid on Los Angeles and
Maple avenue frontage, taking in
school houses, churches, shacks ana
what not. Now it is e. ]. Grant at the
straw bat and he is acting for IL. h.
Huntington again. Grant is placed in
the directory as a clerk for the South
ern Pacific railroad. So far so good.
Nav be he has a NV suit of cloths. L
don't know him, but he seems to have
money. and plenty of it. Just listen.
In a recent transfer e. j. Grant
bousht from w. p. Nordholt and A. e.
Nordholt portion of the Vineyard
tract and part of lot 10, block Z, OF
the Mareno vineyard tract. This prop
ertv is the northwest corner of sixth
and Maple, fronting forty feet on Ma
nIe 223 feet on Sixth and 100 feet on
the west end, This is an L shaped lot.
For this the illustrious namesake OF
the great American general, Grant
Maid ss5.o00. Now wouldn't that stop
any old alarm clock at a. M?
In tbe deed the price was placed at
$40. That wouldn't buy enough grouno
70 plant a clay pipe for the plumper
assistant. This latest purchase is for
Henry e. Huntington We all know
that and so say we all of us. And
stiu he has offered Edmund Roberts
s155OO for his piece next NORTH not
quite so large but about as valuable
But does Edmund make deed? Not
If the pebbles laugh on the unklssed
beach. Edmund knows whose leg he
milling They tell me he's a good
nuller. So look out for big figures. The
reason is plain-H. e. Huntington
tipped his hand too soon His agents
Numbered and H. E. skipped to New
York to pull the smoke along and keep
the public from thinking about IL. u.
But II. E. is a figure, and the boys are
lust simply milking the financial teat
as fast as he can float bonds in the
east
Why. this property is opposite the
schoolhouse lot for which II. E. bid
$4,000, but after a pathetic speech that
had tears in it's voice, by a paid attor-
ney. H. E. just stepped up to the cap
tain's desk and planked down $9O.OOO
Say amt that a rich, creamy teat?
And also, Henry E. enriched the
African population by paying the coll
ored folkses $25,OO0 for 9Ox50 feet on
the southwest corner of Sixth, next to
the schoolhouse lot. Now, do you think
Edmund Roberts is sleeping? 1 guess
not and if he's a young man he and
Grant should join forever and court the
same girl. Only it might be hard to
tell who's the richer-the one who
gets his own money, or the one who
stands sponsor for the other fellow,
who puts up the dough.
It's a shame to tell these state Sc
crets, but it's my business to keep the
dear public wisely and we'll informed,
because the official records of Los An
geles, that should be an honest ref1ec-
tion of honest transactions, are sub
terfuge when it comes to proper trans
actions and values. The records are a
vehicle for suppressing honest infor-
nation. They do give public notice of
title That's all. And this reminds me
that another neighborhood row is
brewing out near Palm place, West
noreland. Alvarado, Hoover and Elev-
enth streets. In the west Bonnie Brae
tract, on the northeast corner of Park
avenue and Eleventh street, a cute
turn has been enacted. A sort of real
estate vaudeville, don't you know
am told that j. II. Reynolds the car
riage man, found a vacant lot 50x126
feet on the northeast corner of Park
and Eleventh. and as no building re-
strictions were in sight, Reynolds just
grabbed the works for business pur-
poses, and that he intends to create a
new business center for the con-
venience of that rapidly growing sec
tion, and that the first good tenant car
have the business block he intends tc
erect.
Are the people out there hot? No
they are only Hot! That's what
they are. Some well disposed people
approached Brother Reynolds In thai
neighborly way that some people have
don't you know, when something Ii
doing, don't you know?
Says one Old Brother to Brer Rey,
nolds:
Say Reynolds. you now are on,
of us. Join us in building restric
ton. 1t will help us all. Then ui