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4 LA REINA LOS ANGELES IN THREE CENTURIES

Amid the surroundin g hustle and bustle of the cAnglo-Saxon th e atmosphere of Old Spain
persists at the Plaza and th e Church of Our Lady th e Queen of the cAngels

one else down. When a man makes money there the community does not combine
to break him or even to demonstrate that his father robbed a church or that his
grandmother was sent to the penitentiary for shop-liftmg. The Angelenos seem to
believe-incredible as it may seem- that a man may grow rich without deserving to
be hanged."
But before going further let us look at the background of this young city that
is as old as attained American independence, that had been in existence more than
a half century when Chicago was incorporated and that celebrated its centennial the
same year that Garfield was shot.

Los cAngeles in 1853 from official report of railroad survey made to the th en S ecretary
of W ar Jefferson Davis This is the first known sketch of th e City.