Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-09

the Union yesterday. This is the 41st
star added to our national banner.
REDONDO BEACH.
A Port Which IL Growing Up with.
out Government Aid-What Two
Men Are Doing to Give Los Ange-
les q Flashing watering Place
and shipping Faciiities-A Wharf
which Runs OuS to Fifty. -four
Feet OF Clear Water-A Hotel
without a Superior-The MOnu-
ment Which the OriginatOrs of
the OREGON Navig alton Company
Are Erecting for Themsclves.
Few of the inhabitants of Los Angeles
realize today that great business center
and watering place are growing up at
Redondo Beach todsy-thas, to put the
matter Complementary, sort of Front
street, with the glamour of sristocratic
watering place facilities, is being built
within few miles of them, with rail-
way of its own, supplemented by a
branch of the Santa Fe, which of course
includes in its system all lines Of the
California Southern. Yet such Is the
fact. The HERALD, knowing that prob
ably eighty per cent. of the freight re-
ceived in Los Angeles by the ocean now
comes by way of Redondo Beach, yester-
day dispatched reporter to that place to
report progress.
GROWING PORT WITHOUT GOVERNMENT
AID.
Redondo has made great headway of
late. When the representative of the
HERALD last visited that place there was
talk of a coming great hotel, and the
twenty-five acres which had been allot-
ted for that purpose had been slightly
graded. There was also some grading
for narrow gauge railway, which it was
understood the Messrs. Ainsworth and
Thompson we're to build to Los Angeles.
There were also the buildings incident
to place in which great improvements
were to take place. Trees and shrubs
had been set out, which have since
thriveu amazingly. Streets had been
marked out, and reservoir was in pro-
cess of constr uction, as was a wharf, and
that was about all. The plan, as roughly
outlined, was imposing, and 1t might or
| might not, be accom- plished satisfactorily,
would have been the conclusion of the
ordinary visitor.
On his visit yesterday he found mag.
ical change. The wharf was already out
10 q depth OF fifty four feet and was to be
pushed six belts further to depth of
1 E.rA fank ~
could see clear to the bottom. A schooner
was discharging lumber on to cars labeled
"San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern Rail-
way" which shows that the modest aud
unpretentious port of Rsdondo is already
doing business for our San Diego "back
country" He learned that, in addi-
ton to lumber schooners and
other sailing vessels. the steam
ers Eureka, Los Angeles and Santa
Maria were discharging regularly at the
wharf. and that where the matter was
OF sufficient importance to demand expe-
dition, freight was sometimes delivered
at the wharf and landed IN Los Angeles
within two hours Of its arrival at this
new and promising port. He found, be-
sides, that a railway had been already
completed by the Messrs. Ainsworth and
Thompson to the Agricultural Park, that
they had purchased complete equip.
ment OF cars and running stock, aud
that morning and evening train was
even now being run over the road. In
addition, he learned that they had So
cured cable road franchise to the heart
Of the city, which might or might not be
converted into franchise to run over it
their dummy engines, which are without
noi'e or smoke.
This was by no means all he saw. The
hotel hiss already made such progress as
to disclose it's splendid proportions, No
detailed attempt will be made at a des
cription of this hotel in this issue. The
edi6ce will be unique and exquisite.
quite up to the standard of either the
Hotel Del Monte or the Coronado, and
will possess number of features which
are superior to both. The same lavish
but judicious expenditure which has
characterized all the operations of these
gentlemen is to be noted in the details of
this grand caravansary. 1t will be a
downright vision of beauty when 1t ia
completed. One striking feature of il
already admits Of note. It Is a grand
staircase, leading down to the beach, of
| cement, which recalls the magnificent
approaches of the national Capitol or the
Patent Office, the effect being really
greater because it 10 much more extensive.
There Is something absolutely classic and
peculiar about it, and it is hint of the
extreme elegance which will characterize
all the appointments of this superb
resort.
Already bath-house has been erected
which is more complete in its appoint
ments than any other establishment OF
the kind on the Pacific Coast, and it will
be extended. The plans embrace
arcsdee, with booths, which will admit,
while the trees are growing, of visitors
tinding ample shade and convenient
hooks for dispatching lunches. In this
connection It. should be remarked that
trees have been planted on q thorough
scale, and that they show signs Of a
vigorous growth. The configuration Of
the country around Rsdondo Beach adj
mits OF highly artistic ornamental effects.
Very soon the task Of beautifyinp the
place will not be confined to the enter
prieing projectors, many Of our wealthiest
and most refined people having indi-
Gated their intention TO build elegant cot
tages. Up to date, the Messrs. Aims.
worth and Thompson have spent 5000 600
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