Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-01-17
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Peoples Forum
What an Ashlander Thinks Of Los
Angeles.
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(By H. G. Gilmore.)

(By H. G. Gilmore.)
The man VINO travels from Los An
geles to Ashland with both eyes open,
over the splendidly conducted South
ern Pacific railroad, may not only
pick up many useful stray thought,
but be confronted with endless shift
] ing scenes unfolding the wonders of
Dame Nature in a fashion that can
hardly fail to impress the everent
mind with the infinity and awful
grandeur $50 to speak, Of Gods ere
ated world. The train service in its
well nigh perfection is no small won
der, in itself as it now exists, and
with safety placed always before
celerity, little more can be expected
of a system that so readily has trans
formed Pullman parlor car into fur
nishing to the traveller all the COM
forts and facilities of a first-class
drawing room.
Ashlanders are such frequent visit
ors over the "Sisskoos" and to the
southland to the other side, that l
proceed to deal at once with Los An
geles, the city now boasting a popula-
ton of nearly half a million people
and which superb supply of light,
sunshine and the absence of anything
like an undue precipitation of the
Tquid element-all coming under the
designation Of CLIMATE, and paint
ed in the biggest letters known to the
printing arts, indeed, in many
particulars, wonder Of wonders.
Just now it is suffering little jolt
from the fact that the tourist crop is
of lesser dimensions compared with
that of last year; rents have gone
down" 25 per cent, all building
projects are at a standstill, the army
of the unemployed was never as large,
and a visit from that relentless en-
emy, la grippe, has for many weeks
past laid low 60 per cent, at least, of
the city's tourists, of which, unfor-
tunately, / was one of the suffering
martyrs.
The moneyed men of the east and
middle west must have had an over
weening estimate of what Los An
geles was bound to stand for to in
duce them to part with their hard
cash in bringing into existence a
community Of interests resulting in
the creation of such magnificent
thoroughfares, with shops and stores
fitted with the costliest of goods to
be found only in the strictly up-to-
date emporiums Of New York, Bos-
ton, Chicago and other eastern and
middle west cities. The pedestrian
who leisurely wends his way along
Hill, Olive, Broadway, Spring, Main
and Los Angeles streets may for a
moment well imagine himself to be
parading the great worldwide centers
of this continent and Europe, and
stand amazed that CLIMATE-just
happy combination of light, sun
shine and genial weather-could
bring about such miraculous results.
Los Angeles is in no sense a man
ufacturing city, but being the center
of the ranch interests of the citron,
the orange, lemon, walnut, olive and
kindred productions, and hemmed in,
as it is, by endless up-to-date truck
farms, it is no wonder that these
various interests should make Los
Angeles banks the custodians Of
many millions Of well-earned dollars
every year.
Los Angeles is encircled, too, by
numerous smaller communities and
Pasadena, which in sheer wealth and
the ability to provide itself with autos
ad libitum has hardly another city on
the continent capable of outshining
it in these particulars.
Long Beach is an attractive little
city "by the sea-" and it was here I
met (and with a decidedly hearty
welcome) Mr.. and Mrs. Whitmore
and Mr., Mrs. and Miss Finley.
II should be noted that It was in