Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-29
Los ANGELES IS
FAR IN LEAD
SEATTLE MAN DELIGHTED
WITH CITY
Declares Car System Here Is Living
Example of FalIacy of Municl.
pal Ownership Fad-Has
Had Experience

A man who is so charmed with Los
Angeles at the first glimpse that he has
heightened an intended stay of one day
until it has now reached one week and
will reach several more before it comes
to a conclusion, is Ed Cudiaha, former
sheriff of Seattle and one of the leading
business men of that city.
Mr.. Cudiaha has just returned from
the east and stopped In Los Angeles
en- route for Seattle, intending to stay
between trains. He passed the few
hours visiting some of the suburbs and
was so delighted with the place that he
went to the Hollenbeck and has been
there ever since.
ITO tell the truth / would like never
to go away. ] am a loyal Seattle man,
but there are some things you have in
Los Angeles that are better than any
where elese in the world.
81 thought it would be pretty hard to
beat the Seattle street car system, but
1 must confess the system in Los An
geles beats that and every other system
1 have seen in any city in the world.
Likes Street Car System
IT have ridden on the cars here every
day and 1 have been more surprised
with each new trip. People talk about
wanting street railways under munich
pal control-they should come to Los
Angeles and see how one private COR
poration runs a street car system.
1--WE have had a lot of municipal
ownership talk in Seattle during the
last year, but none of the proposed
measures have carried. A municipal
ownership mayor was elected last
March and soon after there was plan
to buy the street railway system. The
question come to the vote of the people
in September and they declined to vote
the heavy bonds necVessary for the city
to gain control.
"The measure was defeated by large
majority, and now there seems to be a
quiet where all the municipal ownership
storm was brewing.
1.-The municipal ownership mayor was
elected like the Chicago municipal
ownership mayor was, much on the
strength of this measure, but nothing
has been done to bring the utilities
under control
1--WE have a fine mayor and he is fol-
lowing a very conservative policy. The
city is better in every way under this
administration than 1t has ever been
/ think the administration has begun to
realize that 1t had better let municipal
ownership alone. We have a fine rail-
way system and the people are begin
| nlnB 10 Ieel lndl lHey hau petleI w
content with what they have than tc
make any such gamble as the municipal
control plan would necessitate.
is Mere Political Capital
"In many cases, in fact in most
cases, this municipal ownership idea is
used more for political capital than fol
anything else. 1 do not say that this
was the case in Seattle, but / do think
| a. is trtta NJ most cities and the fact
that very few of them ever evolve any
thing out of their municipal ownership
plans, even after they have a munich
pal mayor, helps TO bear out my theory
People are very apt to be carried
away by theories. They are not con-
tent with old things and are always
seeking for something new. If II ii
given to them In glowing words they
receive 1t as a message OF deliverancs