Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-13
LOS ANGELES CAN DO II

fairs-win be held IN Los Angeles has
created the profoundest interest
throughout California and the west.
The news has sent thrill Of pride
and pleasure pulsins into every heart
and caused every Angeleno to step a
little brlsker and hold his head little
higher.
Papers In the legal formality Of in
cooperating the Universal Peace and
Commerce Exposition company" had
progressed so far last night that the
names of two-thirds OF the millionaire
list Of incorporators had been appended
to the document, and the remaining
signatures viii be affixed today. The
capitalization Of s25,OOO.oOO. SUBSCRIBED
by those who are amply able and will
ing to finance the great enterprise.
signifies that the long-expected project
has been taken UP in earnest and that
from this day forward Los Angeles
will be, in truth and fact, "the worlds
Fair city"
1t Is big undertaking, unquestion-
ably. that Los Angeles has announced
to the world. 1t is nothing less than
purpose to present in this city an in
ternational exposition that will dwarf
every effort Of the kind heretofore at
tempted in the world. The famous ex-
positions in Paris, Chicago, st. Louis and
other cities will not be in the same class
with the greater and grander display
that may be expected from the tenta-
tive plan for the Los Angeles exposition.
No doubt this colossal proposition
does seem, to use the vernacular. like
biting of a chunk too big for convenient
But, however that may be,
the record Of Los Angeles for doing big
things warrants the judgment that the
job will be tackled with the confidence.
prosecuted with the energy and COM
pleted with the perfect success that al
ways can be counted on in this city's
Formidable as the proposition ap-
years, little consideration convinces
that n ia x,atI ,,,it1sx A. IL. "a,
city's ability to handle. Taking into
account the local probabilities In the
period intervening before the year
designated for the exposition. the noun
tain of difficulty shrinks to the propor-
tions of hill.
In 1915 Los Angeles will have popu-
lation larger than any of the American
cities had at the time of its worlds ex-
position, with the single exception of
Chicago. That LOS Angeles will have
population of at least 100000 in 1915 is
as plain as the figures of a simple
problem. A continuance
Of growth at the rate shown during the
last two or three years will assure that
showing nine years hence, and we may
safely assume that the future ratio of
growth will be more rapid than that of
the past.
Los Angeles not only will be in the
million population class Of cities in 1915.
but it will be at the top in all the other
elements of metropolitan progress 1t
will be, without a shadow of doubt. the
Of the great west; not only of
the Pacific coast but of the whole sec
ton of the United States west of the
Missouri river. 1t will be the chief
manufacturing and commercial center
Of the west, a focus Of railway sys-
TENS, having a harbor in touch with
the shipping of the world and an entire
pot for the commerce of all nations.
This outlook at the Los Angeles of
1915 is not overdrawn. glance back
ward at the progress of the city in the
last few years fully justifies this view
of the future. Los Angeles will be big
enough, progressive enough and rich
enough to make complete success of
it's great Universal Peace and Com
merce exposition in 1915.
A glance at the names of those who
are behind this colossal enterprise is
another fact sufficient to warrant pub
lie conhdence-at least throughout Cali
fornla-in its complete success. From
Mr.. Henry e. Huntington down, al
most every man in the project is good |
for more than a million dollars, while |
some Of them are milllonaires. |
What these men undertake is always a |
success 1t could not be otherwise.
Hence there viii be, from the start,