New-York tribune., 1915-03-17
The eConning Touer
THE GRAND TOUR
Los ANGLER

Inc StatiticaI hguIe5 Jhat local boo.,s..
give you never have any real interey. /,
New York, frinst, somebody told me g.
in my freshman year, how much w.
Street ground was worth a front foo. :,
how many theatres there. were in !.
greater city. During the long night. :,
that first winter, when / didn't know A.,
body in the entire city, Diana used % e..
sole me. "Cheer up" she would g,
"Dont be 50 bored. Remember that v'
are in the biggest city in the COUNT,
where land is worth $1,000 an ina,
"True.' would reply, "and don't tor,
that. if we only had "a, we might sperSs
in any one Of % theatres"
Which is by way Of saying that Ia
Angeles has 100000 street cars, all =
them having all-night service, 5OO.OOO .
them running directly over the bed I,
Room 624 Of the Hote! Alexandra A.
100000 of them being equipped vi.
motormen who clang 100000 bells.
The first thing that happens in L
Angeles is that Charley Van Loan. d,
W. k. Fiction Slave, sends the Lady /,
Your Party an enormous shower bouq.,
Of violets. roses and fruits in season. 70
this courtesy. VIII .ch is accompanied byr
card. you essay. modestiy, TO take crss,
Yourself and hint that il doesn't amount
much. really; but you are ordered, in Z,
uncurtained tones, TO lay of the Walt,
Raleigh because you never sent lady 8
much as a mignonette in your life, K
alone send your wife what is probably L.
grandest collection Of rare and costly Aon
ever gathered in Southern California, tAs
Fertile Southland.
Next you ask Charley about his an
which he broke in an automobile aceis,.
four months ago-an accident he wa
lucky, they tell you down there. to corr
through alive. "Do ] look Ike a S0
man." he asks rhetorically. He wegti
about 29O, MS eye is clear, his voice is rs
onant as a hounds tooth and the tan G.
all-year golf is on him. For the benefit q
his readers and other friends, let It y
stated that he does not look ike Sci
man: and for their benefit also, that L,
arm may have to be broken again in ortg
to set it. He has hardly any use Of =
now-it is the left arm--eXcept 10 play .
one-fnger bass to his typewriting me!oty
But he plays golf one-handed. L bis g!
came is no better than it was when K
plaved with Grantland Rice and Huglg
Fullerton, the loss of the use of one an
cannot have hurt it much.
But he is gameness's fayorite son aSe-
the arm. The gate is strait and the SEN
charged with punishment, but he wEoa
not nor cries aloud. He writes coupe
of thousand words. plays two or ih'a
dozen holes of golf and absorbs n's
capable and nourishing meals 4 day I'D
drives mis- car-sometimes, rs when hs aa'
to come downtown for rube Eastern le.F
lists. through the Los Angeles traAc, ila,
which Fifth Avenue at its tiye-oclocG&
can offer nothing thanwhicher.
1t is over fine roads, past fine Z"
houses. through eight miles of widely ar
Justly advertised sunshine that he take
YOU to the Country Club. Unless you haR
been around a lot more than ! have, Il d
the finest and largest country club 20
ever saw. You have the best luneass
anybody ever had anywhere, especially ~
corn fritters that come with the ches-
and from the worlds finest porch, you 81
gazing the while at some mountains whoS
name you do not even care to know, i''1
the worlds largest glass, the chilled !uH
Of about dozen of the uniyerse's Juices
oranges.
And them says Charley, they ask n'
Why don't live in New York-why wal
70 live way out here in the bushes W
it's rotten out here, yea, kid. No gooc }.
all, hey? Why don't you quit work az
come out and write tiction?'
1t makes you wish you could.
The bigness and freeness OF the "''
may exist, as the boosters assure ne "
does. But it does not express itself % y
newspapers. The Coast papers believe ~'
murder and arson are wrong, ana %N'
times they are intrepid enough TO say y
but outside of those convictions they o'''
appear to be particularly bold. lN
porters and writer's are all strong io' -
Tribune and its attitude toward iaS -
yertising; the owners and most OF tne -
tors-I except the San Francisco D''
tins editor and, conspicuously, us ".
ness manager-tell you it cant oe w.,
and impugn The Tribune's motives Nv
Of the Coast papers are political organ
all | have seen are loaded with the sa''