, 1886-03-04
A Novel and Deserving Project.
ALASKA AND CALIFORNIA.

s. F. Hotel Gazette Of Feb aOth.I
A corporation is now organizing
for the purpose of building and oper-
ating two hotels, The Loring" at
Riverside, California, and "The
Riverside" at Eoring, Alaska.
AS something unique in the science
OF hotel keeping, we give the original
promoters views as detailed to us,
and though almost staggered at the
novelty of the scheme, must concede
a possibility of success.
Mr.. Max Pracht, manager of the
Alaska Salmon Packing & Fur com
pany of Loring, Alaska, has just re-
turned from visit TO Riverside, the
beautiful, where in connection with
Mr. @. o. Perrine, a Chicago capt.
alist, of maple sugar fame, and MIR.
II. j. Rundisill, q large landowner
and orange culturist, of Riverside,
the project was talked over and a
plan of operations adopted.
About three miles from Riverside,
and nearly the same distance from
Arlington, its aristocratic ncighbor
and rial, backing up against peak
of local fame, and overlooking the
valley of the Santa Ana, from an
elevation of several hundred feet,
lies gentle sloping plateau of about
two hundred acres, commanding a
distant view of the snow-clad peaks
of San Jacinto, San Bernardino, Old
Grayback and Cucamongo. This
tract is to be laid out into veritable
Citrus Park, with abundant drives
and walks, and noble avenue simi-
lar to the celebrated Magnolia Avenue
connecting Riverside and Arlington,
with the noble proportions of "The
Loring" looking down its tree girt
vista upon the new station of the
California Southern Railroad in
Riverside. its intended terminus.
Every desirable and correct feature
in hotel improvements and attrac-
tions is to be embodied IN the de-
signs for 1.-The Loring," specially
is to be made of family cottages, and
the concert hall, complete with
necessary stage accessories, is to be
detached from the main building.
and equally well adapted for dancing
anu roller skating. It will be at a
sufficient distance from the hotel
proper, SO that those guests who are
naturally or physically disbarred from
participating in these enjoyments,
nesd not be annoyed thereby.
Nearly two thousand miles away.
on the shores of the most enhancing
and romantic of all Alasks's waters,
an emerald gem, set In diamonds
which glisten from the crowns of
her triune encircling mountains, lies
Naha Bay, My mothers Bay" as
goes the natives legend, protected
from even the gentle chidings of
Alaska's melifiuous breezes, with its
''armful OF cosy islands," so aptly
described by Miss Weppner, the
celebrated authoress and traveller.
spread out in inviting proximity and
with Fisherman's Point deity con
cealing bnt nearer revealing the
cascade over which rush the pent up
of Lake Adorable, the most enchanting
of all of natures mirross, so named
while Miss Dora Miller in company
with the Senator, her farther, and
her amiable mother, was floating over
Its pellucld bosom, admlrIng the rush
and the flash of the silvery sides OF
countless thousands of salmon, on
their way to the spawning grounds,
the triple lakes, above the falls which
empty the clear cold waters OF Black
Bear River, into the waiting arms of
Lake Adorable.
Near TIE mouth of a rushing and
roaring stream that leaps from its
source, an Inaccessible lake among
the clouds that surround it, thous-
and feet of sheer ascent above the
point where it has worn its way ont
of the rocky walls that sought to
continc it, and tumbles with noisy
glee = hundred feet into the waiting
embrace of the parent waters. there
Is quiet nook called Fresh Water.
Cove, where on 4 gentle moss and