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M|| ' *m 4 b*^^ '^F >'JHldL a % i^sß^^wM^^^^^^t ■ <^™'^^^^^^~JL^~y^l^>^*'^ •:- *._*_ - k»—— - ■«* *^*^^jj^Af - / . ." s . '- ',» PART II MAY BUILDING DATA MOUNT TO HIGH FIGURES L . Valuation of Fewer Than Fifteen Days Is in Excess of - $1,000,000 LOOK FOR OVER TWO MILLIONS List of Principal Improvement In augurated Since January , Last—a Booming Period THE month of May promises to be one of the record breakers In the building history of Los Angeles. With less than fifteen working days of the month eliminated, total build ing permits Issued as reported by the chief Inspector is 453, as against 29fi for the same period in May, 1909. The total valuation of authorized Improve ments thus fur this month is $1,033. --621, as compared with $386,245 for the same period In May a year ago. In the tabulation for the present month appear two reinforced concrete Structures! one of five stories and one of seven stories, total valuation $335, --000; also permits for fifteen Class C structures, six one-story buildings, seven two stories, one three-story and one four-story, total- valuation $202. --•145. Of the total permits 192 were for new homes, valued at $379,163. Before the end of the month it Is expected that the permits issued by 1 the building department will exceed 700 and that the total valuation will be In excess of $2,000,000. OFFICIAL BUILDING TABULATION Following Is, the official classified tabulation of authorized Improvements from May 1 to May 13, 1910: I'ennlts. Valuation. ('!■*■ A, rein, eonrreta... 'i ■ * 33.1,000 ('I.M C 15 tOt.UH Clara D, one-nlnry framfi 144 108,281 Ol«*« I>, IMi-»lwj friimn ft ■' (!2.7<A ClaM D, 2-»tory frame.. 2« 118,121 Bhrdn, Barnn (frame)... 'JO IS.OSO Brlrk alteration* 23 ftO.KBH frame alterations 149 AS,lBa Demolitions. . - 8 81.1 Totals. ;'. ::...:.'...... «M SI,OSB,«SI From May I to May 13. ...... Inclusive, 1809 296 888,54S RECORD FOR 1910 MONTHS Following Is a partial list of the new <£M. The EDISON IBjIPI AMBEROLA —iii^i { The Newest Edison Phonograph It combines the perfection of sound ■ . ■•'? reproduction with the highest mas tery of craftsmanship. All moving / parts and mechanism are built into ' *Nk\^ is** " a handsome cabinet of mahogany or / ,** a |)r oak. The Amberola is the phono {»~ graph for those who desire the best — realizes the very apex of perf ec- • tion. Come and hear the Amberol play some of the new 2-minute and 4-minute records. Price $200. Oth -2000 Roiu rianoia Haifa er Edison phonographs $12.50 to on »p«-i»i mj« at iftr, 250 $125. Easy payments may be ar and one-third regular , . * ■ value. ranged. Southern California Music Company "THE HOCSB OF MUSICAI. QoAl.m."" 332-334 South Broadway , Los Angeles Merchants Bank and Trust Co. 2£ ST SKS Branch: -JAQ 11 C RrrvirlwdV Transacts a General Bank -142« South Hoover street. ;U7*ll 3. DfUauW4y ln , and Trußt B m»ln«»». SAN PEDRO $3,000,000 was just voted by the people of Lob Angeles for the building of public Docks, ' Warehouses, etc., at San Pedro— foundation to one of the greatest free harbors in the world. The government has Just completed: the. $3,000,000 breakwater and has also appropriated over $500,000 for further Improvements In the harbor. The fortification site has been purchased by the government at a cost of $299,000. What more guarantee is necessary of the certainty of San Pedro becoming one of the world's greatest commer . cial centers?. Property within four blocks of the water . front can be bought at $600 and up per lot on following term?: $25 down, $10 per month. Take advantage of th« opportunity and see .me at once. Prices are bound to go up. . CHARLES MASON LOS ANGELES OFFICE, 202 SECURITY BUILDING SAN PEDRO OFFICE, 117 WEST SIXTH STREET REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING NEWS improvements started since January 1. 1010, and completed wholly or In part: I/(is Angeles Trust and Savings bank, Spring and Sixth, eleven Stories, $500, --000. William Garland, 532-6 South Broad way, seven stories, $100,000. Blrkel Music company, 44S South Broadway, six stories, I. W. Hellman. 116 West Fourth street, six stories, $200,000. Orpheum theater, fi2H-.16 .South Broad way, five stories, $300,000. Co-Tenant building. 627-33 South Broadway, five stories. $105,000. Consolidated Kealty 'company, 601 South Hill, two additional stories, $125,- T. L. Tally, R3l South Broadway, two stories, $25,000. Martz estate. Seventh and Hope streets, one story, $20,000. Fi. v . <c E. it. fSKinner, H"i riouih jjos Angeles, four stories. $85,000. New Method Laundry company, 401 East Sixth, three stories, $32,000. F W. Braun, 724 South Main, three. Btories.' $26,000. .1 H. Newberry & Co., 118 Sou^n Vlenes street, three, stories. $30,000. I N. Van Nuys, 1237 South Olive street $2f>,000. Alexandria hotel annex. Fifth and Spring streets, fourteen stories, $1,000, --000 Althus Hotel company. Fifth and Ol ive streets, six stories, $145,000 J C 11. Ivlns. 948 South Flgureroa street,' six stories. $96,000. J. H. Kdmonds, 249 South Olive street, six stories, $75,000. Sab.ichl estate, 75!) South Main, Tour stories. 186,000. ... ._ Sabachl estate, 763 South Los An bplps two ptnrles. $18,000. Kaspare. Cohn, 113 Kast Second street, three stories, $40,000. Johnson ft. Avery, 715 South Central avenue, two stories, $35,000 Hiißhes ft Chaffey. 424 South M.am street, three stories. $70,000. RANGE OF LOT VALUES IN EAGLE ROCK VALLEY E. Becker reports tho following sales in Eagle Hock valley:- In Florlsta Heights tract: To C. A. Dix, a lot 50x 150 feet on Colorado street near Town- Rend, for $1000; to P. W. Bernhardt, a lot 50x150 feet on Waldran avenue near Townsend. for $600; to K. Heller, a lot, 50x160 feet on Colorado street, for $1000- to A. A. Richardson, a lot 50x 150 feet on Colorado street, for $1000; to B. A. Humphrey, a lot 50x150 feet on Colorado street near Townsend, for $1200; to B. B. Blair, a lot 60x140 on Fairview avenue near Townsend, for $500- to M. Bannon, two lots 50x150 feet each on Waldran avenue near Town send, for $1200; to M. R. Mcßurney, a lot 90x165 feet on Paloma avenue near Hill street, for $1800, bought for Imme diate Improvement: to T. I,arson, lotn 21 ana 22. Myers * Kulll Eagle Rock tract. Improved with a four-room bungalow, for $1300: to J. Bryan, a lot !>8x165 feet on Paloma avenue near Hill street, for $1400. Los Angeles Sunday Herald New Orpheum Theater for South Broadway E NW tij JlsS -^MT** H FIFfB ; c ? . i 'wm *i?i i; ga i * ■ • '"■" ■j'^'Y*":'l'-'-' ■"*:"::*?*■ ■■**. .... ■- - ■■■■■:■.. ■.■•:■:-;■> 'v'^ '£'.-.?y ■' ■■■■■■■ •■■ ■». W ■"-*." '****. < .'... \. Jfcij'^rtf *'" ■"■ ■"* -^~"-*~-«-^-*~-^--*™^^;^<^; :■;■:■:::■:■:.■!■■■■?■.■.:-:• :^ | m psfi p» 1: : |i6«<r ; mm f. *■.!« m^ f V^'mp mm %:'■: mm ws'll lm*' --. ■ FOUR.STORY MODERN STRUCTURE WILL COST ABOUT $400,000 AND WILL BE OPENED CHRISTMAS DAY, 1910 GOROKOI nlmont beyond expression will be the new Orpheum theater to be rreeted at once on the east side of Broadway between Sixth and Seventh streets fur the Orpheum « Irrcilt corporation, of which Martin Beck Is pres ident. More than $375,000 will bo expended in the construction of the ornate struc ture, which was designed by O. Albert Lansburgh ,of San Francisco, who is represented in Los Angeles by R. B. Young & Son. It is the aim of the management, to have the building completed and fur nished throughout ready : for occupancy about Christmas time, when the grand opening will occur. ~-,; * mmjmm TOUTS STOHIES HIGH The new Orpheum will cover all the lot, which Is 122x150 feet in size, ex tending from Broadway to a wide alley at the rear. The front of the structure will he subdivided into stores and of fices. The building will be four stories high, with four stores on the. ground floor, a ten-foot lobby to the office building at the south end and a ten foot passageway to the gallery and stage entrance on the north side. The, stage also has two entrances from the alley, where, all trunks and scenery will be received. The stage is 38 feet deep and 112 feet, wide, the opening being 40 feet wide. There will be fourteen dressing rooms, shower baths, a huge tub for animals and a large animal room, together with extensive property rooms, scene dock, orchestra room, etc., the most complete, in America. The orchestra pit, will ac commodate twenty-five, and the orches tra will be increased when the new house is occupied. The building will ho a steel frame, re inforced concrete, absolutely fireproof and with every modern appliance known to date for the comfort and con venience of the theater-going public. The lot itself it so admirably situated with an alley at the rear that the exits and courts will run from street to street, and thus make the edifice one of the safest In America. It will have thirty exists. The seating capacity will be over 2000, 000 of which will be on the first floor, 600 in the balcony, 500 in the gallery." There will be thirteen loges and twenty-six boxes, the loges occupying GOING EAST AFTER TIPS FOR COLUMBIA HOSPITAL New Institution to Be Finest in Country—Work in Progress Dr. C. Pi Drum, president of the General Osteopathfc Hispltal associa tion of lios Angeles, will leave for a six weeks trip .throughout the princi pal eastern cities for the purpose of investigation . the arrangement and latest conveniences and* methods of operating followed in the.leading hos pitals of the east. "While away he will visit St. Luke's hospital in Chicago, the German and University hospitals at Philadelphia, and the Columbus and Roosevelt hospitals in New York city, acknowledged to be the most modernly equipped of any In the United States. Dr. prum expects to gather many valuable ideas for incorporation in the new Columbia hospital, which the Gen eral Osteopathlc association is building on the northeast corner of Orange and Wttmer streets on ' one of the most sightly locations in the southwest, for such an institution. Work was begun last Monday on the grading and terracing of the lot, and men and teams will soon be engaged In removing the earth for the basemen^, and foundation walla of massive con crete. These will be put in at once, and will be ready for. the. superstructure by the. time Dr. Drum returns, about the last, of June. • . Architect Norman F. Marsh has practically completed the , working plans, and as soot) as practicable work will begin on the casting of.the con crete structure. > This will be strongly reinforced with steel, and, finished on both the exterior. twd. lnterlior with a EDITED BY JOHN YOUNG SUNDAY M.OKNINC;, MAY 15, 1910. the front of the first balcony. The theater proper will he to the rear of the Office building, with a broad en trance vestibule passing through tho front portion and exit courts at either end of front elevation. The facade will be of polychrome terra cotta, with de tails characteristic of the theater lo cated behind it, with balconies of bronze and a handsome bronze marquise surmounting the. entrance to the theater, on either side, of which there will be two stores. The entrance to the office building will be on Seventh street. The lobbies will be finished in colored imported marble, and the color scheme of the Interior will be gendarme-blue, old rose and burnished gold. The light ing will be diffused from concealed lamps and the ventilation will be the plenum system, or fin air chamber under tho orchestra floor, the fresh air being forced through the standards of tho chairs and exhausted by fans above the ceiling. The air will he washed and filtered by moans of coke filters, over which a cataract of water Is constantly passing, thus making it absolutely Bani tary. This is similar to the system so successfully used in the San Francisco Orpheum. PROVISION** FOR WOMEN One of the novel features of the plan is the women's parlor on the. mezzanine, overlooking the entrance lobby and ac seocible to the patrons of the orchestra and balcony floors. A handsome smok ing room for men will be installed in the basement, immediately under the entrance vestibule, with wide marble staircases leading thereto. Both the stage and front portion of the edtflce will be protected by the Installation of a complete sprinkler system. No ex pense is to be spared by the manage ment to fit up this house most luxur iously, both for the comfort and enter tainment of its patrons. The "sight lines" or ranges of vision in the house have been so very care fully studied out that there is not a seat In the place that has not an un obstructed and complete view of every part of tho stage—something exceed ingly rare. The great width of tho house perjuiti it to be correspondingly shallow, and the farthest seat from the stage is within sixty feet of the cur tain line—another feature rarely found. beautiful artificial stone of great, du rability and strength, making the structure as near fire and earthquake proof as is possible. The Columbia hospital will thus become one of the most modern, safest and best equipped of any In the United States, and will help In keeping- L»os Angeles in the forefront of all American cities In the modern character of Ita public im provements. PELTON BLOCK ON HILL TO COST ABOUT $40,000 A three story building, to cost about $40,000, will he erected at 636-38 South Uill street by Dr. A. M. Pelton. There will be stores on the first floor and lofts or living apartments above. The build ing will he so constructed that addi tional stories can he erected. It will cover a lot 3Xx138 feet to St. Vincent place. A. A. Allen, Wllcox building, is agent for the property. Dr. Pelton has just finished the erec tion on the, west side of Olive, between Sixth anil Seventh, of a throe-story ■tore and apartment building, the first floor of which has been leased by Uhl Bros., wall paper dealers of Los Ange las mill San Kraneiseo. WASHINGTON ACRES TRACT IS FOUR MILES FROM VENICE Mr. Werner, with Strong & Dickin son, reports numerous inquiries and sales at Washington Acres, where the company is making Bret-class improve ments In the way of laying out streets, curbs and sidewalks. This superb prop erty is located just south of Washing ton boulevard about, a mile and a. half west of the Palms, and four miles from Venice. The Playa del Key cap passes through the property, wtlh a station called Bundy thereon. Already lots valued at $10,000 have been sold. The soil is a rich, sandy loam, will grow anything and give good returns. As I lie property Is being sold on ve> y easy term! -at lfl per cent down and 1 per cent a month—it appeals to the general public. No posts—cantilever plan. Retiring rooms and toilets lead off each floor. The entranre to tho main floor and balcony will bp through a 20-foot lobby in tho center of the building into an elaborate foyer, and thence by easy stairs to the balcony, and by easy grades to the seats on tho main flour. The entire house can he emptied in leas than two minutes. No danger of panic under any circumstances. The house will be completely carpeted, and the seats will be unusually wide and roomy, with plenty of leg space between rows. PERFKTT EI.KCTRIO- KQI'IPMENT The electric equipment of both stage and theater proper will be the very latest. The "dimmers" will be in a separate fireproof room and will oper ate from the huge marble switchboard on the stage right. Every light In the building will be controlled from this one point, and variations now out of the question in any less modern house. The same applies to the arrangements for the moving picture machine, which will be In a fireproof box, absolutely isolated, so that no matter what hap pened no one would be In the least endangered thereby. A complete house and exterior tele phone system, with switchboards and a central station, will he installed in connection with the theater proper, so that all parts of it may be reached from the general and press offices, which will be,on the second floor, and also from the outside. Vacuum clean ing plant in the building will care for a thorough cleaning up of the theater after every performance, and the splen did ventilating system will permit the temperature, winter or summer, to be kept within one degree of a. set tem perature, automatically. Thus the house will always be cool in the hottest weather and warm in the coldest. At> the entire air is constantly undergoing change automatically there can bo no stale air in the place. The new general offices will be thoroughly equipped in every detail for the business In hand. The press de partment will be particularly well equipped for the dispensation of news and the handling of publicity. The box office system will be perfect, so that any Information as to tickets will be at hand for patrons with the least possible discomfort or delay. CHESTER BUILDING IS LATEST BLOCK Modern Structure at Spring and Fifth Streets to Cost $1,000,000 A. ■€. Bilicke, president; J, S. Tor rance, vice president; J. F Sartori, E. J. Marshall, James H. Adams. R. A. Rowan and M- S. Hellma.n, officers, di rectors and stockholders of the t'hester Fireproof Building company, state that during the present summer a 12-story modern business and office building will be erected on the northeast corner of Spring and Fifth streets, the Improve ment to cost $1,000,000. Tenants of the old building will vacate early in Aug ust, when the lot will be cleared for the erection of the new structure, which will be known as the Chester building. The structure will have more than 800 offices on the upper floors. The first floor celling will be twenty-five feet in height. Toe manner of dividing the first floor space has not been deter mined. The building will have a frontage of 100 feet on Spring and 160 on Fifth. In the rear will he a wincr, fin feet (ride and 240 long, with an alloy "ii nisi side. The principal elevator entrance will be on Spring street. The building will be of steel, and will he a class A Structure, of course. The exterior will resemble that of the Security building. Construction will be completed in about eighteen months after August 1. The site of the building was leased for fifty years from the Jones estate. Verdugo Canyon Land Co. Ha* Just tußued the Most Beautiful and Ar tUtlo Illustrated Booklet ever published la V» Autsele*. Call or send lor o»e. JNO. A. PIRTLE BIG INCREASE IN BUILDING ACTIVITY AT LONG BEACH LONG BEACH, May 14.—Building permits issued in this city since Jan uary I have authorize,i Improvements valued at $362,962, an agalnsi $197,661 for the first five months of last year. Most of the buildings erected thli have been homes. All parts of the city are represented In the permits Issued. Among last week's permits were: Q. S. Halse, five-room house on Anser street, $1600; R. Reynolds, live-i m cottage, 1610 Locust avenue, $1600; S. C. Buck, move and repair house al rir.n Lime avenue, $:i0f): J. W. Sparks, six-room house. Tenth street and Pa cific avenue, $2buu; Mrs. i ora Heart well, story-and-a-half house in Ala milos Beach townsite, $1800; W. A. An drews, five-room house, Kennebec ave nue, Jisoii: 1,. Balte, 27 Cerritos avenue. six-room house, $2000; Richard Loynes, move and repair house, Ohio street and Washington avenue, $F>00; J. E, Oro gan. repairs, 711 Elm avenue, $.",00; w. I>. Walthall, addition, 925 Temple ave nue, $S5; Mrs. C II Morehouse, dwell ing, Kighth street and Coronado aye, nue, 12600. BRAINERD'S PORTABLE HOUSES H. J. Brainerd & Co.. manufacturers and builders of sectional and ready made portable houses, report a number of callers during the week. Several contracts are about to be closed with oil companies, ranch owners, etc. Call ers from the seashore and beach re sorts are coming in daily. There is a big demand for the Bralnerd houses. The company has contrncterl for a bungalow to go to Barstow. where several Bralnerd houses have been erected. Carl J. Schader of Parker, Ariz., is interesting many in these houses there. In the oil fields Hugh Rell has an office, for the pale of the Brainerd houses. BUNGALOWS ARE POPULAR Another handsome new bucnalow Is being erected in the McCarthy compa ny's- Normandle Avenue Square tract. Plans are being drawn for several others. The cement work and street work are fast Hearing completion, and many are. taking advantage of these bargains, selecting one or more lots and building fine bungalows on them. In creased inquiry and many sales are re ported. BOUGHT 38,000 ACRES Deeds have been filed in San LiUis Oblspo county whereby Baron J. 11. yon Sehroeder transfers to Tsains W. Hell- Stan the Nacimiento ramiio, consisting of 38,000 acres of land bordering on San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties. It Is understood that the Hellman inter ests paid $3,0,000 In hard coin for the ranch. CROWN OF THE GOLDJ^Ls^-"''^ THE HALF-WAY HARBOR BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO Lots Now $250 and Up Right Around Our Inner Harbor .■.■.-..■.-..■ ■ .■.. ■.'.■ ■.■.'.■ll'-.'.-.:.'.:...-.; ■.:■.■:■■ . ■-■: ■:■:■■:■■■:■:■:■.. ■■. :■: ■■- ■■■■■::■:■■.■■■.■■■„■.■:■■. ■ :■;■ ■-:■.■..■.■.■.■■.-.■,■. .-■ ■. ■ ■.■■. . .■.. :. ■. .■■■.■ ■■ ■■■ ■.■:■ ■ ■■■ ■■ ■■ ■■■. ■.":■ , Development of This Inner Harbor has been going on for four years. We have been directing the rapid flow of fresh, clear waters from three rivers, converging into one at this point, and so clearing our waterway to a depth varying from 9 to 20 feet. It will be but a short time before we can expect to admit ocean draught vessels. Now Is the Time to secure choice water frontage lots or lots in streets con verging to frontage on our inner'harbor. The choicest properties are limited. IMPORTANT AND VALUA BLE LOCATIONS.CAN NOW BE HAD AT FROM $250 TO $1500 PER LOT. Frontage varies from 25 to 36 feet by 100 to 125 feet. " . Interesting Free Stereopticon Lectures Every Tuesday and Friday at 8 p. m. 121 MERCHANTS TRUST BLDG. 207 30. BDWY. ' LOS ANGELES. CALIF. Classified Section BIG BEET SUGAR FACTORY GOING UP IN ORANGE COUNTY Plant Will Cost $850.000~Fund of $150,000 to Be Produced FULLERTON IS NOW BOOMING Option Secured on Fertile Forty- Acre Tract—Plans Are Formed According to a recent statement which appeared in the Fullerton News, the Fullerton section of Orange comity "Will have a. bier sugar factory within the coining year, judging by the meet. ing of public-spirited citizens at 'Ana helm last week, at which a commictce of three was appointed to solicit funj« to raise $150,000 local capital needed to secure the enterprica, which will cost about $850,000. "The meeting was addressed by. Mr. Hadsell, representing the Warner Sugar Refining company of New York,' and a sugar refinery at Lyons, N. V. ' The latter factory will not be. operated in the future, as a sufficient acreage of beets could not- be obtained, and it is the purpose of the company, if it can secure sufficient encouragement, to move the best of the machinery from . tho eastern plant to Anaheim. ! "The cost of the proposed factory will be $850,000. It will have a capacity of 600 tons a day, guaranteed to oper ate about four months a year, com mencing the early part of July. To keep the factory running the full ca pacity during this time 5000 acres of beets must be contracted for. The management will have to look for at least half this quantity to the beet. growers in the neighborhood of Ful lerton and Buena Park. "An option has been secured on a forty-acre tract between Anaheim ami Pullorton, and if the $150,000 in sub scriptions can be obtained contracts I for the building of the factory will be let by July 1."