them, and If he remained he had to do something. This condition did not 

 apply, of course, to the leisure classes, but California is the land of the 

 worker as well as of the pleasure-seeker. This vexed problem is now in 

 a large measure solved. The future of Los Angeles is assured. We have 

 something to show besides scenery and climate. 



It is scarcely necessary for me to explain at this late day that Los 

 Angeles is a summer no less than a winter resort, and that this applies to 

 the coast cities from Santa Barbara to San Diego. The status is firmly 

 established. I will not bore you with statistics; simply say that we have 

 pleasanter, more comfortable weather in summer than any other section 

 in the country, and without the humidity that is the summer curse of 

 less favored localities. We do not leave home to escape the heat; people 

 come here to avoid it. Los Angeles is the chosen summer resort of Nevada, 

 Arizona, and Mexico. 



There are nearly a dozen well-equipped seaside resorts within an 

 hour's trolley ride from Los Angeles. There are equally as many foothill 

 and valley towns no further away from the city, each with its own peculiar 

 attractions, and possessing many charms for the tourist. It is not strange 

 that under such favorable conditions there should be more automobiles in 

 Los Angeles than in any other city in the country of equal size. There is 

 scarcely any comfort or pleasure sought by people with plenty of money 

 that cannot be obtained in Los Angeles. Hotels and theaters are on a par 

 with those in the largest cities. 



No longer can it be said that the southern part of California lives by 

 climate and tourists alone. Even the envious have discarded that fling. 

 We are standing on our own bottom. A city like Los Angeles, that for 

 years has been growing at the rate of twenty thousand annually, must 

 have something for its people to do. Our commerce and manufactures 

 are increasing rapidly. Small farms and spreading trolley lines give us 

 a thickly populated suburban area with a self-supporting, profit-making 

 population. We have voted $23,000,000 for a permanent water supply 

 and the work is now in progress. We are selling the water bonds right 

 here in California. The great harbor of commerce and of refuq^e at San 

 Pedro, the port of Los Angeles, is more than two thirds completed, and 

 is already the haven for shipping. 



MONTEREY AND ITS PENINSULA 



liOUIS liAXGE 



"Kennst du das Land?"— Goethe. 



THERE are fair lands besides California, but none fairer. California 

 has many a mountain peak as high and noble as Mt. Blanc, many 

 a valley as romantic as those of the Alps, many a lake as beautiful 

 as Maggiore and as mystic as Titicaca, but she has only one 

 Monterey Peninsula. As unique and as incomparable as her only Yosemite, 

 a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the Peninsula of Monterey reaches 

 out into the Pacific. Nowhere does the immensity of the ocean impress 

 you as from the wondrous shores of this peninsula. Nowhere do you 

 behold scenery more rapturous than from her heights. The Bay of Mon- 

 terey! Where will you find her rival? And no fjord of Norway could be 

 more picturesque than Carmel Bay, on the south side of this peninsula. 

 Skirting this wonderful peninsula is the famous "Seventeen-mile 

 Drive," possible only on a peninsula like this. The Yosemite has its 

 groves of giant sequoias, but the peninsula has its cypress grove, the only 

 one of its kind, hoary with age, awe-inspiring, where linger the rays of 

 the setting sun. Such may have been the sacred grove at Cumae, where 

 Aeneas met the sibyl. Scylla and Charybdis are close by, too, where an 



