Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
AS A PLACE
OF RESIDENCE
AS PLACE FOR HOMES NO OTHER
CITY is LIKE THIS
Eternal Summer Allows Great Var-
alton in Homes and Gardens.
Residences of Beauty and
Comfort

AS place of residence Los Angeles
challenges the world. 1t has several
times been stated in the course of these
articles that this city has been grow
ing ct he rate of $4,000 year for
seven years past. 1t may be tiresome
to repeat 1t, but there could be no bet
ter evidence of the desirability of Los
Angeles as a city of homes.
The great majority of homeseekers
come here for the climate; that is the
first essential with most But il cli-
mate alone constituted the home at
tractiveness of this city it's population
would increase much more slowly than
1T has done.
For there are other essentials that
cannot be ignored. People must have
the opportunity to earn a living; they
must have good schools for their chill
dren; the church and social life must
be up to requirements, and 30 o. many
other things which go to make up the
sum of human content.
But when one is assured of churches
and schools and amusements, when the
question of employment or income is
not pre-eminent, the chief question is
what are the home facilities?
Los Angeles comprises an area of
forty -four square miles, the topography
including hill and plain and valley.
How the city has grown and how
home-building has been encouraged are
told elsewhere. One thing that per-
haps more than anything else has
helped to make Los Angeles a real
home city is that the lots are forty and
fifty feet wide, usually the latter. as
against the twenty-five-f foot lots in
most other cities.
Then, too the street railway facili-
ties are so good that distance is COM
paratively an unimportant factor. One
may live five or more miles from the
49,. IAe IT,.
now than mile distance say ten years
ago.
Then, too, the mildness of the climate
makes the cost of building cheaper, be-
cause it is not necessary to build so
warmly. Furnaces and hard coal
stoves are luxury. not a necessity.
In thousands of cases people have
erected tent or other frail structure
on the back of their lots and lived in
them with comfort preparatory to
erecting permanent residences
Bungalow land is possible in Los
Angeles as nowhere else, and some of
the local bungalows have secured wide
fame among architects all over the
country.
This city is the chosen home of men
and women from all over the country,
who having acquired a competence
have come to Los Angeles to spend the
remainder of their lives, because they
find mere climatic ana nome lie au-
vantages which they can find nowhere
else in similar degree.
Then, too, the numerous seaside and
foothill and mountain resorts within an
hours ride from Los Angeles help to
make the city especially attractive as a
place of residence.
The flowers must not be forgotten.
The Millionaire may have more flowers
than have those of humber means, but
costlier varieties are not fairer nor more
are not fairer nor moro frag-
rant than those which beautify the
home of the workingman. The cot-
tage. no less than the palace, is vine-
laden and embedded among flowers.
Club life is at it's best in Los An
geles. The California. Jonathan and
university clubs are among the institu-
tions of the city There is a flourish
ing, high-class athletic club, and other
organizations of class are numerous.
The ladies, too. have their clubs ,>and
club houses