Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-04-21

Ddn ana lnter-urDan, In the world !,
over 500 miles city lines and 100
miles of inter-urban lines, extending
as far as 70 miles distant. They
employ about 1900 men and the pay
roll is close to one million dollars
annually.
There are rs public parks, cover
ing over 1000 acres. Griffith Park,
the larger, with 5000 acres, is the
second largest park in the country.
Exposition Park, twenty-five min
utes from Broadway, reached by ten
car lines and surrounded by paved
boulevards, has a 40-acre athletic
! field, but the chief features of the
park is the three buildings costing a
quarter million dollars each.
This park is estimated to be worth
SO, 100000.
Los Angeles has eleven public
! play grounds and IS vacation and
summer centers, with free lectures
and entertainments during the sea-
son.
They say a tourist can breakfast
by the sea shore, take dip, lunch
| in the orange groves, and dine in the
snow fields of the Sierras.,
They have only two seasons here
! wet and dry. The rainy season is
the most pleasant time of the year.
q The nights are always cool and blan-
kets are very comfortable. In 35
years the record shows only II times
did the thermometer go down to 80
degrees above zero, and the lowest
was 2S degrees, or four below freez-
ing, and only 20 days in 35 years
did it reach 100 degrees, or less than
one day year.
Los Angeles has a wonderful har-
| Dor, and in 1920 they exported to
foreign countries products worth 20
millions, and imported nearly 10
million dollars worth. They have
spent 10 million improving this har-
Dor and the government spent about
3 " million on the breakwater and
dredging the inner harbor, making
Fl miles of frontage, and it ranks
with the great harbors of the world.
They have direct water communi-
cations with New York and Seattle,
and various European ports through
the Panama canal and the Orient.
On the bluff above the harbor they
have an extensive system of fortifi-
cation looking out oversize ocean.
Los Angeles imports more lumber
than any port in the world, and the
inner harbor at San Pedro and WI
mington is lines with huge lumber
yards, warehouses, factories, ship
yards and canneries, and employ
great bunch of men.
Los Angeles has many beautiful
theatres, the Temple Auditorium be-
ing the largest reinforced concrete
structure of it's kind, with three sep
arate auditoriums, the largest seat
ing $500 people, and is absolutely
fire-proof They have a wonderful
pipe organ in this theatre.
Los Angeles produces 80 per cent
of the moving pictures of America.
They have Just completed the
greatest municipal undertaking in
the world, the Los Angeles acque-
duct, which brings pure mountain
water distance Of $50 miles in suf.
ficient quantity to supply a city of
100000 people. Here, I will say,
the water rate is 10 cents per 100
cubic feet, with a scent minimum
rate in quantity. The irrigation
rate is l cent per inch per hour. This
is a gravity system-no pumping re-
quired. 1t delivers 100000 gallons
every "a hours, into reservoirs 100
feet above the city. The line con-
Isists of SO miles of covered conduit,
40 miles uncovered, 81 miles of open
canal, II miles of inverted syphons,
43 miles of tunnels 10 to 13 feet, in
diameter, with four reservoirs along
the line, holding months supply.
This water power can be utilized in
producing 10000 horsepower of
electrical energy, the sale of which
will take care of the bonds and in
terest of both the acqueduct and the
electric plant. This project was
fathered by the Los Angeles Cham
Der of Commerce at a cost of $685.
100000. 4H
The city is enjoying a wonderful
amount of building at present sever
al s to II story buildings are now
| being constructed. The Pacific FL
nance, a history office building,
was just completed at a cost of one
and'a quarter million dollars. There
was $685. 900 worth of marble alone
used in this structure.
The L. A. Railroad are construct
ing ten story building at a cost of
S750,000. The Pacific Mutual In
surance are erecting a twelve story
building costing one and one-fourth
million and to show you the enormity
of it there are 1900 doors in this one
building and the base board used If
stretched out would reach over seven
miles.
The firm I am working for have
the painting and decorating contract
on all of these buildings.
| have been in the railway building
for ten weeks and it will not be COM
pleted for some four weeks yet.
This firm run as high as 200 men.
The moving picture industry is
quite a concern employing about
$4,000 people and the annual pay
roll reaches around thirty millions
of dollars
So you see with all the factories
and industries and so much building
employing so many people and the
advantage of being where you can
spend nearly every day in the year
in the sunshine or in some park or
on the beach it is a wonderful place
to be, not only a rich mans country
but / think poor working mans
paradise
I had the privilege last Sunday of
visiting a part of the Pacific fleet
which lays in the harbor, seven ships.
The New Mexico the flagship and the
most modern and efficient of the
fleet is 624 feet long, 90 feet wide,
draws "a feet of water and is covered
with fourteen inch armor plate 20
feet below the water line. It carries
twelve 14-inch guns costing 100000
each and one shell weighs 1400 lbs.
and it costs $755 to fire it once. 1t
also carries fourteen 5-inch guns,
three anti-aircraft guns, two torpedo
guns and 1900 men on board. They
are now doing target practice and