Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-02
AN ALL-YEAR CLIMATE.
That OF Los Angeles Even Better In
summer Than Winter.

That of Los Angeles Even Better In
summer Than Winter.
All the hotels in the city are full o
regular or transient visitors. The higf
class boarding houses are doing well
The Raymond, at Pasadena, is full tC
overlowing. At the Coronado there are
800 guests. For this hostlery, Simor
Maier, the butcher, il shipping from this
city meat to the value of 81 900 week
The small hotels in the country are all
full where there are accommodations
comfortable and we'll kept.
Why is this SO? 1t is simply owing to
the fact that about a month ago the
unusually mild winter at the East broke
and the prevailing fine weather gave
place to one of the most severe storms
experienced in years. This drove the
people from their homes in search OF
fine weather where they can oxist in
comfort and not be in hourly danger OF
losing their lives from such severe cold.
Another circumstance which drove
them all here at this time
is that they had no other
refuge at this season. Had the storm
come in December great many of these
climate-seekers might have gone to Flor
ida and gained relief for the time being.
But in February no sane and intelligent
person goes to that peninsula. By the
end of that month or the beginning of
March, the atmosphere there becomes
heavy, muggy and insuferably close and
warm. The invalid must get away or
succumb, and the we'll man finds it better
to brave the rigors of his northern spring
weather than to endure the close, heavy
and hot atmosphere of the Florida coast.
These circumstances have sent great
host Of health hunters and climate-seekers
to California during the past few weeks.
Yesterday these facts were fully uis-
cussed by Mr.. johnson, of the West
minister Hotel, and Mr.. A. III. Denker
Conversation turned OH the Main and
Tenth-street hotel, and, as usual, at the
conc)us was reached without much
argument that what Los Angeles now
needed, above all things, is a caravansary
of the most ample commodiousness, of
the most superb appointments, and of
the most luxurious fittings. With such
a hotel in Los Angeles there would be
1000 guests here all the time. Here are
nearly all the other attractions. Lo3
Angeles has as fine stores as there are in
America, and the materfamilias here
with her family can find as rich supplies
in as large variety and at as reason
able prices as she can in New
York, or Chicago. Here are two first
class theaters at which all the very best
attractions in the country appear. There
is the seashore at accessible distance to
be reached at several points by many
trains day. There are drives and
walks and all means of amusement, and
health.securing.
In discussing the matter later on with
HERALD reporter the conclusion, which
is obvious, was reached, that fine hotel
here would be quite as fully prosperous
in summer as in winter. The general
opinion at the East is that Los Angeles
may be attractive indeed in the winter
on account of its mild climate and not
excessive rainfall, but that in summer
it is rather sultry, and enervating. AS
Mr.. Denker very emphatically asserted
the opposite is the fact. tIf there is
any advantage of one season over
another here it is certainly in favor
of the summer over the winter. For, if
in the winter the temperature varies at
from the freezing point of water as an
extreme now and then touched in the
early morning hours in December or
January, while the general winter range
lies at 45 degrees as the lowest in the
morning before sunrise to go or 65 de-
grees as the midday temperature 80 in
summer, while the upper nineties may be
reached for an hour or 80 in the forenoon
of an exceptionally hot day, yet the
usual summer range is between 20 and
so degrees in what is here regarded as
really warm weather. 1t is also to be
remembered the summer nights here are
delIciously cool, the mercury ranging
usually during bed hours at from 55 to
65 degrees.
Thus the mild winters here draw from
the East when the mercury is frozen in
the bulb, and in summer the same very
moderate temperature would draw away
from the excessive heat of the Gulf and
Lake States if only the facts were as well
understood in regard to the summers of
this section as they are to the winter.
In discussing the matter, Mr.. Denker
and Mr.. johnson fully agreed that great
effort ought to be made to spread abroad
all over the East and South com plete
setting forth Of the attractions of this
section as to summer as we'll as winter
resort.
These are interesting subjects. The
prosperity of the section largely depends
on the building of the hotel and on the
dissemination of knowledge regarding
the climate that makes Los Angeles so
desirable residence or resort. But as
the average citizen reads these consider
ations set forth in words he will prob
ably reflect, as the reporter does who
has IN writa fhan1 for the tb ndth
time, these be brave words and true, but
there are no words 80 sweet or unctuous
that they will bntter any fellows pars-
nips. 1t is we'll to discuss the hotel, and
to descant on the climate, but words will
never build the hotel, nor will any mans
lungs serve to project these words across
the backbone of the continent where
there is SO large and so aching void for
the knowledge they convey. 1t takes
money to build the hotel, and printers
ink is not distributed gratis as usual
rule.