Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-01
RAILROADS PREPARING FOR BIG
RUSH
Special Rates from Eastern Cities Go
Into Effect Today-Many
Cars Will Come
Daily
All roads lead to Los Angeles.

before been experienced.
Each succeeding year the tourist busi-
ness increases, making agent lie awake
nights 10 devise means of providing trans
portatlon TO guard against anything
like a car shortage, the maintenance
and equipment departments of the variousN
roads have been busy for the past fewk
weeks overhauling and refurnishing all
the available rolling stock.
Over the Salt Lake route there will be
six daily through sleepers, two leaving
both Chicago and st. Louis and one from
Minneapolis and st. Paul and one from
Kansas City. Most of the tourist busi-
ness is drawn from the middle western
states, but the colonists come from all
over the east.
The latter class includes persons from
all the working classes, farmers who
have heard of the land of perpetual sun
shine, artisans and mechanics who want
to escape the rigors of the eastern winter.
and others who combine business and
pleasure in trip to the far famed land
of winter roses. .
To the average easterner the idea that
one section of the country can be both
a summer and winter resort seems abb
surd, and their curiosity is aroused For
them only seeing rs believing, and be-
ginning Wednesday or Thursday the
streets of the metropolis of Southern CAL
ifornia will be thronged with fasteners,
all anxious to be Shown.
Shows Teach Lesson
After the first few weeks they will
tell you, oh yes, we have weather like
this at home in the fall" But when the
autumn days grow perceptibly shorter,
and they read of the eastern trains be-
ing stalled in ten-foot snow drifts, or of
the blzzards raging across the prairies,
while they are enjoying a day at the
beach or climbing up the steep slopes of
Mt. Lowe and eating their lunch out of
doors, they wake up to the wonderful
climate here and are glad they came.
Perhaps one of the greatest surprises
in store for the new arrivals is to find
Los Angeles a real live metropolitan city.
To those who are unacquainted with it's
size and commercial Importance, the City
of the Angels is in class with other re-
sort cities of the east. They think of
Atlantic City. if they happen to be from
the far east, and expect to find board
walk and merry-go-round, for on the
railroad maps, the real source of much
of modern geography, Los Angeles ap-
pears to be right on the coast.
During the long days on the trains
crossing the desert they absorb much of
their gratuitous literature between sta
tions, and talk over the side. trims they
intend to take. If they are iHterestea
in the news of the day they will buy stale
Denver or Salt Lake papers With re-
signed air. spurning the coast papers as
being too far west to have any real news.
The next day they wake up to find the
eastern papers the same as when they
went to slee, for they have been travel
ing ahead of them, and the news butcher
inveigles them into buying the same
papers they refused the day before. The
lxr1rr fIrtd m
news they read in the home papers ana
marvel at their own perspicacity.
Get Western Papers
During the day the train meets an east
bound at some way station, and fresn
supply is obtained. But the willy travel
ers have little or no faith in them. one
enterprising genius braves the Jeers OF
the wise and invests. In moment ne
has discovered some topic of universal
interest, when he can't keep to himse1.
In a minute the rest are all excited, ana
all make wild rush for the newspoy'
only to find that he has sold out az the
last station. -.
One more night and the attention IS
drawn to the subject of disemparkihs
at the destination. Some one starts
discussion as to- the size of Los Angeles.
A little town is passed, and they wonder
outlying towns and suburbs heave IN
sight. and even the tired sleepy ones SIT
up and take notice.
Mr. Previous grabs up all OF his nana
baggage and starts for the door.
hrakeman comes and tells him the tram
will stop only at the main stauon; pul
he means to be first to get on, ana noios
his place. Misled by his perseverance
several others line up and stand in the
ais1e ,,ntiI' the grips and satchels grow too
heavy to hold One by one they CONS
shamefaced back to their seats ana
worder at the interminable blocks OF
pretty homes.
Tben the beauty of the architecture
attracts them, so different from anythins
thev have ever seen except IN pictures
and they forget all about getting on,
Presently someone remarks Wnere ~
the world is that station; we shouiu ha'o
been there some time ago.
Marvel at Homes
NV wisdom insists that he knew az
tho time how large the city really 10, anu
the rest wonder If 1t is napit, o1 = n
is subject to such attacks. pe pis 90 .t
s',i, anu hioclxs and once more the brake
',ia u oives advice as to stopover tlckets.
MAJ 1s h,.iclx blocks and crowded Streets
" ny, ,'resently the stat.on is approached.
IN In the scramble for hand baggage they
fnreet to marvel at the busy air. but m
q vapue way each feels that the rail-
road company has handed him some-
tt;,e not on the bill of fare They have
ttei, money's worth-stiff joints and tired
ewes ewes insist that one has riding enough
for while.
Going uptown ina hack or on a car.
4bev see so much that they refuse 70
marvel any more, being surfeited win
new and strange sights At the noteIs
they go early to bed, protesting an .ne
while they are not tired and promislns
themselves ,.ley will do the town tne
next day.
Several next days are required ana
thew begin to see how model metropoiis
should be run, and write long letters
home telling az few Of the wonders they
have seen. and their friends are shocked
that these erstwhile models Of temperance
and decorum should fall off the water
wagon so soon after getting here
After the first new edge Is worn or
and fhey decide to settle here, they
wonder how they could have been SO
ignorant about such a thriving city, IN
SIX months they are old settlers, ready