Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-04
CALIFORNIA; Beauty Is
Joke, Says Wis. Editor
p. G. MORGAN, FORMER CITY EDI-
TOR OF EVENING WISCONSIN
TELLS OF GOLDEN WEST
Glendale, Calf.
August 21st., 1924.


letter / have been intending to write,
and as an example of determination
and all that, witness the fact that
this is Saturday Evening Post day
and my copy is on the mantel await
ing perusal.
We have been under the impression
that | had despatched letter to you
some months ago, and the more we
speculated, the more beclouded be-
came the issue. Therefore | don't
know lust what you have learned
about our movements since forsaking
moonshine for sunshine.
At the risk of repetition, | may
state that we are very nicely situated
here in our own home, which had
been completed only a month or so
before we bought in August of last
year. 1t is in a coming section of Glen
dale, which, by the way is known as
the fastest growing city in America.
Not boom stuff, but solid, substantial
growth. 1t is practically all residence,
and with all advantages is very de-
sirable place for persons whose bust,
ness is in Los Angeles.
| am in the financial department of
The Evening Herald, which is the
largest evening paper west of Chi
cago, having circulation not far be-
low 100000. We average more than
forty pages a day even in these slack
times, which means lot of work, as
you can appreciate. | handle about Is
per cent of the copy for the three
pages, and makeup four times day
on account of changing quotations.
For example, we give complete. list
of New York Stock Exchange opening
quotations in the second edition, the
noon quotations in the third, and clos
ing figures in the fourth, which alone
is some little composition. Also carry
complete New York bond list and
New York curb and dozens of others
A commodious new home will be ready
for the Herald toward the close of the
year. Are badly cramped at present.
Our four big presses can just take
care of present circulation, and for
that reason are making no effort to
add to it. The Herald is not proclaim
ed a Hearst journal, although control
ledI by him, and he also has The Elk.
aminer, on the morning side. The
other morning paper is The Times,
handed down from the late Gen. Har-
rison Grey Otis, and whose heirs are
bound by his viii to continue his poll
cies, including death to organized Ia
Dor. The Heralds competitors are the
Express, and the rather obscure Re-
cord, neither giving any bother.
AS any one can understand from
even casually scanning the daily
press, there is more news of varied
kinds busting in Los Angeles than else,
where in the United States Kid Nc
Coy being the latest to tear loose, or
at least held the pole position when
departed from the city this afternoon.
And then there's fearful lot that
never gets into the papers, or at least
is not sent out. and between the
crooks, the movies and others there
is no dearth of news. The nightly
holdup list is like that of drunk and
disorderIsy cases in Olden days, but
in the latter case the DRINKS were una
fortunate in that they were jagged
Automobile thefts run about 500 a
month There have been more than
twenty daylight bank holdups this
year.
| guess L. A. has the million popu-
lation in claims, and nothing can stop
it's expansion for years. For that rea-
son it probably is destined to be a
whopper some day. BY anneXing a
strip of land fifteen miles long it can
claim its own harbor now, and | be-
lieve the territory between it and the
ocean will be built up solidly some
day. The ambition of the majority of
people seems to be to come to Cali
fornia, and most of them head for L..
A. What the city needs is industries
to take care of these newcomers, and
while it can boast of great deal in
that respect right now, there is i'm
mediate need for more. Unemploy-
ment has been and is bad, even in
skilled trades, but of course the civic
organizations will not admit any
thing wrong.
Persons coming here, unless imme-
diate employment has been arranged,
had better have goodly stake, for it
sometimes takes months to get placed.
You can't discount southern Cali.
fornia climate, as a whole, but as to
natural beauty it is joke compared
with almost any section of the east.
The entire state does not have as
many lakes as Waukesha county, and
many of them are artificial have
been laughed at when telling of Villas
county and it's 800 odd lakes, but a
Northwestern road map showing For
est and Villas county water areas ST.
fenced the native sons. The character
of the country is entirely different
no lakes and streams and beautiful
woods such as we have known: not