Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BIC TOY FACTORY
COMING OUR WAY
Eastern Financial Interests Are
Alive to Advantages of
Los Angeles
GREATER PUBLICITY URGED
New Line of industries to Pro-
vide Employment for
Workers of All Ages
BY JOHN YOUNG

The Los Angeles way of doing things
is what has astonished and chained
the interest of the investors and big
manufacturers of the Atlantic seaboard
section for years. They marvel at the
tremendous growth Of the city in popu-
lation and building activity. and when
they come TO the coast and observe the
activity displayed in the line of indus
tries many of them are influenced to
get into the game and acquire some of
the financial results.
Frank Virgins, secretary of the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce, recently
returned from his annual trip to New
York and Atlantic where the chamber
maintains a permanent exhibit on the
Boaro Walk While in various cities en-
route hume Secretary Virgins discov-
cred more than the usual interest pre-
vailing among mon of means with
special reference to the industrial life
of Los Angeles and the coast cities.
People of the east are well informed
as to the progress Los Angeles has
made in the past ten years. chiefly
lllG pIdCllCSLl pQDiiCAty WI IA
made by the various newspapers of the
city, by the splendid system followed
year after year by the chamber of COM
merce and by the various railroad lines.
Investors have long been impressed
with the opportunities offered in South
ern California for profitable investment
Of funds, and since an abundance or
water is assured for irrigation and
power for factories of every description
by the completion of the owens river
auueduct, with the added feature of
cheap fuel from the extensive crude oil
districts and the early opening of the
Panama canal, big moneyed interests of
the far east are hustling as never be
fore to get here speedily on the ground
floor. to carry forward the varied large
enterprises which are to make Los An
geles gre Sater than ever and which VIII
provide increased lucrative employ
nent for the tens of thousands of peo-
pie who are to flock to this favored
section to enjoy the Incompatible eli
mate and become independent as work
ers in the multiplicity of avocations
open to them
Approximately 1900 to 1000 different
manufacturing enterprises are estab-
lished in Los Angeles, and from 15,OOO
TO II 900 people are employed in the in
uuSlIiSS, sc Gllu olhoIis
LIVE WIRE BOOSTER
Secretary Virgins has always been
ar earnest booster for the greater de-
velopment of the industrial enterprises
of the city contending for a more lib
eral spirit displayed in the line of offer
ing inducements to big concerns to 10
cate in the Industrial district. High
figures for sites should be eliminated
and where possible free sites should be
held out as inducements. 1t is not i'm
portant that all of the factories should
be located within the city limits of Los
Angeles 1t is understood that even
now several big factory firms are 1lgur-
ing or locating on Los Angeles har-
Dor at San Pedro, and also at Whining
ton, Long Beach and Redondo BEACH.
one of the corporations alluded to is
engaged in the manufacture OF toys or
every description, and this company
may locate at some desirable coast
town. provided suitable terms for site
can be secured. Such an industry
would provide employment not only for
hundreds of vigorous young men and
women, but also light work for men
past middle life. Such factories exist
in the eastern cities and are similar
to those in operation in Germany and
other countries, where thousands OF
elderly people, adopts at the work or
designing and making toys, are en-
ployed.
Wise members of the strong civic or
canizations of Los Angeles sense the
culture correctly. They are strong for
greater publicity work in all sections
of the world for the further develop
mont of Los Angeles and Southern
California, and they arc also solidly
handed together to increase the num-
bor of manufacturing enterprises of
the city and the adjacent towns. where
there may be developed permanent and
fixed industrial habits, with profit for
the people and less play in the metrop-
olie of the 81 inland country.