Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-15
GREAT FUTURE
IS PREDICTED
SAYS LOS ANGELES WILL BE
IMMENSE CITY
Leon MandeI Of Chicago Says oppor-
tunlty Is at Hand to Far OUT
strip All Competitors
Of Coast

II do not see any reason why within
the next few years the city of Los An
geles should not rise far above every
other city of the coast and be the rep
resentatlve metropolis of the west"
Such was the statement of Leon Man
del, merchant prince of Chicago who
arrived in Los Angeles yesterday from
Coronado on winter tour of the west.
Mr.. Mandel is accompanied by his wife
and daughters, Misses Blanche and
Florence, and will remain in Los An
geles two weeks before leaving for
Santa Barbara, thence to San Francisco
and to the Hawaiian islands.
II have made some study of the con-
ditlons in Los Angeles since my arrival
in the west" said Mr.. Mandel yester-
day, "and think that with its climate
and its people Los Angeles has great
lead on any of the other cities.
I'm my opinion it will not be many
years before Los Angeles will have out
stripped every other city on the coast,
including San Francisco, and will be
the representative metropolis.
Great Future for Los AgneIes
almost everything in Los Angeles
is on a par with the great eastern
cities The people are progressive and
the business men are competent.
have looked over some of the depart
ment stores of the city and find that
they are being managed under the same
plan that the successful eastern houses
run on.
'The local department stores adver-
tise, and that, if the stores have the
goods to back their advertisements is
one of the most prominent features In
building up q busines.
"The people of this city, from what
experience I have had with them, seem
to be of the same character as the
people of Chicago who built up that
metropolis from a city of about the
size of Los Angeles within the past
score years. They accomplished their
work in the same manner that the local
people are now fighting to attain the
same end, and I can see no reason why
you should not be successful.
"There is no doubt that Los An
geles is one of the best advertised
cities in the country. All Chicago peo-
pie know of Los Angeles as a great
resort for climate and pleasure, where
the easterner can have all the comforts
of eastern life and yet enjoy the mild
of balmy air of the California winter.
Likes Greater City Plan
"Our winter in Chicago this season
has been a remarkably open one and
the weather there for the most part has
been pleasant, and yet from my knowl-
edge and from letters written me by
my relatives l have learned that the
residents there are leaving for the
Pacific coast and chiefly for Los An
geles ON every train.
Many of them come here for visit
and pleasure. Many of them have win
ter houses here and many of them come
here to live, but whether they stay or
travel onward the fame of the city
goes with them and they are not back
ward in praising Los Angeles.
II have paid particular attention to
the proposed Greater Los Angeles and
think it is good thing. There is a
great harbor frontage and many beau
tiful suburban cities to be annexed, but
Los Angeles ought not make the mis-
take that Chicago did. Several years
ago in Chicago energetic men decided
to make the city larger by taking in
the suburbs and thus adding territory
and population. But they went too far
and found that they could not properly
police the great tract. Fire protection
was inadequate, the lighting system
could not be handled properly and there
were miles and miles of roads to be
paved without the proper facilities tC
handle the great increase.
80 that while there is no doubt
that Los Angeles would be blessed By
the increase, the danger of too much
territory is always the first and mos
apparent in a change like the one con
templated'