Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-03
A GRAND PLAN OF D DEVELOPMENT.
Much of it Already Achieved and
Immensely Much More to bs

FOr some llIn6 ptSt tuo Wiltcf uhc uccH
promising himself a visit to Inglewood
and Redondo Beach. He was the more
anxious to make the trip, because, on
the turn of the year 1S74-75, he had
been at the sale of Centinela lands ad-
vertised by Mr.. Dan Freeman, who had
but recently bought the magnificent Cen
tinela. Sausal Redondo ranchos from Sir
Francis Burnett, gentleman who had
just then succeeded to Scotch bar
onetcy, and who for years prior to his
accession to that dignity, which called
him home to Caledonia, had used these
prolific lands as a sheep range. In pas
sing, we may remark that the South
down mutton, which 80 agreeably crops
up in Southern California markets, is
due to Sir Francis, who was man de-
voted to fine types Of sheep.
Taking the 9 40 Santa Fe train for Re-
dondo Beach, the scribe, under the guild
ance of Mr.. S. o. Brown, the Vice-Presi
dent and Manager of the Redondo Beach
Company, was quickly whirled out of the
city and, in the Vernon District, on
Wilmington street, the first object of note
encountered was the Los Angeles Sewer
Pipe Company's works. Their plant re-
presents capital and energy and, even in
it's incipient stage, it shows up in goodly
shape. The corporation is now adding a
terra Gotta department to its manufac-
tory. and large pile of beautiful light
colored chocolate clay, brought from El-
sinore, in San Diego county, shows how
rich and ornate it's tile-work will be. We
had time but for glance at this station,
which is not yet named, and the next
manufacturing object of interest was Mr..
Dan Freeman's Continuous Brick Works
"a process by which, it is sufficient to
cay in this connection, you keep digging
out bricks day by day. By this process
Mr.. Freeman is able to make brick by
the untold million at S.. so Thousand,
with an unlimited demand for the article
at So. With short stop we were whirled
through Inglewood, of which more anon,
and finally pulled up at Redondo Beach,
which we had not seen for nearly year.
GRAND VIEW AND A MAGICAL CHANGE.
Probably there is not on earth better
marine view than can be obtained from
thousand coignes of vantage furnished
by the charming conformation of this
| favored spot. From heights back of the
| town the eye sweeps uninterruptedly
| from the Catalina Islands and the islands
of the Santa Barbara channel to the San
with snow. To the northeast Los Ange-
les looms up with a majesty that can
only be realized from the Redondo hills.
| t., ol.akA So ol
and bathing surf nowhere surpassed on
the American continent. The site
selected for the hotel is a COM
manding knoll, the ocean front of which
has been bulkheaded for distance of
| three thousand feet. South of the wharf
the lots have been set apart for the more
! nretentions class of residences, which
will soon abound in Redondo Beach.
On that portion Of this tract immedi-
ately adjoining the hotel, the company
will sell no lots where the purchaser does
not bind himself to put up seaside
villa which assures a certain elegance of
architecture. To facilitate an eclectic
settlement on this portion of the tract,
the company makes discount of 10 per
cent. on schedule prices on the purchase
where $4,000 cottage is to be erected,
20 per cent. where the amount is 5000,
and 80 per cent, where it is $4,000, and
so on. On this exclusive section Of the
tract, they will sell no lots without q
building condition. Two grand ap-
proaches will lead up to the hotel,
which will be up to high
standard Of modern demand. AS bath
ing beach and as a beach drive, it
would be hard to surpass the attrac-
tions of Redondo Beach. The hotel will
be completed and ready for opening by
the Let of August. One of its features
will be brine baths, hot, with cold
brine shower, of saline consistency
equal to that OF the celebrated Salt Lake,
whose efficacy as q tonic and as cura-
tive in liver and kidney diseases and
/, scorbutic affections has become world
wide.
The men Who have taken charge Of the
Redondo Beach Company are capitalists
of note throughout the whole Pacific
Coast. They are Captain George j..
Ainsworth, President, residence, Oak
land; Mr.. S. o. Brown, Vice. President
and Manager; Mr.. r. G. Brewer, Secre-
tary. The principal owners are Captain
J. G. Ainsworth, Oakland, and Captain
R. R. Thompson, San Francisco. These
names will carry confidence throughout
the whole Pacific Coast, standing, as
they do, for great opulence and unim-
peached integrity.
| INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT REDONDo BEACH.
Before we proceed to discuss the bust
ness details OF Redondo Beach, we deem
it fit to note that it has soil unsurpassed
for loamy richness and depth, which
grows alfilerilla to height of foot right
on the brink Of old ocean, and on which
volunteer crops OF barley are now grow.
ing in luxuriance without parallel on
any ocean frontage in the world. The
excavation for the hotel site of itself
shows the depth and fertility of the soil
to striking degree. The air of the Re-
dondo Beach and of it's abutting high
lands is so exquisitely compounded that
it proves an elixir to the consumptive
rescuing him from death. Judge Arson
Brunson, who has commanding lots
on the heights back OF Redondo, and
who proposes to build shortly, has fur
nished, without designing it, remarka-
BILE instance of the rejuvenating effects OF
the Redondo Beach air. He has done
this in the person OF brother, who has
much of the spiritual and intellectual
personality Of the distinguished ex-
Judge, and who came out to die, seeking
to ward off the Black Angel for brief
time, and he is now a comparative stall
wart, busying himself about plans for