Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-10
Los ANGELES NOW
UP WITH LEADERS
Census Report Shows This City
More Than TrebIeS in
Size in 10 Years
PASSES MANY PLACES IN RANK
Business and Commerce Keep
Step with Remarkable In
crease in Population
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that the census bureau at Washington
could hardly realize that this city
could leap ahead as she has in popu-
lation.
Il am highly gratif1ed at the show
ing which has been made. If anything
we did not get all the people that
were to be counted. They were COM
ing into the city in throngs to settle
| here, even while we were counting"
That the wonderful growth Of the
city will continue is the opinion of
many enthusiastic citizens who ex-
pressed themselves last night. Here
are some of their opinions:
c. c. Desmond, merchant-"To say
am delighted to learn Los Angeles
has population of 319l98 persons
would be putting it mildly. Yet it is
no surprise to me. During the twenty
years of my residence here I have
seen this city grow from a struggling
pueblo of 1000 persons to a metropolis
with a population of 319, 1893. The most
enthusiastic booster cannot presage
| that which is to come. Good intelli-
! gent advertising is responsible for
this growth, combined with the fact
that we can back up our statements
with facts Add to this that Los An
geles is geographically situated right
for the building of a mighty center
of trade and commerce and you have
the basis of her growth and prosperity.
Is TALK OF THE EAST
''The Angeleno who has travelled in
the east recently can appreciate Los
angeles position and prospects better
than the resident who has stayed at
home. During a recent trip to New
\ ork, Boston and throughout the New
England states, found Los Angeles
spoken in the Hobbies of the hotels,
rNVH fan e4t. ANe,, H. l..
lie buildings as if 1t were suburban
to these eastern cities. sl
Il repeat that good, intelligent,
legitimate advertising, as used by our
chamber of commerce, is responsible
in the main for the results we are OBJ
tanning from the congested centers of
the east. 1 visited the Los Angeles
exhibit on the famous boardwalk of
Atlantic City, where thousands upon
thousands of persons congregate, and
after seeing the interest and the curl
ostty aroused 1 am certainly more in
favor of these advertising bureaus than
ever before. To much credit cannot
be given our chamber of commerce"
J. NJ. Elliott, banker-"While we can
not expect as great growth in pro-
portion as to census figures in the next
ten years as we have had in the past
ten years, yet 1 believe that there will
be Just as great a percentage of actual
development, particularly in the estab-
liShment of industries. I believe that
in 1920, however, We will have doubled
our population, and that then our
boundaries will have become extended |
"There is a natural attraction here
that, with our civiv pride, our mex
haustible energy and go-aheadness, |
is contagious and affects all people. |
One of Los Angeles greatest drawing |
cards is the fact that we have here in |
q - I. l.
that come to Los Angeles and settle |
keep the mails heavy with all the good |
things they can say about the climate, !
the city and it's people, and the result |
of this voluntary advertising is that |
either their next-door neighbor back |
east or their relatives pack up their |
belongings and travel to Los Angeles" !
HAS EVERYTHING DESIRABLE
w. H. Holiday, banker-''We have |
3191 1913 persons in Los Angeles because |
this city has everything desirable on |
earth in the way of people, climate,
money, brains and enterprise. 1t is no
exaggeration in saying that Los An
geles has the cream of the United
States as to the best in citizenship. No
man on earth not even the most en-
thused and optimistic, can foretell
what our census figures will read ten
years from today"
blSuOD NOudIy- dul pltdS6u 10
hear Los Angeles has 319,198 persons"
w. D. Stephens, former mayor of
Los Angeles and congressman elect:
Certainly the census figures are most
gratifying. They are about what we
expected when the work of computing
them was begun. I do not know just
what rank Los Angeles will take among
the cities Of the country, but certain
ly we shall be within the first fifteen
and our great gain in the past decade {
should prove to congress that this city ;
is deserving of attention. / don't be-
lieve there is any stopping us. We
will have million population by 1926"
Harry LoOmis, co-partner with his
brother, c. c. Loomis, in the Angelus
hotel at doesn't surprise me one little
bit. 1 fully expected it would be that :
large, for in a place like this one has
q good chance to judge the influx Of
which go to swell the CEN
sus results. ] really stated sometime
ago that 1t would be as large as it is.
And they will keep coming. Why,
right now, I venture to say there are
800, 900 permanently residing in Los An
geles. If the census was taken again
it would show that many
residents. That is the rate at which
they come in"
Harry Fryman, proprietor Hayward
hotel: every good, very good, that's
the best news I have heard in a long
time. Now. let's see, the floating pop
llation of Los Angeles will bring that
up to at least 100000 in round num-
bers. Yes, I believe $4,000 is a very
estimate of the floating
population of Los Angeles, And it is
mighty gratifying to me for l have
been here since the time when we set
80, 900 people as the mark for which
to strive and it wasn't so long ago,
either"
WHAT A VISITOR SAYS
The Rev. Madison c. Peters. dis
ingulshed visitor: wonderful, Won
1erful! Yet no more wonderful than
lther things in this beautiful city.
Still when it is analyzed, such a mar
yeloust growth is not so wonderful.
{ would have been many times great
,r if the people of east-the SNUG, self
residents Of the east, could
,nly be made to realize the magnif-
'ence, the grandeur and idealness of
he climatic conditions here. They
ould not be kept away If they but
NEW The trouble is they cannot be
made to realize what they are missing
1.-THE census returns show gain of
over 100000 in the past ten
ears. 1t is almost unbelievable, yet
N every side of us can be seen the