Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
SUGGESTS FAIR
FOR Los ANGELES
ST. L0UISAN SAYS IT WILL
JPBUILD CITY
cites Experiences Of Mississippi Valley
MetropolIs--Likes the Native
Sons Spirit That Pre-
walls Here

Charles p. wonderly Of the st. Louis
World, and one of the we'll known real
estate men Of st. Louis, guest at the
Holenbeck hotel, declares that Los An
geles is a game in which one cannot
lose.
There Is no city In the United States
where the natural conditions are so har-
moniously united for the making of a
great city," said Mr.. Wonderly yester-
day. Los Angeles is destined to become
one Of the greatest cities in the world
i'm the course of from fifteen to twenty
years with a population very close to
the million mark.
LOS Angeles is not only the place for
the man of means and the health seek
err but Is decidedly the place for the
young man with progressive spirit and
a desire to make the most OF his oppor-
tunities. Every young man who has a
little money to invest should place It in
Los Angeles property.
Buy Property, His Advice
Buy the cheapest property you can
get hold of. Buy 1t anywhere. 1t is
only a question Of q few years at the
most that the property will have
doubled, in value. Buy holes. Other
property owners will purchase them
from you at many times the price in q
few years.
ut is a foregone conclusion that Los
Angeles is strictly, in the words OF the
gambler, a game in which you cannot
lose.'
Comparing Los Angeles with st.
Louis, my own city, there are better
crowds in the principal streets in Los
Angeles than there are In the principal
| streets Of st. Louis. The business en-
terprise and the life and activity Of Los
Angeles are so far in advance Of any
other city that have ever visited that
there is no chance for comparison.
"The business streets Of Los Angeles
are in better condition In appearance
than business streets In any of the
larger eastern cities. The window dis
plays Indicate an originality that one
cannot find in any other city. The
quality of goods found for sale here is
fully equal to and better than that Of
many other municipalities.
Likes Boosting Spirit
''What this spirit in Los Angeles Is
I cannot say. l do not understand it.
Every Angeleno have met while here
has commenced boosting. Boosting,
boosting, have never run UP against
such boosters combination in any
city. If this boosting is what is termed
the Native Son spirit say, give us
some more OF this Native Son spirit in
some other cities in the east
Thirty-five years ago Mr.. Wonderly
made a remarkable overland trip. Dur
ing that trip the party of which Mr..
Wonderly was a member had several
encounters with Sioux Indians. In one
encounter the Indian bucks stole three
women from Mr.. Wonderly's party and
one Of these was never heard Of after
that. 1t is believed that the Indian
| squaws killed her.
The party left Atchison, Kas. in
May, 1871, and drove through Kansas
to Ft. Laramie, Wyo., thence to Salt
Lake City, Sacramento, Oakland, Los
Angeles, Denver, Julesburg, Kansas
City and back to st. Louis, where they
arrived late in December, 1871. Mr.
| Wonderly was then boy of fourteen,
but remembers the Incidents and the
hardships with historical accuracy.
| One Of the most striking incidents Mr..
Wonderly relates follows:
Recalls California Explosion
my father and I were in Sacramento
and wanted to make a hurried trip
to San Francisco and back before we
continued our journey overland. There
were two boats running from Sacra-
mento to San Francisco named Wash
itaw and Chrysopolis. They were oper-
ated by two different parties.
$50 keen was the competition that
$40 to % cents. But the management
of the Washitaw threw in the supper
on the boat and everybody that was
going to San Francisco flocked to the
Washitaw.
while en- route the machinery of
the Washitaw suddenly refused to
work and the next instant the boat
was blown to pieces. Many passengers
were badly burned and scalded, but my
father and myself escaped uninjured
with the exception Of ducking in the
river.
Besides being burned and scalded
some of the passengers were rendered
cripples. 1t was pitiful, but still funny.
A few hours later the Chrysopolis came
floating majestically down the stream
and took the injured passengers on
board. What the other passengers paid
the Chrysopolis for transportation l
don't remember, but father and added
| about 500 to the Golfers of the Chrysop-
oils"
Suggests Worlds Fair
! With the remark that the worlds
fair in st. Louis left an increase of
100, 900 population there as cue Mr..
Wonderly was asked what he believed
to be the best upbuilding medium Los
Angeles could institute. He replied:
"By all means have a worlds fair
! here There are hundreds of thousands
of people that are waiting for an OPP
portunity to come to Los Angeles when
some such an excuse will take them
there Statistics show that every
demonstration of growth and upbuild-
ing that is held here make an increase
in the population for Los Angeles.
What a worlds fair would do cannot
be estimated, but it is my candid opin-
ion that it would add 100000 persons
to Los Angeles"
Mr.. Wonderly left last night for
Yosemite Park, where he will spend
several days. After his tour in the
park he will go to Salt Lake City,
thence to Denver and st. Louis. Dur
ing his brief stay in Los Angeles Mr..
Wonderly has been SO favorably inn
pressed with Los Angeles that he will
return in September. He viii bring his
son with him and the two will at once
go into business here.