davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Total Observation-Disclosures 's1,475,o4s,4s

The building record for 1910 has
eclipsed all former figures. 1t is esti-
mated that during the present year
more than 11,000 permits were issued
for improvements valued at $21 ,125 900.
Figures in detail are given on an
other page of this issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Memories of Building Homes so Years Ago

e0-foot lots on the northeast corner of
Second and Fort (noW Broadway. ii.
DoCkweiler built a two-story brick on
the southwest corner of Fort and First,
and L. H. Titus built four residences
on the grounds now occupied by the
city hall. Still later in the '70's the
river had been crossed" and Hancock
Johnston had transformed a portion of
DR.. Griffins sheep ranch into East Los
Angeles and Billy" Workman had
created Boyle Heights, and new and
pretty homes with all modern improve
ments were soon dotting those pictur-
esque additions far and near For nearly
half a century Judge Joseph s. NAL
lard, eX-Mayor John B. Nichols, ex-
Mayor Toberman. Col. Isaac r. Dunk
elberger, n. X. w. Burt and two other
men, named Cummings and Kennedy,
owned 35 acre lots out of tOwn"-upon
which they produced grapes and vege-
tables and all the varieties of semi
tropical and other fruits-bounded by
what is now FiguerOa and Burlington
Seventh and Tenth streets. These men
resided in cottages and veritahly lived
under their own vines and fig trees
But. at last, Mallard and Nichols built
modern residences. Osting not less than
five or six thousand dollars each, and
Dunkelberger in 1882, ornamented his
tract with a sixteen thousand dollar
home. the completest and most mod
ern in many respects in Los Angeles
at that time.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

View of New Sky Line in the Business District
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BANK POST CARDS SOON
TO BE PUT IN CIRCULATION

Director Ralph of the bureau of en-
craving and printing has submitted to
Postmaster General Hitchcock a sam
pie proof Of the deposit cards for
postal savings banks. The expectation
is that Mr. Hitchcock will approve the
design of the card as it stands, several
conferences having been held between
officials of his department and Direc-
tor Ralph before the work was begun.
The fifty experimental postal savings
banks will be opened January 1, unless
present plans are changed. A large
supply of the deposit cards must be
printed meanwhile and distributed to
the fifty postoffices that have been
selected The deposit card is about
four inches long and two inches wide.
On the border is an engraved design,
similar to those on United States
paper money or securities. This en-
craving, with which the public is so
familiar, gives the card the appearance
of hard cash. Across the top of the
card are the words, Omitted States
Postal Savings Banks" This followed
by the statement that the card with
nine 10-cent postal savings stamps will
be accepted at any postal savings de-
pository as 81.
In the center of the card are ten
spaces. The first has an engraved
stamp printed on it, which represents
the initial deposit of 10 cents with
which the card is to be purchased.
When the nine additional stamps have
been placed upon the card it will be
exchanged for certificate of deposit,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

were erected, conspicuously a brick
dwelling by Ex-Governor John G. Dow
ney, on the west side of Main street,
near Third-which, by the way, was
taken down only few years ago. cap
tain George j. Clark, then postmaster.
built a home "out as far as what Is
now the southwestern corner of Broad
way and Fourth. John Jones made
himself a very attractive home on the
northwest corner of Main and Fifth,
about the same time, and soon after
ward O. w. Childs, Elijah Workman.
j. NJ Riley and Joseph Huber built
pretentious residences Qor that day)
further out Main. From 1870 to 1875
there took place quite a residential
epidemic, during which time Colonel
James G.. Howard built nine thousand
dollar residence on G lot now occupied
by the Van Nuys hotel, and Isaias w.
Hellman created fine home at cost
of twelve thousand dollars, which was
removed not long since to make room
for the new structure of the Farmers
& Merchants bank. On the southwest
corner of Fort (noW Broadway and
Second Judge il. K. OMelveny Gin
1870, built fourteen thousand dollar
residence which every one admired, but
regretted that it was so far out of
town; this home of O'MelVeny's was
removed only a few years ago to make
room for the American National bank.
This started a building boom on Fort
street, and Harris Newmark built
himself a ten thousand dollar home
where now is Blanchard hall. Eugene
Meyer erected a similar home on the 100
foot lot Immediately south. and Major
Ben G.. Truman built himself a four
thousand dollar home three blocks fur
ther south on Fort street, near Sixth;
and in few months afterWard Clem
Goodwin built n six thousand dollar
residence next to Truman, toward Sixth,
About this time Herman w. Hellman
built a home near the northeast cor
ner of Spring and Fourth, now occu-
pied by the imposing structure that per-
petuates Mr.. Hellman's name. Capt. c.
r. Thorn built a twelve thousand dollar
residence in the center of 120 foot
lot on the southeast corner of Third
and Main. w Fl. Perry built a fine
home on Figueroa near Sixth, and
Judge Hubbell anG Major Toberman
built pretentious residences on lots ad-
jacent. Henry Hazard made a pretty
home on Spring street, neal Third, and
Tom Temple buiir on Third, near
Spring, on the lot now occupied by the
Currier block. About this time there
came from Syracuse, N. Y, a retired
merchant tailor, who purchased a So
acre lot (Hancock's survey on Fig
ueroa beyond twentieth street ana set
it out with palms and other trees and
built what was for a long time the cost
liest and stateliest residence in Los An
geles this house is still standing. but
the SO acres which Mr.. Longstreet,
the retired tailor, paid $25O0 for are now
worth a quarter OF a million. Among
others who erected costly homes away
out on Figueroa," were Judge Marshall
and Judge Murray Morrison. A little
later in the 70's Isaias Hellman built
three handsome residences on the three
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BRIEFS AT RANDOM

A healthy horse eats nine times its
weight in food each year, healthy
sheep six times.
Rancid butter, inclosed in shells of
cheese, is used for lamps in some por-
tions of Italy
There are $1,000 locomotives in the
United States, burning yearly $4,000, 900
tons of coal.
An English company has been or
ganized to develop and exploit the Pc
troleum fields of Morocco.
The percentage of infant mortality
in the city of New York last year was
the highest on record.
In a new London club almost every
thing is done by electricity, even the
walters being electrical.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
GREAT IS Los ANGELES
IN POPULATION GROWTH
Marvellous Changes in Commerce
and Building Within the
Past Ten Years

Speaking of the remarkable progress
Los Angeles has made along the lines
of population and development, the
Coast Banker of San Francisco says
"The census returns show that Los
Angeles has $4,000 of population. but
private reports received from the
southern metropolis indicate that the
census report does not do justice TO
that CITY, as it has been found that
many residents were not enumerated
and that in many instances the enum-
Grafton was done very carelessly, but
3190 900 is a great many, and as 1t is zoo
per cent increase over 1900 Los Angeles
people are not making any cry over
the neglect of enumerators.
ut is very gratifying indeed that the
southern city has as much population
as she has, and 1t is also gratifying
to realize that the growth is continu-
ing and in a greater ratio than OBJ
tained during the last ten years. This
means that Los Angeles ten years
from now will have not only over half
a million population, but probably a
million Not only will the city have
this great population, but Southern
California, which is tributary to Los
Angeles and of which Los Angeles is
the heart, lungs and soul, is also grow
ing in a similar manner. When one
starts to think of the fact that Los
Angeles and Southern California ten
years ago had one-third of their pres
ent population a sense of wonder de-
velops and correlative thought comes
as to why this growth has obtained
The answer is, of course, we'll known
to people of the Pacific coast. 1t is in
part that Southern California has a
climate which appeals to the people of
the east more than any other climate
in the world. One eastern man eX-
pressed it at the recent American
Bankers convention in Los Angeles:
L have found the climate where life is
really worth living Many persons feel
that way, and many more are going to
feel that way. And Los Angeles, in
addition to it's wonderful climate, has
some of the ablest business men in the
country, and to their energetic efforts
is, in a great measure, due the growth
of the city. Acting through their
chamber of commerce, their board of
trade and similar organizations, as
we'll as in their individual capacities,
the men of Los Angeles have built up
a business city as well as a resident
city, which eventually will be one Of
the great municipalities of the world.
"All praise to Los Angeles and her
men and women. We all hope she will
have one million population in 1920"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

In pueblo to the city a local writer
recalls interesting facts in reference to
the earliest pretentious homes built in
Los Angeles, as follows:
There is no other one thing that en-
cages the admiration of all visitors in
Los Angeles so rapturously as the thou
sands of magnificent homes of tens of
thousands of it's inhabitants-many of
which have seemingly come almost by
magic during the past decade and a
half, particularly on Adams, Figueroa,
Flower and Washington streets. in the
Westlake and Hoover street districts
and Grand avenue.
And this is all the more engaging
when one is informed that Los Angeles
was only an adobe town forty years
ago, with only five or six brick resi-
dences and less than hundred wooden
ones-all inhabitants with the eXcep-
ton of those in Sonoratown and a score
or two others) residing on Main street
above Third, on Also, Alameda, San
Pedro and Los Angeles streets.
ITO be sure. many of the adobe
houses were quite inviting, with their
whitewashed walls, outside and in and
with their patios often enlivened by
palms and towering plants. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jones resided in one such
on the north side of the Plaza. Mr.
Morenhaut, the French consul, occu-
pied, with a son and daughter, a pre-
tentious adobe, with six large rooms,
on the east side of Main. between Court
and First, and on the opposite side of
the street there lived, in spacious ado
bes, Joseph S. Mallard and his large
family; Capt. and Mrs. Cameron, e.
Thorn, John G. Nichols and his large
family, the Rabbi Newmark and his
wife and one son and four daughters
Mrs. Hoyt and her daughter (the latter
the first school teacher in Los Angeles),
and Mrs. Workman, the mother of
Uncle Billy and Lige.' Wallace Wood
worth and family occupied preten-
tious adobe on San Pedro street, when
Mrs. Jesurini Ohen the beautiful wild
ow Carlisle) also lived in one of the
most comfortable adobe homes in the
city. DR.. and Mrs. Hall also had
comfortable adobe abode on San Pedro
street, surrounded by thousands of or
ange and lemon and walnut trees and
vines. One of the most spacious and
comfortable of all the adobe residences
half a century ago was the home of
Don Abel StearnS and his very hand
some and statuesque wife (now Mrs
Arcadia B. de Baker,, on the south
west corner of Arcadia and Main,
where the Baker block now stands
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Childs lived in a
spacious adobe a mile south of the old
court house on Main, and had the Bris-
walters, the Morrlsses. the Wolfskills
and others of the old families as not
distant neighbors. w. II. Perry, Ben
Eaton, Dr. Foster. oscar Macy, Tom
mie Rowan, the Hubers and many 9TH
ers found much comfort in the OLD
'dobies of half a century ago
During the late sos, however, a
number of quite pIetentious residences
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
papers (and this is only one in hun

papers (and this is only one in hun
dred):
1T was one of the most successful
meetings ever held. The attendance
at the grand lodge was above the aver
age and general attenuance crowde the
100000 mark. Los Angeles lodge and
the citizens made good in every detail
of entertainment. The program for
the week was the most elaborate ever
undertaken and was carried out i'll
every item. The executive committee,
headed by Hon. NJ. H. Flint, is entitled
to unstinted compliment for a wonder
full week of new and novel entertain
ment. While the city was crowded, yet
there was room and good accommoda-
tions for all. Every lodge and every
member of the order along the coast
from Seattle to San Diego were on the
reception committees, and the true
western hospitality and enthusiasm
was manifest at every turn. The deco
rations were the finest and in the best
taste we have ever enjoyed.
THE electrical parade and the floral
and inc, "al parade were sights new
er to be forgotten and far surpassed
anything ever offered us. But above
and beyond all form of entertainment,
hat pleased most was the warmth OF
welcome that manifested itself from
the het- IS of the people OF Los An
gelo- and neishboring towns. They
made us glad to be among them and
regret to leave. The parade of the
Elks on Wednesday. which was not as
!; ~ge as some - have had, was in
many respects the most unique and
entertaining we have ever had and
was witnessed by hundreds of thou
sands of people.
And here is what Garry Hermann
said after his return to Cincinnati:
our treatment in Los Angeles was
the ,,es' we have ever known. The
oople that lovely city went out of
their way a thousand miles to make us
wei, me. They gave us everything
we could ask for and we would not
have had to sleep a minute through
out the time we were there had not
nature demanded it. Especially We're
they very kind to the ladies of the
,arty The Los Angeles women
gave them a hospitable welcome and
enough entertainment to last a month";"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BACHELORS REFLECTIONS

The only way man can cut another
out with a girl is for her to do it.
Where there's will there's a way
for the heirs to spend what it leaves.
IF you don't tell a vain man he isn't,
he'll tell you, so you might as we'll
The only man who believes in luck
is the one who has things against him;
the fellow who has them with him is
sure his brains did 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BE A BOOSTER

Do you know there's lots O. people
Settin round in every town,
Growlin' like a broody chicken,
Knockin' every good thing down?
Don't you be that kind O. cattle.
Cause they amt no use on EARTH
You lust be a booster rooster.
Grow and boost for all you're worth.
IT, your town needs boostin'. booster,
DON'T hold back to wait and SEQ
II some other fellers willin'-
Sail right in, this country's free;
No ones got a mortgage on 1t,
It's just yours as much as his.
n your town is shy on boosters,
You Just get in the booster biz.
II things don't just seem to suit you,
And the world seems kind o. wrong,
what's the matter with boostin'
Just to help the thing along?
,cause II things should stop a-goin'
M we'd be in a sorry plight
You Just keep that horn a-blowin',
Boost her up with all your might.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Total for 1910 (estimated) sS11, ,919, 1894
YEAR 1909
.....................$s73.165,79s.S1 165,
19OO-1eOs
POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS

Due to the fact that Los Angeles has
grown from a population of 1000 in
1866 to q metropolis &C 319,19S in 1910.
the United States government has
erected a large postoffice building at a
cost of more than 81, 100000. 1t is a solid
structure of five stories and is the
main office. Many sub-stations are re-
quired in outlying districts, with Post
master Harrison and Assistant Dish
man in general charge. Following are
Los Angeles postoffice receipts by
months for the past two years, which
also indicate the rapid growth of the
citV.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BANK CLEAR|NGS
SMASH RECORDS
Figures from 1900 to Date.
1909 and 1910 in
Detail
GREAT BUSINESS EXPANSION
Commercial and Industrial En-
terprises More Prosper
GUS Than Ever

In making a summary of the
growth of commercial and other bust
ness enterprises i'm Los Angeles it Is
q gratifying feature of the review to
allude to the wonderful expansion of
commercial transactions as reflected in
the bank clearings.
The clearings of the Los Angeles
banking institutions, all of which are
in excellent condition, indicate better
than any other manner the property
of the city, and with the bounding in
crease in clearings from 1900 to 1910
the most casual observer must realize
that Los Angeles has jumped to the
front rapidly in all lines Of business
enterprises.
The clearings for 1900 were $122, ,692,-
555.55; for 1905, five years later, $47S,-
985,29S.4O; for 1910, estimated, $S11, ,919,-
169.4S.
Following are the clearings by
months for the past two years:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Marvellous Expansion of Southern Metropolis in Business
How Los Angeles Grows

BUILDING VALUATION 1910 $21,125,O0O.
IMPROVEMENTS MULTIPLY BY THE MILE
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07
OSCARS STORY OF DOT SLEEPLESS BEAUTY
ny FRED scAAEFER.

Veli. chiltren. OF an der stories
/ haf listened. dot won aboutd der
Sleenleas Beauty annoyed me dor
ieaad
Look yonco ad your poor onkel.
Adolf. vile he ias sutforance nit a
oforioae OF soodlng strip, Den ask
me. lisa lnsomonla punishment
Listen Vonce der waaa a print.
sesa. She waaa baby printreas.
und for dot rrreaaou dey hat tn
haf a christening. und after der
christening a Dutch lunch for der
guaata.
Deere Waas presence. among cd
ders aoien fairy gottmuitera vleh
hat been invltAtioned und Won
altc Hex Of a fairy goitmutter vich
hat nod been invitationed hacowa
she wass haoknumhcr una ate
her soup mit a sponge lind be-
sites. she shocked der company by
coming init a fried onion poultice
tied % her face 20 cure curaehc
Veil. all der fashion plate fairs
s0ttmUttera gafu der printscaa All.
fer Fattles uud golt teeting rings
und diAmont nurnlns boddlea und
tuherculln teatet infancy food for
gifts. und dot fiddle dazzling cooed
away - happy as Chmne bug. all
der vile sucking a piece OF bacon
rlud vich waaa tied NIT string 80
"a coulg nod get lont insite nut
der oh Hex al a fairy sottmutter
she was sorrneHa heensa ahe hat 10
be presence mifould being invita-
toned so she Eafo her prinfrena
yust fifteen years 20 do her sleep
los la-und after dot sleep voult
leafe her unmoleatst
Esrrypody tot dis waas a funny
choke. especially as her faddur
Walked der royal ilBoleam carrying
her aearly efery nlght mit heg
collie. But ven der printxess sass
IS years olt abs trafeled aomevore
in an upper bert After dot she
yoult sit up night after night ~.
pcadlnH der name ~ der car und
wondering we're on cart dey got =
name like dot. Efsryding sass
useless She vouit nod 80 70
sleep Dey efen tried reading hor
der pFe@idend's message. but she
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07
Astounding News BY Express Via
Norfolk"
CLOSE TO IT.

Donald had returned from n visit
to the country. and was fun OF
"reminiscences Of persons and
things that had Interested him
u met a boy, mamma" he said,
that had the queerost name ever
heard lie said bis folks found n
IN the old Testament u visit
was--let me Bee-yea, " was Faith.
or William or william Father. I've
forgotten Just now which But Il
was one or the other"
'But. Donald" said hiB mother,
there ~ no such name as Father
William or William Father In the
Old Testament"
Are you sure, mammal"
Il certainly am. dear / have
read It through several times.
William is n comparatively mod.
.ern name. It isn't anywhere In the
Bible"
Well but. oh. | remember
|nowl" exclaimed Donald. 1T was
Biidad f"--Tlt Bits.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07

Hello. PEiEhtsyes." he said. ~dit
fou know all your night vatchmen
iaa asloepf"
sure. answered der prlutEeHs.
hnatsieasly taxing her hair esat Of
curl babers ID isa DER snoring
sich kept me awake for der last cen.
fury
Ind 70 dey vaas married und iifed
happy ofer after. becoAs der print.
xeEh began making up Lost dime und
doilfsred no curtain LECTURES, BE
sites. she fount ouid yere dey got
dot Pullman car label Ia waas der
Prints mitiie name.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07

ooult nod be exoneratet NIT der
sleeping sickness.
More In sadness dan in noFrow
deY put her All alone Ia a castle
mite tonsang night watehmen. 20
ntay ders Won hundred years After
dot abe coElt star Ia Rip Van VIA
kie. II She Wished
OF course. dere ina . handsome
prints mixed an IN dlss he wana
due 90 arrife after ID wAas all offer
Vonce efery sixty or a~fenty years
der priatEeas yawned Noult he
meter camel NOBODY knows why
he waited. bat finally Ne dropped IN
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07
ra,or- Tnansfuily Received.

ITO was charitably Inclined aud cv-
cry night for more than "a week he
pitied the old man whom he met
atHndinE IN the doorway % down o.
town office building The FIRST
night IL was very cold. SO he asked
tie old man N ho wouldn't like a
drink 90 warm him up. They had
their drinks. and the charitAhiy
Inclined person gave the old man 60
cents 90 buy q niEhtH lodging The
ola man thanked him heartily
Last week the charitable chap
gave the Oldham An u ergnal. and
told him If he neesiati-ilSii A-Asa.al ftssss
around 90 his wall street office.
Finally the honefactor asked the old
man who he was. Why didn't he
get a i0bT
q, I'm the night Waterman IN this
huliding" was the reply. n stand
outside 10 got the fresh air"
Now when the charitable person
Now York Sun
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07

The rush for the sole paper
which had the news" says Edgar
Allen Poe. originator Of the hoax.
was something beyond even the
prodigiOua"
For days and weeks this wonder.
ful trip Was the one topic of con.
verHatlon. and u was only when
people began recalling the moon
hoax. also perpetfaled by the Sun.
that they realized they had been
caught" again.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07
JoHSNIE's ntrE

Johnnie. come In 90 diuuer3"
Mra slater stood az the door or
her cottage. looking over toward a
small boy who was flahlnG with
bent pin and = harrinH bone on the
brim Of puddle
John nfe-a dinner"
stHl the boy went on fishing
"IohnniHf
No answer
"Tf tnu don't come IA 70 dinner at
once my son, threatened Mrs
slater n won't give you any at Ailf
only = sudden tension ~ The small
boys frame as Do EaEcd eagerly into
tho depths 81 the murkY puddle.
Mrs Skaters patience was az an
end silently. she cfept up behind
the delinquent. and then, suddenly
HalNiua him by the shoulders, shook
him Violently Go sua fro
you hratM she cried "Uldn't you
hear me callY"
Ono ma. replied tie YoungHter.
Htoutly. 4 didn't hear YOU the first
three times. and the last time ! had
q bito"- Dundee Advertiser
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07

r. cO-wOrker who asked N u were
true. ag rumOr had BE-. that the 1000
person was about 10 merry.
~ iHt was the lacoulo response
surely old man" said the other.
with That freedom permitted an init
mate triend you don't think that
your present income would msflfv
you in taking r. wife"
To be perfectly frank" said the
other = do not
Then what on earth can be your
reason fof t1kinE this serious strpY
- have no reason" was the calm
feuponHo. ~ am IN love "--Lippin-
eoftfa Magazine
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-07
MINr nrIrs MIrn wnnI,.

n "a sald that when Sir Andrew
Clark Mr. gladatOue'a physician.
recommended patient 90 drink
wine the latter expressed some sur
prise. saying he thought Air Andrew
WHs "a temperance doctor 20 which
nlF Andrew Clark replied 20. wine
does Sometimes help you % get
through work for Instance. I have
often 20 letters "a answer after din
ner and q pint 81 champagne is a
great help"
Indeed" said the patient, does
n pint ~ champagne really holp 20
answer the 20 iettersT'
"NO no" said sir Andrew, but
when I've had pint 81 ehampa xne
i don't care q rap whether I answer
them or n0tf'--f london Press