Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-09
sunny SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
FAMED As ITALY Of AMERICA
Climatic and Other Ang Attractions and About City of Los
Angeles Are of Enhancing Interest to Visitors from
All Quarters of the Globe
BY FRANK WIGGINs

Los Angeles has more places of at
traction and more things to see thah
any other city of its size in the coun-
try. 1t Is so unlike eastern munich
palities in it's mingling of the OLD
world and new world ideas that it Is
the mecca of tens of thousands Oh
tourists every year.
The modern city is like many other
progressive, modern, wide awake
places but the old regime still stamps
itself upon certain sections of the city
and one may find Vestiges of the old
mission days when the padres min
istered to their flocks of Mexicans ana
Indians.
There Is a Chinatown here that
houses and feeds hundreds of Mongo-
lians. They have their own ways Of
doing business, their own restaurants,
banks, theaters, and joss houses Or
places of worship. There is ever an
aroma, not always grateful to Anglo
Saxon nostrils in Chinatown that is
inseparably connected with its queer
dingy alleys and winding lanes.
There are numerous beach resorts
within an hours ride from Los An
geles, over smooth roadbeds and in
luxurious electric cars, If one pre-
fers the mountains, there are lines
that take one to the foot of giant
peaks or transport the sightseer to
the top of one mountain more than
a mile high.
Theaters offer good bills each week,
even through the summer months.
During the coming convention there
will be q choice between high tragedy,
comedy, light opera and vaudeville.
Moving picture houses are scattered
through the downtown district. There
are two that are equipped as well as
the average theater.
Thousands of acres of orange groves
are within a comparatively short dis
tance OF Los Angeles While one must
go to Riverside, Redlands and there
abouts to see the largest and oldest
groves, there are several groves of
citrus fruit on the Oak Knoll line from
this city to Pasadena.
The population of Los Angeles is
close to 100000. 1t has grown from
small Mexican pueblo to its present
size by leaps and bounds. Every
traveller voices his admiration at the
way in which the city has accom-
plished things. 1t has gone several
hundred miles into the mountains for
q new water supply, and thousands of
men are working day and night in
bringing the great canal nearer the
city. When the owens river project
is completed there will be a water
supply for two million persons 1t will
also furnish energy for municipal
power plants, and this city will have
power to sell for manufacturing pur-
poses. There will be surplus water for
irrigating many thousands OF acres
in nearby valleys.
THE HARBOR AT SAN PEDRO
The harbor is one OF the attractions
of this city, as we'll as a port that will
attract the commerce of the world
within the next few years. 1t is not
vast in extent, but has anchorage
large enough for the navies of the
world. From the calm roadstead,
which is protected by long break
water, there is a channel which runs
far inland. The navigator is not afraid
of entering San Pedro by night in a
dense fog. It's entrance is easily seen
and there is no bar nor tumultuous
waters to confuse the pilot. The YES
sells sweep in much as they would in
the placid channel of some broad and
deep river.
San Pedro was once a separate city,
with its own government and manner
of doing things. When the consolida-
tion idea became firmly implanted in
the minds of our citizens, San Pedro
and her sister seaport, Wilmington,
were taken into Greater Los Angeles
San Pedro is reached by two steam