Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
LOS ANGELES. THE METROPOLIS

upon and ponder.
Los Angeles, in a condition of abso-
lutte industrial peace, with thoroughly
honest. competent and trusted city gov
ernment, with millions at its back, the
best advertised city in the world, WITH
a harbor of it's own, excellent railroad
facilities, cheap land and start In 9
manufacturing way already marvellous
which is particularly emphasized both
to visitor and resident just now by Its
home products exhibition, demonstrate
ing that it is already factory center OF
vast proportions.
San Francisco, in the throes of the
most anarchistic regime, with its city
government obliterated, its officials
and peace officers under criminal in
dictment and in the shadow of prison,
with no street cars, no telephones, acres
of it's business center in untouched
ruins, armed mobs holding sway in its
thoroughfares and conditions so fright
full that great industrial captains like
C. M. Schwab abandon enterprises such
as vast iron works, throwing up con-
tracts for United States battleships at
a dead loss of $780, 900; capital nervous
and timid, labor impossible to get, ex-
orbitant in wage demands and arro-
giant in conditions-in fine, a city par
alyzed in government industries and
commerce. All this to the great sorrow
and regret of California.
Now, the extraordinary growth of the
great southwest and especially of this
immediate region is calling factories
here by the hundreds constantly. AL
most unnoted by Los Angeles there
have been established here any num-
ber of these factories, and the line OF
products which they turn out is almost
limitless. But the market is so con-
stantly growing and the demands are
so pressing that steady accessions to
their ranks are imperative. The situa-
tion has attracted the attention of east
ern capital in pronounced degree ever
since earthquake and fire wiped out
most of San Francisco, and many
moneyed men have turned their eyes
tablishing themselves here.
A couple of years ago all such in
ouiries would have been directed as
matter of course to San Francisco; its
supremacy was unquestioned. But the
change has come, not only brought
about by the operations of the elements,
but still more by the rotten conditions
Of San Francisco's government and Its
Industrial upheavals. The contrast as
shown here, where government is hon
ored and above suspicion, where peace
reigns and industries of every sort are
manned by workers well paid, happy
and contented, is so striking that
shrewd men of means cannot ignore
them.
Hence it is that the present is wit
Messing an influx of factories here quite
The men who make
things are coming steadily and in
hordes. They have learned that this
city has other things besides climate
and tourists, valuable as those are; they
have found that conditions for manu-
featuring are ideal here, both physically
and in the more necessary financial and
labor lines; they have had demonstrat-
ed to them by actual vision that fac
tories are in profitable operation here,
turning out their products daily and in
quantities, of the high
est qualities and pouring them into an
evergrowing market, loyal to home
made goods At the exposition now
holding they see these things made and
the interest that is felt in them as dem
onstrated by the hundreds of thou
sands who have crowded the show
room. And they have asked and ascer-
tained the reasons for all of it. And
the reasons look good to the shrewdest
of them.
Los Angeles still boasts her climate,
the best on earth. She still brags of her
tourists, who come year after year; of
her fruits and flowers and the charm
of living here. But she now adds the
claim of being the metropolis of the
Pacific coast, the biggest city west of
st. Louis, q manufacturing center or
decided greatness, home of industrial
peace and plenty. where money is lib
orally offered and men are happy and
contented in their work; where strikes
are almost unknown and never of con-
sequence, and where growth is only a
matter of keeping UP with the process
sion. All these things Los Angeles Of
fers to the factory and the works; it is
open to all corners, and the rapid acces-
sion of manufacturing establishments is
it's strongest assurance that it makes
every claim good.
And with this picture before them,
with the gloomy sketch of San Fran
cisco beside it for contrast, is it any
wonder that Los Angeles industries are
growing at most amazing pace?