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AMONG CITIES LOS ANGELES IS
here, and these communities were scattered everywhere, in the East, North, South, Middle West and Far West. Meeting here on common ground, mingling each with the other, there has grown out of this fusion a complex community which has no counterpart elsewhere on the civilized globe.
This community, living in the midst of the highest type of civilization ever attained by man, in an atmosphere of optimism, big projects, big ideas and lofty hopes, is evolving a race more in harmony with the Creator than any other race ever could have been.
The children born here from parents of such a race are necessarily children of broader views, higher aspirations, and more nearly God-like tendencies, than children elsewhere. This unquestionably is one of the most important of all the conditions manifested in this extraordinary region.
The         The   Creator  has  provided  and
Coast man has developed, on the coast of Southern California contiguous to Los Angeles, about 47 miles of beach line. Nowhere else on this continent can be found so many delightful beach points as are included in the 47 miles just mentioned. It is unfortunate that the limits of this booklet will not permit satisfactory description of Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Venice, Playa del Rey, Redondo, San Pedro, Wilmington, Long Beach, Naples, Bay City, Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Balboa. Scattered glimpses of some of these beach attractions and possibilities will be found on other pages.
The development of a beach point has always been an alluring diversion for rich men. At present on the Pacific coast the most expensive and ambitious of these plans are for Santa Monica, the oldest incorporated town in Southern California. They involve an immediate initial outlay of two million dollars, to be followed by untold millions later. In the preparation of these plans careful study has been made of Trouville, in France; San Sebastiano, in Spain; Bray, in Ireland; Obau, in Scotland; Brighton, in England, and Llandudno, in Wales.
Let no millionaire with esthetic tendencies and a consuming desire to help his fellow man have fun—with the incidental motive of augmenting his own exchequer—imagine that the richest deposits on this Southern California beach line have already been appropriated. Generations yet to come will find millionaires now unhatched reaping great profit from some new form of exploitation on this  astounding stretch of coast.
All the world has its eyes turned toward the  Pacific side of these United
States, and is only awaiting an opportunity to head this way for habitat, occupation or diversion. The most optimistic of us today has a very restricted comprehension of the money these people are going to expend at the beach resorts already and to be developed.         "•
The About 20 miles south of the Harbor center of the city lies the harbor of Los Angeles. It was formerly an insignificant inlet of the sea, with four feet of water at low tide, and the boats which came to it—almost equally insignificant in size, cast anchor in the open roadstead outside. The United States has built, at a cost of about $3,000,000, a curved breakwater more   than   two   miles in   length.     This
The explosion which, on October 1, 1910, wrecked the "Times" and hurled into eternity twenty-one innocent men, made the Los Angeles "Times" a household word wherever men love or hate industrial liberty. It is controlled, edited and managed by that world-renowned warrior and journalist, General Harrison Gray Otis. The magnificent granite edifice seen above stands upon the site where those martyrs were sacrificed. The homes of the two great morning papers of Los Angeles are the two most complete plants in the world devoted exclusively to publishing a single newspaper.
protecting arm provides an artificial outer harbor, into which the passageway from the sea is 4000 feet wide, and from which has been dredged an entrance to the inner harbor ranging from 38 to 40 feet in depth. The outer harbor includes about 600 acres, two-thirds with 30 feet of water or more, and one-third with a depth ranging from 20 to 30 feet. In the outer harbor have already been completed about one mile, and in the inner harbor about four miles of wharf under private ownership. The city has constructed, to date, about one mile, one-half in the outer harbor and one-half in the inner harbor. At the sides and approaches to the wharves in the outer harbor, there has been dredged a depth of 36 feet at the very lowest tide, so that Los   Angeles   harbor   can   accommodate