Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-09
TOURISTS FLOCK
TO Los ANGELES
Securing Reservations by TeIe-
graph is Necessary at All
The Larger Hotels.
SEE GOLD THROUGH SANDS.
All the Important News of the Week
In The City of the Angels" and
Southern California.

Los Angeles. Feb. T.-Hotels here Of
| the better class are becoming so
crowded that regular patrons all over
the country have been warned by pro-
prietors and managers to telegraph in
| advance for reservations. AT many OF
the hotels proprietors say the rule viii
| have to be enforced at least another
| month and possibly longer.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
weather this winter here, and in fact.
| throughout southern California, has not
been by any means customary to this
section, nevertheless. plenty of bright
sunshiny days, accompanied by an
abundance of pure, mild air have been
sandwiched in between the rainy spells.
The actual rainy season Is rapidly APP
| preaching its end and after this month
| little or no rain win fall throughout
Southern California for another II
months.
Everywhere throughout southern
| California from Santa Barbara to san
| Diego the sweet perfume Of flowers
and semi-tropical plants and trees of
! every variety greet the tourists ana
| from now until late in June or July
| green verdure viii reign supreme.
TAXED TO THEIR CAPACITY.
1t is little wonder then that the win
| ter tourist is seeking the southern Cali
| fornia haven. That Los Angeles should
be the goal is likewise natural. for
The City of the Angels" is the metrop-
| oils of all southern California 1t IL
| little wonder then that the hotels are
being taxed to their utmost capacity.
At the Hollenbeck hotel most people
registering who do not notify by tele-
| graph have to wait for rooms. At the
| Angelus numbers have TO be turned
away, because of no single rooms, At
| both the Van Mugs and Westminster
| the demand is pressing.
The Alexandria lobby resembles a
theater vestibule between acts and the
Lankershim. Hayward and Rosslyn ho-
| tells are full to overlooking.
True. tourists can always find accom-
modations here at the half hundred
smaller hotels and myriads of lodging
| and rooming houses, and there Is no
real danger that any will have to stay
out of doors over night.
REFORMING BAD BOYS.
Prosecuting attorneys for the city
think that the Juvenile court, which
was established in the spring of 1905,
| has done much toward reforming bad
boys. They estimate that only about
| two-thirds as many boys have been ar
rested in the last year and half as
were locked up in the same period pre-
| ceding that time.
! A large body of local club women are
| attending the convention of the Cali
| fornia Federation of Womens clubs at
| Bakersfield, Cal. this week. The pro-
| gram is being carried out under direc-
| ton of Mrs. James b. Hume, OF Berke-
| ley Cal.
The convention opened yesterday and
will end tomorrow evening. The wo-
| men of Bakersfield clubs prepared a
number of pleasant affairs for the en-
tertainment OF their guests.
INVESTIGATORS RETURN.
w. B. Mathews. former city attorney
now advisory counsel for the city on
| Owens river water supply matters, and
j. b. Lippincott assistant engineer OF
| the Los Angeles aqueduct bureau, have
returned after having been in the east
| for six weeks.
Los Angeles Baptists are holding a
| series of mass meetings in the Temple
auditorium in the interest of greater
| progress for the denomination in south
| ern California.
Bishop Conaty has spiritual jurisdic-
| tion over about $4,000 people. This in
| formation, with other statistics, Is Civ
en- In the new official Catholic direc-
tory just being issued i'm Los Angeles.
The diocese of Los Angeles and Mon
terey has resident population OF
about 5000 Catholics, one bishop, I55
clergy and l22 churches.
KNOWS A GOOD THING.
Postmaster Flint of the Los Angeles
postoffice knows a $4,000 good thing
when he sees 1t, and has sent n chill
around the political circle by announc-
ing that his new duties as president OF
the Metropolitan Bank & Trust COM
pany would not interfere with his du-
ties as postmaster. His term as nost-
master expires March /, 1908. and ht
says he can stand the job until thai
time.
Jacob A. Riis, well known slum work.
err, ectured last night in the audi.
torium OF the Polytechnic high school
a large audience was in attendance
HIS subject was The Battle With the
slums, and ii was well lllust rated witt
stereopticon views. Mr.. Riis has de.
voted a large part OF his life TO III,
study of conditions among the poor Of
New York.
GOT ONE CENT DAMAGES.
Mrs. Nancy j. Pryor sued Edward d
McArdle for $1,000 damages for breach
OF promise, and has been awarded
cent by Judge Charles Monroe of IN,
superior court here.
II there were any smaller coin In tn,
realm said Judge Monroe. u would ii,
that as the amount of the damages
There has been a technical breaol
OF promise here" he said but ther,
has been no damage. This woman evil
IDENTIFY did not care whom she me,.ria,
so long as she married some one. Thor,
was no love or affection on either side
The defendant Is no good, ana the fao
that she did not get him Is no loss I,
her" ~
Members OF the Los Angeles stoel
exchange held their last session In IN,
Chamber OF Commerce. bi,ilding tss
Thursday, The following day the nov
exchange rooms In the I. w Hellmar