The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1922, Page 2

a That Is, They’re Tied Together ~ by a Shoeatring; “World’s Largest City” () By W. HL. Porterfield It’s mighty hard to write of Los Angeles. I remember the bright Jan- uary morning when I first saw the city. That was 82 years ago. A dis- couraged looking town of 50,000 more or less discouraged folk trying hard to recover from the most disas- trous real estate boom in history, I guess. i The ‘biggest’ thing in Los Angeles in ’90 was the Hollenbeck Hotel. I stayed at the Natick where you could “get' a good bed’ for two-bits and a good meal for another two-hi The’ barber told me there was one deader place than Los Ange and that was San Diego—and was right. Today Los Angeles is the largest city in the world! Aw I look at that last paragraph the thing doesn’t seem right, some-] how.'In fact, when I think of New York and Chicago and London, 1 feel almost certain that I have blun- dered and yet, that’s what the réal estate man told me and anyhow one must not pay too much «ittention to details when dealing with’ the most remarkable community of modern times. Los Angeles was founded by the Mission Fathers and soon became the principal town of that part of _Old Mexico, which supremacy it has] always easily maintained. All Roads Lead to L. A. In 1870 it had 2600 inhabitants. In, 1880 it had grown to 12,000; since which time we've all lost count. If you want the figures, go to the En- cyclopedia or latest booster booklet, as you prefer, _... Anyhow, let’s ' cuit * out details. What has made Los Angeles ‘the great, powerful city she is today and done it all within a scant half century? ee © First, the rich, fertile San Gabriel Valley which stretches ‘up east to the mountain passes 60 miles away and Which is today an almost con- tinuous citrus orchard interspersed . with ‘splendid villa homes and vine- “yards and alfalfa fields. Then, the railroads, the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Salt Lake, and all therést until it became a truism that if one wished. to go to\South- ern California, he had only to stum- ble-into a Pullman or tourist sleep- “ing car, stay there three or four day, and he'd wake up in Los An- Literally all railroads led here. _Tisonsands upon thousands of Améer- canis from all parts of the country e to Los Angeles, and remained Smunths and even years without ever going north of the Techahipi moun- eins’ They knew nothing of the “yest ‘of the world, of California in ‘many’ways more wonderful than any- “thing:the southern part has to _fer, and what is more, they didn’t cares> ” i ‘Then came oil. For years old. set- ew that the great subter- il deposite stretched . down region. About 30 years ~ago,. just things were most de- pressed, the black ‘fluid began to be pumped to the surface. Millions and tens of millions of d az: thus added to = and Los Angeles took oil. Then Imperial Valley: and Arizo- na, made by great irrigation enter- prises, began to pour their treasures inte. the Angeleno lap. ‘ Ses: Comes. to, LA. ..,, And then the Movies! No one = will ever know how much the silver screen has, brought to Los Angeles, because no! one knows what divisor to use in figuring out the salaries of the movie queens and drones,, and even the workers (who earn the most and get the least). == But it was and has been enough to add millions to her net “assets, millions and. milljons and yet more millions, and as to advertising—well, that's something else again. ‘And wealth begets wealth. With the tremendous growth of the ‘city “samme the passion fot everything that makes a metropolis. Los Angeles, 20 _...miles from the sea, decided’ it was = Tecessary to have a harbor. So she took Wilmington creek at San Pedro, ‘annexed creek, town and slough at the ‘mouth, attached tha ‘whole thing to the main city by a shoe- string of land- 20 miles long. and proceeded to develop there ‘a grea' ‘man-made ocean harbor, with break- waters and everything. = + Ocean steamship lines to all parts of the world are, now being estab- - lished, and enterprises of such vast = import that they can anly be ap- proximately imagined and not a = comprehended, are growing up and, * being founded in this wonderkimd of = the cities. : + A perfectly amating system of interurban railroads, reaching out to every point of the compass and bringing the region 20 miles in cir-| = eumference to hourly touch with = the heart of the city, had hardly = been completed, when the “later gas-| = oline or early distillate” period set in. i ‘And, Los Angeles came to be the greatest motor car city per capita . insthe world, Last month her judges 2 collected $100,000 in\fines for viola- tions of the traffic faws, and so frightful is the congestion on Spring and Broadway that I have seen an = otherwise intelligent man spend one mortal hour and bun tp a gallon of gas and pretty’ nearly ruin a set of. brakes, wandefing around trying to find a spot where he could park a-car for 20 minutes to enable him to match a piece of silk for Friend Wife! ~ This year, 800,000 auto licenses: will be issued in California and it would seem that most of them try to get on Broadway at the same time! Everybody owns an automobile, ranging from Fords to Fiats, and many of them are paid for! In jus- tice to all, however, it shoyld be said that most of the paid-for cars are wearing out. And the trolley lines didn’t die) at that, There are still a lot of folks who prefer to ride in the public con-: $ yveyances and let the company take a 3 care of the same after they have] i x Jeft’em. And the same is true of city as well as interurban lines. i : v | LOS ANGELES-BY-THE-SEA LOS ANGELES WAS FOUNDED BY THE, (MISSION FATHERS. How It All Started With all its growing-pains, Los Angeles has found time to fool with art, as a rapidly developing gallery and museam in’ Exposition Park will testify; and among’ the interest- ing ‘sights there is one ‘of 'the finest collection of fossilized bones to be found’ ‘anywhere. ae ¥t seems that the’ site of Los ‘An- geles was, in the early pleocine or late tertiary period, I forget which, occupied by a wild bunch of sabre- toothed tigers who’ went roaring about feeding on dinasaurs and perodactyls and all their, neighbors of that interesting time. Of course it was ‘fine for the tigers’ and their sabre tooths, but tough on the more peaceable ani- mals, Hy And as.‘a result, prehistoric Los Angéles ‘showed no growth at all, rather the reverse as time went on. Finally in the early neolithic a: came a visitor from Iowa, He was not al all like the present delightful species which dominate this city but of course that couldn’t be ex- pected in that far-of time. This. neolitic man from Iowa, however, had an expansive smile and an extra ounce of gray matter in his headpiece, and he called the .sabre-tooths together, for animals could talk in those days, and to them he said: “You poor simps. Here you are practically starving .to death be-. cause you’ve scared away all the game by your voraciousness. Let’s issue a proclamation, invite all the vegetarians to comeback (all who are left alive, that, is), and give our word and sacred honor that we won't hust ’em. What we need here is conversation .of our © natural re- sources or Los Angeles will never ftow.” “oWhat Came to Pass: And ‘so,as the story. goes, the proclamation went out and the Iowa neoliti vonvinced the prehistoric vegetaria: that they wouldn't be eaten hot or cold at the feasts of the sabre-tooth tigers. All that ‘was necessary was for them to work and raise vegetables and fruits for all to eat. As for the sabre-tooth tigers, the Iowan agreed that they would give up their flesh-eatng pro- pensities. and learn to eat nuts if only. the work of raising and gather- ing the same would be done by the vegetarians. ‘And so it was agreed. But the prehistoric animals, who by this time had got to walking on their hind legs were afraid to. serve the sabre-tooths ‘personally and so was established the first serve-self cafeteria. aes Today, asa million can testify, tf the catch” and’ carry ‘restaurant, lover the prairie, “All hay shiild Los Angeles is the headquarters of consumed in New York’every day. <A She and | Above is Miss Floretice Gray, ene oe ane modern’ soa miss, her when working as a truck driver in Philadelphia, in overalls and enjoying a cig as she performed part of the truck driver's duties, : Her: feminine fees was discovered when aaother fellow- in the.gaag smashed her the. beak in a fight, 0-0 {THE FINEST COLLESTION OF FOSSILIZED GONES eo Ne Char piesticaeeremin a IN-TAE CARLY WSL pregcine beaion. where soup and-fish and everything gather. at, the fountain while you. try to,grab.a tumbler, ety ven There are many theories. which try to account for the present-day greatness of Los Angeles. None of these theories is satisfactory to me. But. a vigit\to the wonderful pre- historic museum at, Exposition Park will show you the bones of the an- cient dinasaurs and sabré-tooths and all the rest, found in, loving’ proximi- ty in the same subterranean cave not far away and if that ‘isn’t sig- Nas T don’t know, what you call it. UVESESUEASGUEEOCUUEAUEEREAR2UCQSQONQGUUCOUGGLUOON0ON00084000000G0000000U0000008080800000EH000EOUUUOON000000000000000088000000000H00Q0000 : Seriously, Los Angeles is too, won- derful, too surprising to be dealt with in a column. ¥ Thirty years “have passed since I first saw Los “Angeles. Thirty yeats hence? Ah, hain, wondeefal place it will be, with “its hundred parks, its subways, its’ 100-foot boulevards, its 1000-room apartment’ ‘ houses— n’everything—that is, it will be: won- ceria for those wio love vast cities, Me, I'd rather choose my own neigh- bors on Main Street. (Copyright, 1922, NEA\ Service), PRAIRIE FIRE. . WARNING ISSUED AT FT. YATES tot og Washburn, N. Aug. 21.—Supt. E. D, Mossman has. recently made public a circular, warning the resi- dents of the reservation of the pres- ent danger from prairie fires and ask-| ing the co-operation of all to ‘aid in preventing their occurence. “This year,” Mr. Mossman says, “we have a very heavy coat of grass and vegetation all. over the reservation. A fire well started this year will sweep the entire country. There is enough vegetation on the prairie this year to make ordinary fire-guards of no use’ whatever. Well trimmed areas and considerable ploughing. will be neces- sary around ‘farm homeb to protect them. Hay left in the field will ‘sure-. ly ‘be’ destroyed should ‘a fire ‘run thereforé be hauled’ and stacked ‘on ploughed ‘fields where it can be pro- cted.”” Ney ‘There’ are practically’ only’ three sources of fires, according to'the ¢ir- cular, the sparks from engines, cigar or cigatettel stubs and camp fires. 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