Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-08
OPEN CAMPAIGN
FOR GOOD ROADS
EAST SlDERS MEET TONIGHT
IN CONATY HALL
COUNTY ASSOCIATION WILL CON-
VENE SATURDAY
Hollywood and East Hollywood Push
Along Plan to Build Three
Hundred Miles of
Highways

The campaign to vote $3,500,O00 bond
issue for good roads on July 80 is well
started. and on Saturday morning at
Blanchard hall the Good Roads associ-
alton of Los Angeles county will meet.
In holding it's meeting tonight for the
discussion of the proposed bond issue
the East Side Improvement association
has especially invited workmen to come
to Conaty hall, Downey avenue and
Daily street, to hear the issues present.
ed and discussed.
This will be the first of a series of
meetings to discuss this issue, and it is
expected that the association Will eX-
press itself by resolutions. Gesner Will
liams viii make the address.
The meeting of the Good Roads asso-
citation announced for the chamber of
commerce, Saturday at 10 o'clock, will
be held in Blanchard hall instead, the
chamber not being large enough. The
association has more than $50 mem
bers, and as they will bring many
guests, it is expected that even Blan-
chard hall will be filed.
At this meeting the campaign for the
bonds throughout the county will be
formally inaugurated; the districts
will be assigned to committees, ana the
work will be thoroughly outlined. 1t
is expected that the labor of getting
out the vote will be more In the nature
OF a ratification than anything else.
But 1t is felt that a strong majority
will aid In the sale of the bonds, and
do much to inspire enthusiasm for good
roads generally, and it is the aim OF
the association to make the majority
as hugs as that which made Owens
river so popular a measure.
Hollywood In Line
Resolutions in favor of good roads
were adopted by Hollywood board OF
trade.
The construction of 3O7 miles of i'm
proved highways, connecting all cities
and towns of Los Angeles, and con-
Meeting with the proposed similar high
way improvements in the other coun--
ties of Southern California, will be OF
great benefit to Hollywood, the resolu-
tions state.
1t is pointed out that the improve
rnent of the Eagle Rock road will pro-
vide direct route from Pasadena and
points beyond to Hollywood, Beverly
hills. Soldiers home, Santa Monica,
Ocean Park and Venice, making Holly
wood a part of the scenic route from
the mountains to the sea"
In addition to these resolutions the
women's clubs of Hollywood are maxi
ing an active fight for the bonds, and
are using their ability to prove the
worth of highways and the deslrapln-
ity of this work Of construction.
Hollywood not only gets the scenic
route. but it is further benefited by the
Cahuenga pass road, through the pass
to Toluca, opening up the San Fernan-
do valley to direct connection with il
and Los Angeles, all of which trafnc
must pass through Hollywood. Also,
It will see the gap in Sunset boulevard
between it's own limits and those OF
Los Angeles, elosed-a series of mud
holes almost impossible in any KIND
of weather.
East Hollywood, Too
The East Hollywood improvement
association has called a meeting TO
discuss bonds for highways, at Hoe
gees hall, Vermont and Prospect ave
nues, on Friday night. At this meeting
residents of this neighborhood, which
lies between Los Angeles and Holly
wood, in the county proper, but is
thickly built up, will take strong action
favorinR the bond issue, as only
through such issue can 1t secure any
roads at all. The main stretch OF road
that serves East Hollywood Is the gap
between Sunset boulevard in Los An
geles and Prospect avenue IN Holly
wood, along the trolley line. This Is
and always has been a mere mudhole.
and is not now even on grade. II the
bond issue carries, 1t will be made
permanent rock roadway, at grade, and
will prove the main artery for traffic
between the two cities. Another ex-
tremely important road to this region
IS the extension of Vermont avenue, the
principal north and south highway,
from Los Angeles through East Holly
wood and on across the hills to Glen
dale, giving it a through road to the
san Fernando valley. This also can
only be improved by the county, al
though 1t is the main artery in East
Hollywood and built up all along its
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