Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

and doubtless does deplore the snow
storms and blizzards which swept over
the entire east last week. the average
citizen Of this blessed cline cannot
but feel measure Of satisfaction In
the fact that he has been wise enough
to lay his lot in life in a region devoid
OF all such manifestation of natures
harsh moods. while at the same time
he extends hearty invitation to his
benighted friends in the east to come
out and share the joys that are here
free to all.
It takes onl.- a good stiff blizzard
to start the hegira westward Of the
wealthy and those with means enough
to move ahead OF winters blasts and
this class Of visitors here is increasing
about as fast as Los Angeles can take
care Of them, anyhow; so little need be
said to them. They are not persons
who will likely come here to reside
permanently: at least not till they
have accumulated vast fortunes and
build palaces and pass their last days
in luxurious ease. They are regular
annual visitors. Meanwhile, they keep
up our splendid hostelries and our
many resorts, and pour a golden flood
into the country which enriches this
whole region. They know its winter
charms. and every day now records
more and more arrivals from this class.
But The Herald wants to say word
today to the man of moderate means
who perhaps has never been out here;
who must face the weather Of what
ever cline he may live in. month after
month; who cannot go to the far north
in summer or to California in winter;
who must buy ice six months of the
year and coal the rest of the time in
order to bear the weather's inflictions.
To that man, visit to California will
usually mean a permanent move. And
it is to him that The Herald says: Why
not a trip here with wife and family
for good and all?
Aye, why not?
What cannot be had here that the
east affords? Nothing. Schools.
churches, society, work, advantages;
all are here, in plenty, and of even
higher grade. A farmer can come here
and make a better living on far less
land, much easier than on the wornout
soil of the east. mechanic carpen-
ter, machinist, any one of the skilled
craftsmen, can find here an open-shop
city, with work fairly crying out for
hands. A teacher, stenographer, clerk,
may have to look longer. but the very
rapidity of growth insures an opening
in less time than would be available
in the eastern cities, overcrowded as
they are. A builder contractor or
operator will see almost a virgin field
open to his attack. Merchants will
find trade simply for the asking; there
hasn't been a failure in Los Angeles
in many months; the shops simply cam
not supply the demands. The hotel
and boarding house keepers look upon
Los Angeles as a gold mine.
And all this, remember, amid almost
perfect climatic conditions; in a region
where 1t is never cold, almost never
hot; where one may bathe in the surf
on Christmas day, and in three hours
by trolley stand on a mountain in a
snowdrift; where one may pick flow
ers out of doors every day in the year,
or see the white capped mountains in
their eternal SHOWS on July 4; where
one never need swelter nor freeze, nor
suffer from weather extremes from one
years end to another
This is all an actuality. Not dream
nor promoters hot air." but a
demonstra bic fact, to which hundreds
of thousands of residents delightedly
testify every hour There is no shadow
Of doubt about 1t; one has but to come
here to see for himself. And now is
the time to come; while the ice and
snow burden the east and chill the
marrow in the bones, we of Los An
geles are luxuriating in thin clothes,
living in the open air, without fires
or heat, enjoying the finest of fresh
fruits. berries and vegetables growing
in our gardens, filling our houses with
the rarest of earth's flowers, growing
all about us.
We have these things to show; it is
simply up to the benighted. benumbed
easterner to come and share them.
They await you, in greatest abundance.
Will you leave the SHOWS and ice-cold
land, where you battle with the ele-
ments the year through, and come into
Gods latter day Garden of Eden?
Why, of course you will.