Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-24

all parts of the world. Americans take
the lead III numbers, and the English
come next. You meet Americans at all
points. They go about in scores. Some
of them go over every season. / met
three, five, eight and more years. MANY
Americans live 10 Europe, and merely
visit their native land on business.
Climate is large part of the attraction
| to them. There are many considerations
to draw them thither. Sightseeing,
pleasure, comfort, art, gambling and
what not. Europe is beautiful. / can.
describe to you such places as Lake
Maggiore, or Nice, or Monte Carlo.
They are SO beautiful. They all have
fine hotels, fine roads, beautiful parks,
or woods outside the town. The roads
are smooth as a floor and hard as a flag.
There is not rut in ten miles of road,
and you do not get bit of dust in days
driving. Besides the Americans and
English, there are many Russians and
Germans. Why the Russians come to
Wiesbaden, because tits a little less severe
in climate than in their own country.
But at Wiesbaden it is cold-very cold
There is Montreux, in Switzerland. The
season opens there about October, yet as
early as that the snow is knee-deep.
But tourists from the far north flock in
there in October. The climate is
mild compared with the rigors of their
own homes"
eyes, our climate is by all means
much better than any l found
during my visit to Europe. The
only thing comparable to the
weather in Southern California that l
experienced is in Italy, but even that at
it's best ranks far below--ours. Here the
winters are snowless and frostless, and
the summers are temperate to such de-
gree that prostration from the heat is
absolutely unknown. Even invalids
bear our hottest summer weather and
feel no oppression, while the most deli
cate systems need very little protection
from our coldest winter weather. If it
depended on climate alone we would have
all the tourists of the world. But with
the great mass of the people who
travel, climate is secondary consider
alton. Pleasure and comforts are the
first. Of course if a place has both at
fractions combined, then it will outdraw
all rivals. If we had the many other ad-
vantages of the Riviera added to the
great attraction of our climate, we would
draw thousands to this place all seasons
of the year. Where the other attractions
exist, then the consideration of eli
mate becomes paramount. To supple
ment our climate we must have
the other attractions. We need good
hotels. They ought to be built by public
enterprise. They may not pay directly
at first; but as means of drawing tour
lists here they will pay manifold profits
to the general community. Every mer-
chant, every tradesman, every banker
and the farmers in the country will be
greatly benefited by visitors who come
here and spend more or less time. Next
to pleasant hotels with all modern con-
veniences come good roads. If the city
and country will not construct at least
one good road, then private enterprise
should step in and do it. We
need broad, we'll macadamized
road from the centre of the
city to the beach at Santa Monica. That
should be sprinkled every day. Itwould
be we'll to have more than this, but this
is necessity and ought to be done at once.
Then the city should have a good park
somewhere. You talk about the Riviera
why, every little town of 1000 to 5000
people has it's park inside or its forests
around it. Ali the large places have
beautiful parks. And all over the country
from one town to another the roads are
perfect. They are all aligned
with beautiful trees, that tower
up, and spread out their branches until
these inte1lace overhead.
"And other places are getting ahead OF
US in this respect. The Hotel del Monte
at Monterey attracts people from all parts
of the East. 1t has fine piece OF wood
around it, and good roads run through
this. The climate of Monterey is not
equal to that of Los Angeles but, as
told you, climate will not avail alone.
Then there is the Coronado at San Diego.
That hotel will make a name for
our neighbor to the south which
will be known all over the land.
Los Angeles must not rest on her oars.
She must not imagine the battle is Won.
To attract the right sort of visitors to this
place we must provide better accommo-
dations, and more attractions, People
will not 60 from home to any place where
they do not find first class accommoda-
tions, all the conveniences incident to
modern life, and the comforts they are
accustomed to in their own homes"
So interesting and so prolific is this
subject, that the HERALD will take the
matter up tomorrow and give more of
Mr.. Newmark's s views.
A New Industry.
The United States Mating Company
of New York, with a capital stock OF
s25O. 600. was formed for the purpose of