Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES !. ss*s..


Charles Madeira, a travelling sales
man for the well known tool manufac
turing firm of G. e. Jennings & Co. of
New York city, a man who has travelled
all over the United States for ten
years and visited none but the largest
cities! says that there is no city with
the future before it that compares to
that of Los Angeles. He bases his
assertions upon careful observations.
Mr.. Madeira is guest at the Hollen
beck hotel.
Climate, capital, industry and brains
that's what is going to make Los
Angeles" says Mr.. Madeira. You
have it all out here and it's still COM
ing. Its arrival will increase so that
you will not be able to take care of it.
Los Angeles will spread so rapidly that
before you or | fully realize it the pop
ulation will have doubled.
I'm Los Angeles today there is more
business than in any other city in the
United States. l know that to be a
fact. l do more business for my firm
in ten days here than / do in any other
city in three times that length of time.
There is more hustle and hustle on
your Broadway here than in the cor
responding streets in San Francisco, or
even New York city.
Wherever | go and to whomever l
talk it is with a distinct pride that the
name of Los Angeles is mentioned, both
by myself and the persons to whom I
speak. 1t is the ambition of everyone
to at some time come to this city. 1t
is a common expression to hear some
one say 1T has been my ambition all
my life to go to Los Angeles, and I'm
going out there before / die
1T is history that they do come out
here. 1t is evident that they come here
and stay. / spent yesterday and today
in touring the city, and 1 can truth
fully say that in no city in the United
States are there so many buildings,
homes and Improvements under way.
There is nothing like it. This city is a
wonder.
Each time, twice every year for the
last three years, I have visited this
city, and | ca1tnot express myself as the
growth warrants.
mo place in the United States ais
there SO clean, so busy and so thorough
ly a metropolitan street as your Broad
way. The illumination on South Spring
street and South Broadway at night is
the most perfect. Previously l have
been partial to the gas mantle system,
but l believe that the elaborate cleo
troliers you have on those two streets
are the most preferable.
"As a business center of the south
west Los Angeles is more than holding
it's own. When L come into other cities
L am nearly always greeted by the
words, No, l don't think there is any
thing that I want When | come here
they say, What have you got?'
THAT / do business here is clearly
evident by the fact that 1 spend more
of my time playing than buzzing
around for trade. And, as I said, L do
more here than in any other city, none
excepted.
THE merchants are more wideawake
to circumstances and seem to have
keener insight into the future Develop
ment than those of any other city. The
system of window displays on Broad
way ana Spring street need, only be in
spected for a verification of this state
ment I see things out here for the
promotion and increase of business
that l do not find in other places.
There is more originality in Los An
geles than elsewhere, including famed
New York city.
First of all what attracts people to
Los Angeles is the climate, which is
| unparalleled any place in the United
States Perhaps l could say the
world but | have left my native coun-
try. Still there can be no more perfect
| climate anywhere. People will and are
destined to go to those places where the
| climate Is the best. Consult whom you
may and if he has been to Los An
| geles he will say Los Angeles has the
most delightful climate in the world
or, 4 would rather live there than any
| where
"There is a great future for this city
and it is not far off. Los Angeles is
| the playground of the rich and is to
| the world at large what Coney Island
is to New York city. The rich will
come here to spend their money and
others must come here to supply them
with their wants and create new sones
The population in twenty years will
have reached one million. This is not
merely my belief; it cannot help but
| become factF' rtI
| D. Mr.. Madeira is one of the best known
| travelling statesmen in the UnitedrS stat es
whose field isswest of Chicago. He is
also well known throughout the east.
He is al man5weil along in years and
| besides being a shrewd business man is
a keen observer and is known every
! where asia IIiflu who knows whereof he
| speaks.
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