Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-09-06

commodations and Improve
nents-A Delicious seashore Oil
mate.
EDIToR HERALD;-Now that the new
syndicate have bought the lands and
properties Of the American Colony and
willmore City. aud inaugurated a new
order OF things, or. In other words,
changed the name Of this delightful re.
sort TO Long Beach and pushing things
generally, il struck the writer that your
readers would appreciate few lines re.
lating to it. The situation as a seaside
resort cannot be surpassed. The dis
tance to Los Angeles is twenty-five
miles; to Compton. ten miles; West.
minister, nine miles; Downey City, SIX
teen miles, and fourteen miles to Ana.
helm. The street car line runs TO the
railway from Los Angeles. to Whining
ton and San Pedro, distance Of three
miles, and makes close connection with
the trains. Tssre is also good wagon
reads leading 10 all the towns
aud settlements of the Santa Ann val
ley. The beach is undoubtedly the fin-
est one for bathing and driving on this
coast between the one immediately
south OF Acapulco and the mouth of the
Columbia. For distance OF eight miles
the beaten and packed sand along the
edge of the surf makes road as smooth
as a floor for carriage drives, while the
gently sloping sand bottom enables the
Dathers to wade out two to three hum
dred feet into the water before coming
In contact with the combing surf. From
this fact and the fact that there is no
undsrtow children are perfectly safe TO
baihe alone as they are constantly being
washed ashore instead Of being drawa
out into the deep water. As l write
there are thirty or forty little ones
ambling in the foaming surf, as it slides
up the gentle plane towards the hotel,
while the older ones are out bounding
and plunging under the combiDg surf
two or three hundred feet from shore.
The new hotel. under the management
of Frank Miller aud his sister, Miss
Alice r., is in California parlance,
daisy. The building is built on the edge
OF the bluff bank OF the mesa, some two
hundred feet from the edge OF the water
at low tide, and on tho sea front is five
stories In height. The first two stories
being occupied as bath and dressing
rooms for the bathers. The front facing
the park aud the mesa is three stories
which, with the two lofty turrets or Gu
polas at each end, present very impos-
ing appearance from any approach. On
the top of the building there Is an OBJ
servatory or promenade Of some eighty
feet by sixteen in width which affords y
magnificent view in clear day as well
as in n dark night. During the day a
splendid view eau be had of the vessels
lying in the roadstsad and harbor of
Wilmington and San Pedro rs well as
tho suburban towns Of Los Angeles, and
along down the Santa Ana valley. A
magnificent view can be had OF the Sierra
Madres, Cucamonga, the snow capped
Cucamonga, Old Baldy and Mount San
Bernardino, as well as the island of
Catalina in clear day. The trains
coursing up and down the valley on the
San Pedro, Santa Monica and Santa Ana
roads, can be traced for many miles
from this elevated point. In dark
night the lights from the shipping at
San Pedro and in the 0ffing are very
seen, whila the white and red
flash light Of Point Firmin lighthouse,
out on tho point beyond San Pedro. are
very conspicuous. AT the same time the
lights from the electric light masts of
I "a. Anualoo sho,., NJ, 80 hr, M, ,tlx, tha,r
hardly look to be more than five miles
away. This hotel has all the modern
of speaking tubes from
every floor, with excellent facilities for
exit in case of fire. One Of the most
prominent and pleasing features is a
porch fronting the beach twenty feet in
width and eighty feet in length, on the
third and fourth stories, strong enough
to support a thousand people at time,
with u broad stairway at each end to
get down TO the baths or the beach.
There are, all told, one hundred and
thirty rooms in the house. Fifty rooms
are occupied with guests already, while
forty-seven Of them are occupied as
bathrooms in the two lower stories.
They have fine French range and ex.
cellent facilities, when they get the ad-
dition to the kitchen complete, to cook
for more people than the house will
hold. The house is furnished with the
same kind of furniture and carpets as
the Palace Hotel in San Francisco,
while the tableware and other fixtures
are in keeping. The tables are supplied
with the best the market affords, and
when it is known that Frank Miller of |
the Glenwood, at Riverside, presides, |
with his colored walters, nothing more |
need be said as. to the manner in which |
it is served, or the treatment Of patrons
of the house. As it is kept now it is |
beyond doubt one Of the finest eating |
places on the Coast. This place is con-
nected with your city by telephone, and |
it will not be long until telegraph, |
post and express offices will be |
opened here. Mr.. w, w. Lowe, |
d. w. Fletcher and Waite and |
Marsh, carry on the three general mer-
chandse stores Of the place, while Mr..
Il. Hewitt keeps q butcher shop. The
Bay View House. the only hotel here
before the one just described was built, |
is kept by Mr.. J. II. Smith. A petition
has been sent in for new school district
for this place and by this time next year
there will be new school house built |
large enough for hundred scholars. A |
school will BIO kept here this winter by |
private subscription. There has been |
wonderful improvements made here |
within the last year. Several cottages
have been erected during the past year
costing from five hundred to three thou |
sand dollars. and two more will soon be |
built costing four and five thousand dol
lars each. Among the new residences
will be noticed those of Judge X. M. |
Widney, Nj. Fl. LaFetra, DR.. Biart, |
Surgeon of the Uni)ed States Army, |
who is on a furlough for his health, and
after looking the country over is content |
with Long Beach, VIM. Lacy. cashier
OF First National Bank, DIR. Clark Whit |
tier, Of Riverside and st. Louis, Mo-,
DR.. j. z. Widney, VIM. Collwell of |
Orange, s. A. Widney, Mr.. VIM. Dods-
worth, of the pork packing company, Fl.
G. Austin, formerly Register Of the U. |
\. Land Office. Mrs. s. b. Montgomery
OF Pasadena, Mr.. Brown, Engineer Of |
the s. p. r. r., Mr.. Cook, Mr.. Lowe
and several whose names are not obtain
able Just now. There has been several
lots sold of late to parties who have
means and will erect very cost
ly places the coming season. The i'm
provements of the park and lawn in front
of the hotel are progressing as rapidly as
possible, and already begin to assume
proportions. The abundant supply of
fresh, soft water for bathing and irriga-
lion which is brought from the artesian
wells three miles distant in iron pipes, is
a pleasing feature to this model seaside
resort, and will with its rich friable soils
soon make it beautifully shaded garden
spot like that of Riverside and Pasadena.
Here amid cultivated. refined, and edu-
Gated people, where it is summer the year
round, the invalid and pleasure seeker
can regale themselves in the balmy
breozes and not be molested or crowded
by the drunken night brawler or the
beastly element that are so conspicuous
at some of our eastern seaside resorts,
where the drunken rabble make night
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