Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-11


tain.
The sea won't come to Los Angeles
but Los Angeles will go to the sea.
Vessels today cannot unload theil
cargoes on wharves along Alameda
street, but Alameda street can be bull
straight to our own free mole an6
wharves extending out into the waters
of our harbor at San Pedro.
And it will be done, just as sure as
there is a harbor at San Pedro and
an Alameda street that points that
way from the heart of the center of
| this great Los Angeles 1t is only a
| question of time. and I might add that
| it is not so much a question of time
as it is a question of willing to do it,
The necessary drinking water for
Greater Los Angeles was not here so
| we took twenty-three million dollars
and went over the mountains and got
It.
Picture to yourself the fair angel of
Los Angeles holding in her left hand
the cornucopia from which pours out
upon this city the blessed waters from
the owens river, whose right hand up
holds this little nursing of the future,
and imagine the little finger to be
lSutTOd street, the TIIlR IIlSeT
avenue and the great strong one South
Main, below the junction of Spring
and Broadway; the index finger is
Central avenue and the thumb is Ala
media street; then declare that all these
five should be as one from the present
city limits to the sea. Then build this
grand boulevard and you have solved
more problems for the future of this
city and made more actual progress
for its advancement and prosperity
than the past twenty-siX years of
transcontinental railways or the past
five years of interurban electric rail-
way building.
In one short year we have seen the
Owens river project become trans
formed from a possibility into a prac-
teal assurance and rapidly becoming
an acknowledged fact. 1t is something
that should always have been done
the wonder is that it has not been done
before now. And in another year we
can perform this new miracle, which
will be but the nucleus the pattern
and the persuasive argument for it's
extension northward into Pasadena,
westward from the end of Sunset boul-
evard to the sea at Santa Monica,
southwark along the Strand for fifty
miles from beach to promontory, clear
to San Pedro, there connecting with
these five streets made into one grand
boulevard, the Ell Commercial Rialto,
that kings highway, which shall COM
bine the speedway, the highway, the
tramway, the byway and the causeway
whereby and whereon Los Angeles in
all its departments of commerce and
industries shall march straight to the
ocean, to it's own free mole and wharf
in it's own free harbor.
This is as necessary for this city as ii
is for man to breathe and if we con-
slider the Owens river as Los Angeles
left lung we should consider San Pedro
harbor as her right, and when Los
Angeles takes one long, good, deep
breath with both its lungs expanded
and let's out it's first lusty cry, 81 am
consolidated from the mountains to the
sea, I am the city, the grandest that
is to be-" it will be heard the whole
world around and the wise men from
the east will recognize the star that
predicts future greatness and follow it
to the west where it shines clear and
steady over US, proclaiming Here is
the place to bring your gifts" And
they will.
Huntington Park, Watts Compton,
Long Beach, Terminal Island, Will
and San Pedro, Naples, Hunt
ington Beach and Newport all should |
be as interested in this Ell Commercial
Rialto, this kings highway of COM
merce as is Los Angeles.
Rome had the viaducts and the good |
roads. New York had the good harbor, |
but Los Angeles stands alone in all the
world as the city that was builded |
without strike (the temple that was |
builded without sound of hammer), and |
combines the other three elements |
of greatness and adds thereto its great
est reason. THE best climate on
earth" and the best lighted business |
streets on earth-Broadway Spring and |
Main-which unite to make the begin
ming of Ell Commercial Rialto and con-
tinue all these things to the sea.
Good roads alone mean 100,000,000 of
American money annually to France.
Give us good roads, and turn the tide
of travel to sunny Southern California.
Frank A. Munsey says in his Decem-
Der, 1905. magazine:
Starting with a basis of $4,000, 900
or thereabouts of the selling value of
new cars for the present year 1t is a
fully reasonable estimate that the total
direct income to France from the
and automobiling, includ-
ing all wages and the value of all
will reach up to well nigh
5000 900, 900.
40 turn the tide of travel to any
section OF the world is something tndl
cannot be done by deliberate pur-
pose and undertaking. 1t must come
about from deeper and more funda-
mental causes than the scheme of
or organization, but
once flowing into a country it is apt
10 remain until the great underlying
causes or development turn it back or
aside.
"Give us good roads, and a hundred
million dollars of American money that
now goes annually to enrich Europe
will remain at home to build bigger
and stronger our great country.
I'VE have here one hundred, perhaps
five hundred to one of any other coun-
try who can afford to go in for auto
We have the money, the
and the country.
ut is estimated that there are today
employed in France, in one way or
another in the automobile industry,
and all that pertains thereto, includ-
ng the care and repair of cars, more
han 100000 people," or about the pop
llation of Los Angeles
oh, for the gift of Midas touch that
1ne might transform every page of
every book in the Carnegie libraries of