Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-05-29
.JnmbO in the Surf.


 DEAR CITIZEN: Just think of it, a whole week at the sea side. with the old Pacific for bath tub! What a treat. One can appreciate dip m the briny waves, and the luxury of plen'y Of water after two years soiourn in the Quij -l toas.
 Santa Monica is improving wonder fu'ly this spring. The building boom has struck the place with a vengeance From early dawn until late at night, the sound of the csrpenter's bsmmer and saw keep time 10 the everlasting music of the waves, making ready ab des for the expected rush this season. Cottages of every description, size and style, are sprInging up like magic; but the biggest tang in tue building line Is J. W. Scon's hotel, "rhe Arosdia," which has froL'- age of 226. by 72 feet deep. at the widest point IL IS three stories high on the Ocean Avenue, or ls nd front, and i've stories on the sea front.
 On the first floor are the hot salt water baths, dressing rooms, barber shop, engine room, bowling alley. chil- dren's play room, aud ball room 3SX56 feet.
 On the second story ere the servants rooms, store rooms, and, with the excep- ton of kitchen, the entire culinary de- partment, and a billiard room 3SX72 feet.
 The third story on the sea front. which Is the first story on Ocean Avenue, contains an office 44I32 feet, dining room, Ax7S feet, chiidren's dInIng room, servants dining room, kitchen, parties, parlor 1SIi4 feet; gentlemen's reading room ladies billiard room and private parIurs; also ten sleeping rooms
 The fourth aud fifth stories are all bed rooms and private p.rlors-
 There are one hundred and twenty rooms for guests and every one a front room, fronting either on the ocean or on the street.
 On the ocean Avenue front there is a porch one hundred and eighty six feet | long, part of 1t eighteen, and part of II twenty four feet wide. On the ocean side there are tive porch es; each one hundred and eighty-siI feet Iong, by fourteen feet wide, and s glass enclosed porch. (for stormy westh- eTl, forty-four feet long, and twelve feet wide.
 On the top IS an octsgon shaped tower and observatory twenty feet wide. There are one hundred and eighty five plate glass windows on the ocean side.
 An Otis elevator will run from the first to the fifth floor.
 There is & piece of ground between the land front and Ocean Avenue, that IS beiug laid out and planted in flowers
 Either electric lights or gas will be used for lighting the hotel and will bt manufactured on the place. The halls, office and public rooms will he heated by steam radiators. and will also have grates, as will the sleeping rooms.
 The contract for 1500 feet of srtifcis stone pavement has been let on Ocean avenue.
 A force of seventy-fve men are al work on the building. Mir. Scott hopes to have bis hotel ready for occupancy b, , the list of August.
 , Tents are being put up by the hun ! drsds on the beach. Also Dumerou ' stands where refreshments both vet snC dry can be procured. Saturdays snC Sundays are the big days of the week ] Every yb0dy comes with "their sisters sn' , tbeIr cousins and their aunts, and hsv } a general good time.
 ' A baby shark, nine inches long, wa ' caught yesterday by some fishermen Il [ a net.
 A small sea lion was captured on th beach one day this week, and is on e1 , hibitIon at the pavilion and it IS literal |. ly the lion of the day. a The reading room, under the suspice b of the Women's Christian Temperanc D Union, is we'll pstronized and IS one O y most attractive features of the village . IL is opposite the postofice. e The Santa Monica Wave, publishe b and edited by A. E. Fay, (well known r Tucson and Tombstone) is spicy littl Y sheet. Mir. Fey and wde have spsr' | mepts at the Santa Moni"s hotel, wit r. hIs office oD the same grounds. 8 Mrs. W. c. Davis. Mrs. Buell., Mir C Muir and Mrs Lillie Anderson, Ca n from your sun kissed city) were part - down on this moring's train, and si
 putting in the day in solid enjoy men s Mrs. Davis and Buell. are visiting Co e, Muirs at East Los Angeles. IS Monday we are of for Long Bescl e where you may again hear from " JUMBO.