Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29


| ton, representing all of the principal
commercial firms of Los Angeles, now
realize that they are up against 1t IN
| business way to meet the demands
made upon them to provide supplies
! for San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley,
| San Jose, Santa Rosa and other north
ern cities, while supplying goods for the
| regular home trade. They have stood
! together like trained soldiers, and thus
| far they feel that they have met the
emergency in the business world in a
| creditabe manner.
| Up and down Los Angeles street, and
wherever there is a wholesale house,
| goods of every description have been
boxed and loaded for shipment north
during the past week, and the ship
Inents will continue this week and for
an indefinite period. Never before in
local history has such general activity
| been witnessed in the wholesale dis
tricts.
And while the goods are going north
! by train and steamer, heavily laden
trains from the Atlantic coast are COM
ing speedily to Los Angeles to again
fill the storehouses of the wholesalers.
New Wholesale Companies
Frank Simpson of the jobbing firm Of
Simpson G. Hack is in close touch with
events in the wholesale district. Los
Angeles will immediately grow in busi-
ness Importance" said Mr.. Simpson,
land the entire state will witness sew
eral years of great prosperity. Sew
eral hundred millions of dollars are to
be expended in San Francisco, and the
| call will be instant for material and
I labor There will be no excuse for idle
ness. Skilled mechanics and common
laborers will be in demand at good
| wages.
| LOS Angeles is now the big city of
| the west-the great commercial city,
and our growing metropolis will be-
| come better known and more highly ap-
rreciated than ever in her history. Big
things are coming our way. I person.
ally know that the California Fruit
Dispatch company, company with a
capital of $4,000, 900, with offices in New
York, will establish it's principal offices
and storehouses permanently in Los
Angeles.
Curacao to Stop at San Pedro
Here's another. The firm of Can
alize, Trillanes & Co., purchasing
agents for all kinds of supplies for the
principal firms in Mexico, had offices
| in San Francisco. This firm has decided
to establish it's principal offices in Los
Angeles. and orders have been given to
| have the companys steamer, the Cur
acao, stop regularly at San Pedro on its
down trip to receive supplies from Los
! Angeles"
Change of Headquarters
e. Avery Mccarthy of the Mccarthy
Real Estate company said: I'VE have
been gradually transferring our in
vestments from San Francisco to Los
! Angeles for the past two years, and
our principal holdings in San Francisco
are in suburban property. Other in
| terests are loans on improved property
and if any of it is in the burned dis
trict the insurance will cover the loss.
| Our San Francisco office was at 646
Market street, in the Chronicle build
ing, but we changed the legal head
quarters and principal place of bus
mess of the company last January to
our building at 203 North Broadway,
Los Angeles; hence all our most i'm
| portant papers, records, etc, are here.
/ own personally some apartments in
| the best residence district on Pacific
Heights, half block from the John
| D. Spreckels mansion, which latter
building was seriously damaged owing
| to the fact that it was highly orna-
mented with stone and terra Gotta cor
nice, bas reliefs and caps, balustrades
and columns. My place is reported un-
| injured and l can only attribute it to
| the fact that it was built on solid
ground with heavy concrete founda-
tions and all of most thorough frame
construction"
Los Angeles Will Expand
1.-THE effect upon Los Angeles? No
effect upon people who are fully in
formed. Unfortunate millions of east
ern people not used to our magnif-
| icent distances place Los Angeles and
San Francisco across the river from
each other. and until they can be
shown that 500 miles of space, three
mountain ranges and many broad val
leys separate us, they will think, like
the mountaineers of the south, that the
war is still on A year from now our
census will show the effect on Los
Angeles in a large increase"
Eastern CoIonists Coming
A strong indication of the increased
demand for home sites in Southern
California is contained in the fact
that a tract of 700 acres of land be-
tween Whittier and Fullerton was
purchased yesterday by homeseekers'
club of 109 families under the auspices
of the California Home Extension as
sociation.
This association is one of the largest
colonization factors in the state and
has during the past year established
two large colonies and the two new
towns of Greenfield and Alpaugh in
Central California. All land purchased
by this association is secured for actual
residents, who have formed themselves
into a club to go upon the grounds
and Immediately improve their places
and develop an actual townsite with
readymade population. Stores, town
halls, parks and other public institu-
tions are all provided in advance. The
fact of 100 families moving in one body
at this time very clearly shows what
the mental attitude of the local home
site question is in the minds of the
eastern homeseekers who secure their
places through this organization.
Colony for Southern California
Speaking of the new home extension
settlement which is to be called Edge
brook, Edward Greenfield, president
of the organization, said: 1--WE don't
want it understood that we shall not
establish more colonies in Central or
Northern California, for we shall un-
doubtedly do so when the fall season