'^^v A^-^ .9* ^V .^ >^. o > ■t-0^ *bV" t o^-^!k5i- <^ov^ 'i^^^ '"^^0* :^^W: ^ov^' fM^^\ '-^^.^ ' ^' ^^-^K 4 o ,J -o.-^*/ V^V '-■v-^*/ V-- •v*!..v^.>**.,rv---'''"/i.*v^">** *' Q_ * ' o 3.0 r,. » -e .** , «■ ' • ^oV ^°^*-v / .. V^\/ %'^-'*/ \>^\/ %. ^.v 4 o \ ''^'* ,/°-. '-^^ JK %«> ./°-. ''^^' .^°^"^^. v% -°.*^-''/ "V'^'y' "°^*^-%o' ^'v, -~= /^' ft ^ ''■••~J:'>Ei>..i-''"' CTommemoratibe of the (l^ffidaKlDpenm^ (Hh^^ £o5 Ancjelp Aquehut t (Exposition l^ark K'obcmbcrJTifth an^ •$!xfh Nineteen ?6undre5 (thirteen (Tompiimcnisof (Shr los Atigclrs (Fdcbraticin ((rommis»ion /Oc^igned. Compiled and turitten bg T.B.3t>al>i«on- CorYiiu;HT 1913 By Los Angei.es Chamueh ok Commerce THIS BOOK NOT EOH SALE A COPY 3IAV BE FOUND IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES ENGRAVINGS BV B R Y AN - B R A NDEN BU RG CO PRINTING AND BINDING BY KINGSLEY. MASON a COLLINS CO ;CI.A3567!)9 1^/ <^' "&/jr^wJ€^/» JrTfj^/^^ f€'A/r^ ff^y/f /rf^e /^^^^^ //i m^ Mayor H. H. ROSE Chief Engineer - WILLIAM MULHOLLAND ASSISTANT Chief Engineer - J. B. LIPPINCOTT OFFICERS AND COMMITTEEMEN OF THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT AND EXPOSITION PARK CELEBRATION COMMISSION OFFICERS president. JOSEPH D. RADFORD TREASURER. FRANK WIGGINS secretary. F B. DAVISON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOSEPH D. RADFORD. Chairman W M. BOWEN M. A. HAMBURGER ROBERT WANKOWSKI A. J. COPP. JR. G. J. KUHRTS PERRY W WEIDNER F B. DAVISON M. C. NEUNER FRANK WIGGINS M H. FLINT H Z OSBORNE F. J. ZEEHANDELAAR FINANCE COMMITTEE M A HAMBURGER. Chairman FRED L BORUFF LOUIS M COLE PAUL SHOUP WILLIS H BOOTH G J KUHRTS PERRY W. WEIDNER F. X. PFAFFINGER SPEAKERS AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE FRANK WIGGINS. Chairman PERCY H. CLARK GEORGE ALEXANDER FRED E. PIERCE H. S, McCALLUM INVITATION COMMITTEE H. Z. OSBORNE, Chairman J. A. ANDERSON MRS. A. S. LOBINGIER WILLIS H. BOOTH JOHN PARKINSON PROGRAM COMMITTEE ROBERT WANKOWSKI. Chairman W, M BOWEN WM D. STEPHENS E W. MURPHY N. W. THOMPSON H C. HUBBARD GARNER CURRAN ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE A. J. COPP. JR . CHAIRMAN JOHN BURR A. W KINNEY JAMES SLAUSON M. H. FLINT R W PRIDHAM B F WOLFF p. M. WRIGHT MUSIC COMMITTEE F. J. ZEEHANDELAAR. CHAIRMAN F, W, BLANCHARD JAMES SLAUSON F. B DAVISON FRED L BORUFF FOUNTAIN COMMITTEE M. C NEUNER. Chairman W M BOWEN JOHN PARKINSON J. F. SARTORI M A HAMBURGER FRED E. PIERCE JAMES SLAUSON G. J KUHRTS R W. PRIDHAM FRANK WIGGINS f Government/il Recognilion The Chamber of Commerce Cum- mittee which represented the City of Los Angeles in Washington. L>. C., 1:^05, and so ably presented the need of"': till (_ 'ity:and the man who listened and grouped that need, and asked the Congress of the I'nited States to grant it. Then the icaters from the Sierras became ours, ami the Aqueduct was assured. 1 Tlieodore Roosevelt. President. ll'O.H 2 W. J. Washburn. Pres. Chamber of Commerce, luor, S J. O. Koepfli. Chairman of Committee 4 \\'illiam Mulholland, Chief Engineer 5 Frank P. Flint. Senator. IMS 6 W. B. Mathews, Aqueduct Attorney T Pronouncement HE dual celebration evidenced herein marks the com- pletion of two great institutions which are without peers in this or any other country. THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT Not since the days of Caesar and the Roman Aqueduct has the world recorded engineering accomplishment aque- ductorial, equal to this great gathering of the waters from the snow-capped peaks of the Sierras and their conduct o'er mountain and plain for a distance of over two hundred miles to the Incomparable City of the Golden West — Los Angeles ! Eight years of ceaseless application of brain and brawn and twenty-four and one-half million dollars, constitute this heroic monument to the ability of man and the devotion of a people. The Los Angeles Aqueduct brings pure mountain water from the main range of the Sierra Nevadas, a distance of two hundred eighteen miles, across deserts and through mountains, in sufficient quantity to supply a city of two million inhabitants. It is a gravity system throughout, no pumping plants being required. It will deliver two hundred fifty-eight million gallons, net, every twenty-four hours, into reservoirs nearly one thousand feet above the city. The Los Angeles Aqueduct consists of ninetj'-eight miles of covered cement conduit, forty miles uncovered, twenty- one miles of open canal, twelve miles of inverted siphons, forty-three miles of tunnels through mountains, ten to thirteen feet in diameter, and four reservoirs along the line, each capable of containing three months' supply. This entire work v/as conceived and carried out by Chief En- gineer William Mulholland, assisted by Assistant Chief Engineer J. B. Lippincott and an able staflF. The water power will be utilized in its descent of several thousand feet from its source in eventually producing one hundred twenty thousand horsepower, peak load, of elec- trical energy, which will be used for the City's light and power, and the sale of which will eventually liquidate the bonds and interest of both the aqueduct and electrical plants. The Los Angeles Aqueduct constitutes one of the largest engineering and water transmission accomplishments in the world. EXPOSITION PARK No other city on earth boasts an aggregation of educa- tional, athletic, amusement and military institutions equal to those contained in that charming area known as Exposi- tion Park, situated in the heart of the City of Los Angeles. A monument to the tireless, sacrificial devotion of one man to a principle. Exposition Park, an asset of the State of California, valued at three million dollars, stands today for a permanent exposition of the resources and industries of the great State of California ; it stands for the historical and art past, present and future of Los Angeles, and it stands for the military arm of our country ; for in this park are three great modern, fireproof buildings, each costing a quarter-milhon dollars, for the housing of these interests. Two athletic fields grace this park — one for children, cov- ering seven acres, and the other for adults, covering forty acres ; each to be equipped with appliances which mark per- fection in modern playgrounds. Here, too, are sunken gardens, fountains, a speedway unexcelled, grandstands, an area set apart for annual agri- cultural and industrial fairs, greenhouses and other fea- tures, built or contemplated in the plan for the installation of this Pride of Los Angeles. Two special days were dedicated to the ceremonies touch- ing the consummation of these two projects ; the first in the beautiful San Fernando Valley at the mouth of the Aque- duct, where the water was turned on, for the first time, with appropriate ceremonies, and the second in the city, where special attractions were presented, making it so pleasant and profitable as to compel the tarrying of guests and visitors for a season. To the formal opening of these two great institutions we owe this opportunity of presenting you and the world this commemoration. LOS ANGELES CELEBRATION COMMISSION Secretary To the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce A Tribute THE enduring, monumental works of history which mark the epochs of progress can ever be traced to some power great enough to dream, or grasp, a vision, and strong enough to give it being. Such great works are the Panama Canal and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, two world-famed engineering accomplishments which the year Nineteen Hundred Thirteen has given to history. The one, greatest of its kind in all history, is world-famed as the accomplishment of an incomparable Nation. The other now takes such place in history as the accomplishment of an incomparable City. It heralds a world of greater achievement and resulting glory. The ripple of its waters from the snow-capped Sierras will be, till time is not, a silver-tongued seraph, singing the praise of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce — that body of men known and writ- ten in every clime because of things accomplished — which nursed the infant thought, clothed it with the mantle of approval, shielded it from design, and failed it not in any hour of need through growing years of seeming vicissitudes. To no other agency is due equal thanks for this great work. 1 Joseph I). Radford, (7KfuiH a reality, carrying pure niou7itain waterfront crest to crest, on and on, to the threshold of the Great City Froiii till' Mountains to the Sea in (III Hour 11 lie re else do l/ic confincx (i/' II shigli' liniir cum /)(' II xa I r -,iil/i a dip ill I lie xiirf, II drive lliroiin/i ii xcorld "J J I' II i / K " " '/ ./' " "' erx , under tlie influence oj limitlesx xuiixliiiie , li> n hiiltle nfxmni: hiillx iniiotig the eloudx? '♦' -7 ''"^^T**5> ''' ^^«» f^ •♦ A section of the eleven foot pipe of ptoxperity crossing Solediiil Can- yon Postoffice Receipts ihic case I.us If Sam's rcrd 'if Aiigdcs (7 (';/ ///( The World Our Growth | 1890 $ 97.754 27 1895 177.911.04 1900 258.047.28 1905 719.023.13 1906 850.579.01 1907 1.039.547.51 1908 l.089.49;!.04 1909 1.276.(;64.07 1910 1.476.941.52 1911 1.646.601.84 1912 1.906,518.68 V ^ %, The Uahcee Reservoir One of the four .storage reservoirs, seven and one- half miles long xcith an average depth of forty - five feet, holding its part of a suppli/ of u-ater for (I citfi of one million peo- ple for a ichole year with- out drawing upon other resources 1 ,111)11 II liajiiHii iiiniiil ]i»]nni| I II II II II II II II NH u ,,111111 III! II 11 II MH. r . 'Jiiiniiiii iiiMiKHte " * l'**>!llt!| jillllllllH I Ltis Angeles Hibei-nitin Savings Bank IMS Angeles > Trust and Sarlngs Binik Bank Clearings The Los Angeles Bank Barometer Our Growth 1890 $ 1895 1900 1906 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1 36,019,721 57,046,832 113,766.378 479,985,293 678,635.517 581,870.627 505.588.756 673,165.728 811,377.487 943,963,357 ,168,941,700 City and County Roads Four hundred miles of perfect roads lure the motorist to a ceaseless charm zchich lurks throughout the orange, the olive, and the eucalijptus groves, over au-e- inspiring mountain ranges, into deep canyons, and along the sea- shore (if Los Angeles County iU^!!- ■ ^J ti^MP» • *>-'^'. »fi'^^ '■i- ^^m'^ ^'' 1^ r>-.^ i' r .- , Nl^tepALAPPROACH T O SAN DIEGO EXPQ51T ION [ " We.shcard Ihe coiirxe of Empire'^ has a xiaiff. Los Angeles, Ihe Gate- xciit/ to the great nine- teen fifteen expositions, has a movement all its oicn. " ('ome and see! Saint Peter's, Rome, nor the Cathedral at Cologne, nor yet Notre Dame, hath the quiet, re.itful gran- deur i\f the Missions of Southern California in and arouud Los Angeles Oin- Parks Four llionxinid rcxlj'iil p(t lit iicrc.s greet the /kixIxw/iocdiiic mill seeiiiiiliire (■(iiii/iiered, iiiiiiiinllij jiiirks -chose .setiii-tropiriil trees mill eleniiil -cCenr- "'A' of the green" ooze lieiilt/i and /iii/)/)iiirss iii- eessiinlhj Santa Fe V17 That which Los An