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general perfection are unexcelled by any on the continent. Directly before us and to the right stands the building which is the largest office structures in the west. The great pile was erected by Southern California's Electric Railway magnate, Henry E. Huntington as the central station and headquarters of the Inter-Urban System of his Pacific Electric Railway. If is a beautiful specimen on modern fire-proof architecture, and was christened by its builder as the Pacific Electric Building. Its nine floors are a little city in themselves. Its great court is the starting and terminal point for that net-work of electric railways which have linked Los Angeles to ever one of her suburban neighbors. From the summit of the Sierra Madres to the white sands of the Pacific these lines of railway operate, passing through every point of interest in this section of Southern California. The present broad area of this system's operation is being constantly increased, and it is predicted that within a comparatively short time there will be no corner of Southern California, which cannot be reached from this great building, which even today is not alone the central station of a city, but oh half a State as well. One of the features presented by the Pacific Electric System are its observation cars, which operate to different sections about Los Angeles. One carries the passenger down along the shores of the Pacific, another whirls him through the orange groves, a third visits the famous and historic San Gabriel Mission with its well preserved relics of early California, a fourth shows the wonder of Los Angeles itself, while a fifth carries its passengers through that most beautiful of cities, Pasadena, up among the foothills to charming Altadena, and then disdaining the

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