Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-20
BUSIEST CITY IN
UNITED STATES
AD0LPHUS BUSCH so TERMS
LOS ANGELES
Predicts Population Of a Half
Million In Ten Years and a
Million in Twenty
Years

Years
Los Angeles has a greater future be-
fore 1t than any other city In the
world.
Commercially It Is the busiest city
in the United States today. A spirit
Of enterprise has grip on this city
which It is impossible to excel. The
unparalleled climate itself that you
have here seems to be surcharged
with II.
This is my fourth visit to Los An
geIes. During that time have
watched its growth with no little in-
terest. freely state that have never
seen 1t equaIed. One can hardly find
words to, express the remarkable
change that has taken place in Los
Angeles within the past few years.
The tremendous growth which is so
strikingIy apparent has but COM
menced and l predict a population of
one million within twenty years. Los
Angeles in the full sense of the word
is wonder.-AdoIphus Busch.
Adolphus Busch, father of Wilhelm
ina Busch heir apparent to the Bud
weiser millions, and the prospective
father-in-law of Lieutenant Eduard
Scharrer Of the German army, was q
visitor in this city yesterday and host
at dinner in the. new Hotel Alexan-
dria at which one of the guests was
Lieutenant Scharrer.
Following the dinner Mr. Busch was
shown through the hotel by General
Manager Whitmore. AS the st. Louis
millionaire stood ia an elegantly ap-
pointed apartment on the eighth floor,
overlooking the city from one of the
spacious windows, he declared:
Truly, there is no city like Los An
geles."
Upon what do you base such a glow
ing assertion?" was asked by one of
his guests.
Upon my knowledge of what Los
Angeles has been in the past upon
what Los Angeles was a few years ago
when / paid my, first visit here; upon
the hustle and hustle of the business
streets; upon The remarkable number
up, and upon the tremendous increas Sc
of population. The growth during that
time has been nothing short of Won
derful
Within ten years the population OF
Los Angeles will have reached the
100000 mark and I do not hesitate to
say that in twenty years it will have
reached 1,O00,O00. y .- ~
"As L look out of this window down
on the street aud, see the congestion
of street cars, vehicles and pedestrians,
cannot help but admit that it is equal
to that of any one Of the larger eastern
cities. Even busy st. Louis does not
excel 1t. And this is but a starter to
what it will be within few years.
Los Angeles is what might be called
a play ground for the rich. Wherever
you go you hear persons tell you they
are coming out here-and they do come,
If not Immediately they come later.
Everybody wants to come, and it final
ly results in their arrival. History
shows that a great per cent of the Visi-
tors buy land and build homes.
mo city in the United States is more
clean and more thoroughly metropolis
TAM The business men are wide
awake, up-to-date and apbreciative of
circumstances. Take. for instance this
hotel. There is nothing better in the
country. Every little detail represents
the most modern improvements. The
furnishings are of the most expensive,
most comfortable and most convenient.
Besides, it you take into consideration
the time in which it was built, there is
only one conclusion that can be drawn
from it, The conditions of the city de-
manded it and the supply must be
made equal to the demand.
"The cost of living in a hotel of this
character may be expensive but the
business men of Los Angeles have
learned that they can almost place
whatever price they choose on their
wares, and it is ten to one they will
get them. This could not be the case
If there was not tremendous influx of
people.
"Commercialism in it's present stage
in Los Angeles is at the top notch. My
own business in this city alone has in
creased 100 per cent every year for
the last three years. Every business
man to whom 1 talk agrees with me.
"There can be no question of the
wonderful future that is in store for
Los Angeles. 1t is rapidly approaching
the point where 1t will be the greatest
city in the southwest. The world
wants to come here-the world will
come here. Wealth will pour into Los
Angeles in streams; there is nothing
that can stop it.
1.-THE climate of Southern California
is the finest in the world, and the peo-
pie at large viii go where they can
find the climate that they like the
best. The wealthy will come here
first, the man of moderate means will
follow him. 1t is the natural
sequence of things There is future
in store for the City of Angels that
can hardly be estimated. The time is
not far distant when Los Angeles will
be one of the largest cities of the
world"
At the dinner given yesterday after
noon in the Hotel Alexandria Mr..
Busch's guests were: Lieutenant
Eduard Seharrer of the German army,
Carl Conrad. the mllionaire's private
secretary; F. A. Helm, one of Mr..
Busch's representatives; A. Magnus
and q. c. Farmer, another of the mil
lonaire's representatives.
AS the party left the spacious din
ing hall Mr.. Busch was asked by a
Herald reporter what the outcome of