The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-10
Tourist Makes Some Trenchant
Remarks Concerning the
Cities Named.
POINTS OUT REFORM
NEEDED IN ZION
In Location and Natural Advan-
tages Salt Lake Is Su-
peri0r to All.

A correspondent in Los Angeles, who.
| though absent in person from Salt
Lake, Is ever present in spirit. and is
| boosting all the time for Zion, sends
The Tribune the following communica-
| tion, which contains some excellent ad-
vice, that may be followed with much
profit;
This is Labor day, and as there is moth
ing doing here, on account Of the holiday.
will put in my time by giving you
TOURISTS Impressions" Of Los Angeles
and vicinity IL being remembered that
the aforesaid Tourist" Is 'mossback"
from Salt Lake,
Now, you can publish every word
say, and | expect TO be In Salt Lake soon
and will be prepared to substantiate
every word by positive evidence What
/ want TO Impress on your mind is that
Salt Lake City is so situated and has
so many natural advantages that II Is
superior to any city west OF the Mis-
souri, river, and with the best OF feeling
toward Los Angeles. still. / will not
make 1t an exception over Salt Lake City.
Splendid Street Car System.
Los Angeles and vicinity are booming.
They are tearing down better buildings
10 erect larger ones there than Salt Lake
can boast on her main streets. Los An
geles' street-car system is a dream
a car OH nearly any line in the city from
three TO five minutes. sometimes less. and
the cars are great big fellows open at
each end and a closed section in the CEN
ter and IL is seldom one has to stand
The motorman attends strictly TO his
business. and the conductors are quiet,
oblising and prompt. You can get on
any car there in the morning and arrive
at your destination before midnight You
don't have to break your neck trying TO
catch the last car. ] have not seen at
any time the line held up because the
power was off, or car on the track"
The aim and object of both the company
and its employees are TO accommodate
the public and advance the interests OF
the city. and impress the stranger with
Its advantages. or course, they have ac-
cidents and people get hurt; but Los An
geles streets are narrow and the city
has population Of nearly $50 900, and its
streets are filed with people who are as
alive and alert and busy as a colony
OF ants In a hill. Put Salt LAKE street
car crew on one of the Los Angeles cars
and they would Kill or MAIN some one
In every block. fall behind time and put
the car out of commission before they
reached the end OF the line.
The Secret Of Success.
To my mind. the great secret of Los
Angeles success is due to the cohesive
and optimistic quality Of It's residents.
It's moneyed men are all ready and eager
10 spend the money to advance the city's
interests as we'll as their own. and every
resident OF the city is standing shoulder
TO shoulder back of them TO support and
boost their efforts. Consequently, the
capitalist is always ready 10 take a
chance and always strives to keep little
ahead Of the demand, and the result is
that fne buildings and enterprises are be-
ing built and promoted The city is
growing. and every resident is a unani
nous and optimlstic unit in spreading
and impressing on the strangers mind
the advantages and desirabllity OF the
city as q place TO do business and make
II their home; IN other words, Los An
geles is run by her citizens and their
interests are supreme, while Salt Lake
is run by "one-man band on 10 per
cent basis, and her citizens are only con-
sdered as an appendage that is not enti-
tied TO any other consideration above
ability to pay 10 per cent for the prlvi-
lege of being on earth. Start TO knock"
Los Angeles to her inhabitants. and you
will suddenly be wiped OF the map. Start
to knock Salt Lake to her inhabitants,
and II they are out OF earshot OF GER
tain point they will ''bristle up but II
they are within hearing distance Of this
certain point, you Will start an anvil
chorus that Will make you wish you
were anywhere else on earth but in Salt
Lake.
One OF the Salt Lakers who is rapidly
coming TO the front In Los Angeles Is
Joe Dederich. who has magnificent
home on Coronado street near Wiltshire
boulevard. and is also building $4,000
home on Occidental boulevard. in Ram
part Heights. which is the swellest and
most exclusive residence section IN the
city. Mr.. and Mrs. Dederich are both
becoming very popular on account OF their
jolly dispositions and hearty manner In
entertaining their friends in Los Angeles
and from Salt Lake.
Harry Joseph not satisfied with own
ing one Of the best mines In Tlntic, has.
with James Ferguson. late OF Terminal
Island started In 10 buy up all the best
real estate in Searchl!ght, New, with the
expectation OF cleaning up few millions
as soon as the Santa Fe railroad, which Is
about seventeen miles away, gets In
there.
Wishes He Was Home.
l have had a very pleasant time down
here, but am looking forward to the
happy day when ] can get a drink OF
good old City creek water and my
lungs filled with good. cool canyon air.
away from the hcas and the grafters,
from the bum fruit that never saw Cali
fornla until it arrived there In crate:
from the water that was poor and slckly
when they found IT and beat the life out
OF II before they gave IL TO one to drink;
from the land OF poor meat and real os-
tate sharks: from the country that Is the
best boosted place on earth. but has
nothing real to offer you but climate. and
soaks you well for that
Salt Lake is so far ahead In Its natural
advantages and opportunities that there
is no comparison. and II we could only
get rid OF the "Old Man of the Sea- who
Is perched on the neck Of Its progress, we
would soon arrive TO the height and dig
nifty Of real live American city; not as
II now Is, simply private preserve"
This is long TRADE. but 1T is reflex
of how this Tourist feels after taking
In the delights and bumps In both Los
Angeles and Salt Lake, and my sentiment
is, Salt Lake for me-" My writing this
to you is because I am sick. sore and
tired hearing people from Salt Lake tell
OF how beautiful and reasonable and su-
perlor Los Angeles IS to Salt Lake. where
II they would only do for Salt Lake what