Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
LOS ANGELES A SAFE CITY

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Because there was once a terrible
earthquake in southeast Missouri did
st. Louis become panic stricken, and
did people say they'd never go near 1t
again? Yet st. Louis is only one-Sxth
the distance from New Madrid. Mo-,
that San Francisco is from Los An
geles.
Because Chicago had a terrible fire
forty odd years ago, did Milwaukee
grow pale and it's people flee? Yet Mil
waukee is only one-fifteenth as far
from Chicago as Los Angeles is from
San Francisco.
Because Charleston, S. c., had Sc
we're and heavily fatal quake in recent
years, doing vast damage, did Column
bia. or Atlanta, or Wilmington aban-
don themselves to despair? Yet these
places are not an eighth to tenth
as far from Charleston as San Fran
cisco is from Los Angeles.
Because Galveston was almost wiped
from the earth by tidal wave, did
Houston believe it also was to be blot
ted out? Or New Orleans? Or Port
Arthur? Yet these places are hundreds
of miles nearer Galveston than San
Francisco is to Los Angeles.
Because Johnstown, Pa, was oblit-
Grated by a flood, did Pittsburg shiver?
Yet Pittsburg claims Johnstown as
suburb. while San Francisco is twenty
hours travel from Los Angeles.
Anyone VINO thinks that Los Angeles
was in the slightest degree in danger
from the San Francisco catastrophe
should try to think sanely. Los Angeles
is 475 miles from San Francisco-almost
as far as Denver is from st. Louis;
farther than Kansas City is from Chi
cago by 100 miles! Would Chicago be
alarmed if Kansas City sunk into an
abyss?
Besides, Los Angeles rests on utterly
different physical strata from those un-
derlying San Francisco. The latter are
either of volcanic origin, or made
ground; Los Angeles soil is alluvlal'
deposited here by the recession OF the
ocean, years ago. The Tehachapi noun
tains divide California into two distinct
regions. climatically different and ut
terly unlike in formation, history and
conditions governing.
San Francisco has always had earth
ouakes; previous ones have been al
most as severe-though they never had
as much to destroy, nor such terrible
fires-which have done most OF the
damage-thereafter
Los Angeles never had a real earth
quake; it, in common with every part
of the United States, has now and then
a tremble. So did every part of the
United States last week-Washington'
Cleveland and other cities report the
same effects.
For anyone in or out of Los Angeles,
to have the slightest apprehension over
the awful fate of San Francisco is the
height of folly. 1t is physically and
scientifically impossible to repeat in
Los Angeles the tragedy at Frisco.
Therefore, let the few who have been
alarmed by the blatant yellow lies OF
! the Hearst mouthpiece, which could get
no real news and avenged itself by
printing malicious falsehoods, quiet
down and help the rest of Los Angeles
in succoring the stricken and prepar-
ing for the great influx sure to come
here.
And let those in the east who may
not understand the situation, and who
have been misled by these falsifiers,
remember that Washington is nearer
Boston by many miles than we are to
San Francisco; that conditions between
the two great cities are more widely
apart than they are between New Or
leans and st. Louis; let them quiet
down and continue their plans to come
here and enjoy the best climate on
earth, free from all that terrfles and
makes afraid.