Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-13
GROWTH is
MARVELLOUS
BUSINESS SECTION EXPANDS AT
RAPID RATE
MANY IMMENSE STRUCTURES
BUILDING
Returned AngeIeno Would Find Many
Things Which Would Cause Ex-
cIamatlons Of Surprise and
Wonderment

1t is interesting to watch the trans
formation of the different streets as they
develop section by section.
He isn't much of an old-timer who can
recall the small territory occupied by the
chief business houses when the citys
great growth set in. 1t is only few
years, so few, in fact. that their number
is insignificant and unbelievable by the
newly arrived easterner, since a dozen
squares would have included all that were
worth while. Some of our enthusiasts will
insist that we have exaggerated the size
of the section and that we do not appre-
ciate the mammoth strides the city has
taken.
We shall agree, however, on the wide
extent that now exists for we shall not
be dependent upon memory but upon OBJ
servation
If one who was so unfortunate tas to
be away from the city few years re-
turns now ard wanders UP to old Temple
court he will not be sure but that he
has lost his bearings. The big federal
building, now In process of construction,
and the sky-scraping International bank
structure, well along toward completion,
will probably cause him some confusion
in the reading of his compass. Things
will not look the same to him as they
did of yore.
Without stopping to wonder at the
fine new San Fernando structure and the
splendid blocks which have lined Man
street for some time but only to notice
those, now going up, the corner at Sixth
band Main will be a genuine surprise.
The great Huntington depot and office
building, one of the largest on the west
ern half of the continent, will lose sonic
of its lonely aspect. The Kirckhoff will
rear itself proudly on the northeast
corner while diagonar1y across the street
the Central will lift it's ten stories as
If 1t did not intend to be outdone by
it's neighbors.
A Busy Corner
1t is estimated that as many as thirty
Thousand people pass this interesting
point each week day at present. How
many more will be added to the number
when these new office hives are alive with
their teeming tenants and the latters'
clients only the future will reveal Ger
tain 1t is that this long thoroughfare will
Iese none of it's old-time prestige, but on
the contrary will continue to advance at
rate limited only by the city's grow
ing demands. s
The returned wanderer will not need
take the time to walk on out to Eleventh
and Main and look at the workmen en-
gagged on another 100000 business and
apartment HOuSe u nave llt impression
strengthened, nor be informed of the two
buildings assured at Fifth, but may pass
over to Spring street and take view
of the six-story Lissner building with
it's Gothic front. Just a few steps away
rears the great Security pile. AS our
friend takes the swift flight up the ele-
vator shaft and catches feeting glances
of the marble lined corridors and the
cement floors which run away In the
distance he will think this massive struc-
ture has surely been builded for the ages.
He will need to have his attention
called to the fact that he is now in the
new banking district. When he left the
city it was farther down toward Temple
court, but banks are as sensitive to the
movement and expansion of business
sections as a photographers plate to
rays of light.
Crowded Broadway
To save time. let him cross over at this
point to crowded Broadway and as he
rounds the Fifth street corner he may
be informed that next April will see the
erection of ten-story fireproof addition
to the famous Alexandria hostelry, CIV
ing it frontage ON three streets.
A glance across the street, block to
the left, will show him the new six-story
home of the Jevne company; and beyond,
on the same side of the street on which
he STANDS, ne Will see lit IA CpiOoi = VI :
reste- building with another Gothic
front, steadily climbing to it's sixth story.
He may miss the full effect of the height
of the Trustee building, No. 2, by not
stopping a moment after crossing the
thronged thoroughfare, which will re-
orire extreme caution If the time be mid
afternoon with its stream of shoppers,
but he must hurry over to Hill street be-
fore he is tired out and take brief look
at the skyscraping Wright & Calender
structure and the home of the Young Wo-
mems Christian association and the big
annex to the Boston store all in process
of erection.
Our friend might have been saved
leg weariness if he had been driven
about in one of the city's thousands of
automobiles, but he wouldn't have ap-
preciated the immense growth which
has made Los Angeles the metropolis
of the southwest. From the old Ham
burger store out to the new Hambur-
ger place at Eighth street and Hill and
broadway. a palace which will contain
every appointment of the most up-to-
date department labyrinth, Is a long
distance and when our former citizen
trayerses it by the devious route our
tour of observation has necessitated
and recalls that he has seen nothing
to the north of Temple court, he will
gain an impression of Los Angeles
Increased Importance as commercial
center which will elicit nothing but
exclamations of surprise and wonder
ment