Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-16
BRITON LIKES
BALMY CLIMATE
HOPES TO PURCHASE HOME IN
CALIFORNIA
Prospective Resident Has Scare When
He Hears Of Municipal Ownership
Candidate Running for Mayor
Of Los Angeles

Somewhere in Southern California
there is a piece of land for me, ana
when / find just the right one L am
going to purchase 1t and then snail
return to England and bring my family
here" said Gerald Hambrough OF
Rotterdam, England, who was at the
Lankershim last night.
Mr.. Hambrough says he has fallen In
love with California and has determined
to bring his family here. He Is a typ
ical English tradesman of the best
type. quick TO grasp problems and give
them intelligent analysis.
MIR. Hambrough admits he has
amassed a snug fortune and declares
he will bring his wife, who has never
been in the best of health, to the MID
and equable climate of Southern Cah-
fornia.
IT have been here three weeks and
have divided my time between looking
after prospective homes and reading the
recent files of the Los Angeles news
papers. was first attracted to the
newsnapers by bit of a Los Angeles
journal 1 picked up at san Diego IL
was an old number ana my eye lell
upon an article referring to the elec-
tion of the Los Angeles borough. L
was bitterly disappointed in the para
graph l read, for L gathered from 1t
that the candidate for mayor OF Los
Angeles on the municipal ownership
ticket stood a good chance OF pelns
elected.
Alarmed by Runor
"That statement almost started me
back to England without lano ol 9 nolil9
in California. My host put me ailshI
and he seemed much annoyed that the
niece of paper had been brought TO
his house. He explained that ne never
allowed a copy of that journal III I ms
hotels Then I was advised that the
rounicinal trading candidate had never
+ha e1iqhtest chance of being elected
.mavor of Los Angeles, and that despite
the fact many Socialists and macon
tents had voted for him, the vote was
s,,oIl and he was Overwhelmingly de-
feated. ,,, oe
"Thev told me that one branch OF a
trades union in Los Angeles nad 4ooV
members. and that not nearly IhdI
MANY votes had been cast for the party
nandidate, That convinced me that
the people of Los Angeles want no hlu-
nicipal ownership. J..
"You see. | am a bit interested in
this municipal trading business.
have been through 1t all. ours Is
a small borough of about 10000 popula-
tion. We have long operated our Trans
under municipal ownership. we palu
over half million dollars Tor theln-
NOT much money here, but an enormous
,,.o,,n+ for q small place like Rother-
dam OF this debt we have only paid
about $4,000 and we shall be ninety
Years paying off the rest at that rate
However, we shall have that a1talr
settled nearly half century before
we shall have settled for our munlclp-
ally owned gas plants. we are ueep
In the mire of the semi-soc1allstlc ven
hn ENnpliQh 01t1eS
witch have dabbled with the delus1on
of public trading are III "oiSo 'oiie'i' io--
than we are.
.1Tbe indebtedness of all these NUM-
oinolities is enormous and increasing IN
most instances by leaps and pounus'
owing to the immense annual denclts.
These increased rates. or taxes, now
ever. in the last analysis, fall upon the
WORKERS as indeed all taxes do; Dut
it is this very class tnat EoIes iot 80.
creased municipal bonding for purchas-
inp The system is creating in Eng
land a new aristocraCy of office mold
ers~a new intrenched class of polltl-
clans.
'"These men are, for the greater num-
ber shreWd enough to manage atfalrs
for their own good. They increase our
rates to establish sinecures OF once.
The middle and working classes In
do fhe same classes in California.
with these things in mind do you
wonder I was alarmed at the false re
mort in an unscrupulous paper that
the neople of Los Angeles were about
TO embrace this ghastly doctrine?
"T was glad to know that no such
conditions hold, otherwise should not
invest a cent here. I expect to estab-
lish a country place and have home
in Los Angeles"