The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
room in buildings to keep up with the
rapid expansion OF the postal business

rapid expansion OF the postal business
OF the city.
Not all of the tourists who come To
Los Angeles are rich people who can
afford to stay In the magnificent no.
tells with which the city Is plcntifully
provided. The great majority OF tht
visitors take furnished rooms The
Chamber or Commerce helps the visitor
to find place TO stay and II has on
L its list 10000 furnished rooms. No city
IN the country of the size has anything
like this number. and not even New
York can boast of q list or directory
which contains so many addresses OF
the kind. The Angeleno is always Will
| ing to help stranger. Any policeman
can direct one how 10 reach any adj
dress in the city by street ear-soms.
cities. or course. the cop is aided
by book he carries, but LOS Angeles
sees that he has the book.
The Los Angeles real estate agent is
in class by himself. The stranger
within the gates cannot escape HIM
He calls at the hotels. Let the stranger
declare that he Is only tourist that
he doesn't want to buy any property;
estate; that nothing on earth could
Induce him to become interested in
icorner lot. The real estate agent smil-
Iingly replies:
"Certainly. certainly; but l came
around just to take you for a drive
over the city. just to show you the
town"
1 From his tone one would think that
selling land was the last thing on
earth he would care to think about
The agent takes the stranger into
/ his motor car. He sweeps through the
well-paved streets. He points out the
lighting, and mentions that Los AnEe-
lies was the first American city to fol-
low the lead OF Paris in this particu-
liar. He indicates new office buildings
n mention
millions of dollars in connection With
each. He stops for minute on the
lcrest of an elevation and says: LOOK,
The stranger looks about. and as Tar
i as he can see in every direction there
Iare neat streets bordered with roses
and geraniums and thanked with rows
OF homes and bungalows of every con-
ceivable style OF architecture except
1.-THE square box effects of Eastern cities.
When the vision is all taken In the
lreal estate agent casually remarks that
four years ago there wasn't a house
in all that section Parks, clubs, pa
tlatial residences. avenues OF palms. long
rows of pepper trees, a profusion OF
ltropic flowers and maze Of beautiful
homes The real a estate agent 1, hasn. NJ
Twill. He knows that there Is a good
chance to sell some OF them, for that
lis exactly the way some forty or fifty
thousand people have been brought to
The city Of the Angels refuses point
blank to look at the hole It concen-
tratcs Its gaze upon the doughnut.
when the panic came last October. 1t
Init Los Angeles as it did every other
city But creditor wholesalers said
Ito debtor retailers:
'You mustn't fail We won't let you
8Ifall. We will give you more time. We,
must look out for the reputation of the
town"
i The booster spirit here penetratcs
leven into the region of the personal
|pocketbook. 1t Is a city of ideals.
Even a real estate agent, with his
ilmind on business, said:
i "Remember. Los Angeles can furnish
la geranium for every man, woman and
Ichild in the United States every day"
lHaskin)
o-morrow--orange and Progress,