New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Bv SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

The voice Of its welcome shouting from thousand signs and
echoed in the columns Of every local Los Angeles
Adverses Itself of the local booster slogans 1t does
II adveses itself unmsakablc that he who
read and he who reads will if wisdom be him he who
stays read further that printed welter of exasgeaton i
fam and verbal which constitutes the bulk OF local adve
Using Ian escaped visitor characterized as the Anana
concerto for bass drums should ary buy charity and dis
believe what he if he would out pursewhoe Honor
upriehne.s and fair dealing in mercantile circles here OF
course But their almost lost in the cntorian chorus
Of fakes
NV first three hours here showed what Los Angeles is
from an advertising point of The succeeding days or IN
vestgation mainly conhmatoy Halt OF my preliminary
afternoon spent among the the other halt in reading
the days newspapers Thus the picture fully outlined not
wholly filled in. To give New Yorker adequate notion OF
what the shopping district of this city resembles dhcult But
Il one can imagine the Of Fourteenth Street and the
b section Of Fifth Avenue multiplied by and then scat
tered with podga hand the mercantile centre or Dig CITY
a fair idea of the layout may be gained. rhKeStei ""'
couldn't make living Los Angeles he never could nave eo'
even start against the local brand Of competition Here cheek
bv fowl with the standard department stores and the high class
I sbons flourish undubed in the teeth OF the law every
kind of fake and commercial trkey known to the unoe
world of trade Nnetyodd minutes OF casual exploration 'suo-
seouenty checked by detailed nvesgahon on the pest
shopping streets of the city furnished the following roe
Three fake jewelry auctions
One bunco book auction
Three closing SO cents the dollar CLOAK and suit
sales one of which had been constantly closing out tor two years
a Sale with superhuous syiaoieS 'oh-
fdence) offering $40 chairs tor S/oo' @2ooo 'ao'S " P
and other furniture to match
A Japanese art sale at less than wholesale prices
Sample Shop (clohng specializing in prehistoric styles
with magnificent claims of value
Tb.n "cbock" mems furnishing stores suitably window
baited. 80, -.
removal sale of pianos offering wonderful bargains IN
musical Junk revarnished and fake-stenciled
Our old friend the genuine Panama hat worth in this in
stance 5000 of anybodys money and made 'nauf'y'
Japanese paper, dear at $3.50
Auction sale of Magnificent Art COLLECTION from the
0t consisting mainly in OBJECTS de bunk from the wellknown
Oriental source known in New York East of the Bowery
Aob old friend the upstairs tailor with few choice
catchords about his downstairs competitor whom ne calls
Ground Floor Pirate the hope OF making his public oeheVe
that he selling SIS suits for SIS, which he ism t.
Still third familiar spirit from out the past the sample shoe
store in all sizes and prices less than halt their real value
Forv-odd window displays of value claims that would
send Bros shekng to the arithmetic tor more and hshc
hgu,es.
A sale Of marked down rancoas of the sieve and sponge
variety trading on of of national reputation
big fire sale of relics from the Ark puporing mendacious
IT, the stock from the fire which Quilted the Wooworh
& 10 and IS
Five haberdashcres selling with slight variations but all
the same pncpe) regular nekties marked 50
cents regular marked $25 and regular $500
silk shirts marked up $685. This slight reverse tngh on
The the window cards. but embodeS the actual
facts
One sale of guaranteed imported kmonos from lower Wash
ingon Street New York City he Tribune Bureau of nvesti
cations has duplicates in its museum OF takes)
An annerversary sale in which the entertans the
public by some of the imaginative fairy tales Of values that
have seen in print
And here there and everywhere seemed
were the keynote general advertising chorus the aretand
white reamers the painless dentists whose entoian claims
all but drowned out the agonized yes of the patients behind
them.
1t might possible but the newspapers worse
than the store advertisements For least the do
peril anybody health But the papers public If
there any Of filth fraud which vicious for
OF Los Angeles journalism should be glad learn
OF and give such credit due But scarcely hope hear
When newspapers accept such deadly matter knfecss
cures consumption and dgess healing for all diseases and
such filth gonorhea quakey and sexual oraves there is
no lower depth descend into Beside this their hnan-
a traps and their occult and fortune telling lures almost
innocent had expected find this anscontnena
vey any other local press degraded that of Atlanta Los
nlrnasm low level: fact little lower