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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1850.
A Unique and Handsome city,

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1889.
A Unique and Handsome city
Los Angeles has progressed far
enough to disclose the fact remarkably
handsome city is about to be built up
here. Some of our public buildings are
of notable elegance if not originality.
There is no city hall that we can recall
that surpasses our own in unique grace.
OF course there are larger buildings,
some Of them costing ten times the
amount that ours has cost, but the facade
of the Fort-street edifice surpasses them
nearly all, and the interior finish is
unique and striking, the wsinscots Of
variegated Georgia marble being an ex-
quisite conceit. The new Court House,
which is approaching completion, will
enjoy a notable distinction. In these
two public edifces there is powerful
gauge of battle thrown down to
the Connecticut brown sandstone
by two of our local stones,
viz, the Sespe, which is largely
used in the City Hall, and the Flagetaff,
which is even more profusely employed
in the Court House. For ornamental
work admitting both of intaglio and re.
lievo designs, the Sespe stone is inde-
scribably fine, and, in our judgment, it
eurpasses the Connecticut brown stone,
the finest example of the latter on the
Coast being the chaste and handsome
residence of the late Mr.. j. G. Flood, on
Mob Hill.
In some Of our business blocks we
have achieved striking results. On q
recent visit to Los Angeles. Gov. Stan
ford told Gen. E. E. Hewitt and mum.
Der of other gentlemen that, in his iudg-
ment, the Bryson-Bonebrake block was
the handsomest edifice of the kind which
he had seen, either in Europe or Amer
lea. Though its style is bizarre, it has
many features of notable beauty
and attractiveness. The entrance is
certainly the handsomest one we have
seen in the United States. The Cotton
marble of the pilasters which support the
arch are of rare aud unique beauty.
Though of different style from the
Georgia marble, they are of equal if not
greater brilliarce of coloring. Some of
our other business blocks are notable in
many ways, there being nothing in San
Francisco approaching them in. elegance.
The block at the corner of Second and
Fort streets, comprising the Bank oi
California and the Young Mems Christian
Association, which will shortly be sup
plemented by the Griffith block in pro-
cess of erection. are unusually fine ex.
amples of the architecture adapted to
such works.
But it is in the residence quarters of
Los Angeles that such triumphs of light,
graceful and aerial art have been
achieved. Not relatively but absolutely
there are more supremely elegant private
residences in Los Angeles than in San
Francisco. OF course we have moth
ing to rival the half dozen palaces on
Mob Hill. One of these, ths built by
Mark Hopkins, is the handsomest house
in the United States, and in it's interior
appointments it has few rivals anywhere.
But while we have no residences in Los
Angeles upon which hundreds of thous-
ands, tosay nothing of millions of dollars,
have been spent, there is scarcely a
limit to the number of exquisite homes.
Here the ability to beautify extensive
grounds yields gracious effects, which are
unattainable in San Francisco. Such
wealth of tree, shrub and fora are avail.
able here that an effect infinitely greater
than that attainable by the mere ex-
penditure of money in crowded thorough
fares is produced.
So handsome city has Los Angeles
already become that it is great pity
that 30 few of our visitors take the
trouble to see it thoroughly. 1t is no
trifing task to get over city that covers
thirty-six square miles. 1t has many
striking quarters, but the Indications are
that the hills to the west, Figueroa and
intersecting streets, and West Los An.
geles generally, will be the leading fashion
able sections, although both East Los
Angeles and Boyle Heights are rapidly
developing attractions that are leading
great masses of the best elements of |
BUR social life in their direction.
II Los Angeles shall continue to i'm
prove during the next decade, archi.
lecturally, as she has in the past, a PAN
Drama of indeecribsble beautv will ha
ihfolded in her lovely groves and alame-
las. Any fair man who will 90 thor
'ughly over the place will recognize her
claims now to exceptional and almost
beauty. But the favorite
ashton Of the ordinary Visitors to the
ity of Los Angeles is to sit around the
hotels, and form their impressions OF the
'lace by partial and fractional obserya.
ion.
Production and Prosperity,
N an intarviaw with a nawuDonar rox II