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

on improvements at Redondo Beach,
and they are but at the initial of their
grand enterprise. Fortunately their
resources are practically in
and they are embarked in
an enterprise which, though requiring
large OUTLAWS, will inevitably be accom-
panied by large returns, not only to the
bank accounts of these lion-hearted
apostles OF development, bat to the Sec
ton which they have made the bene-
Hciary Of their great work.
THE MRssRs. ArNswoRTH AND THOMPSON
Few names on the Pacific Coast are
better known than those of the Messrs.
Ainsworth and Thompson. The creation
of the great Oregon Navigation and
Transportation Company was their work,
and they sold it out to Willard at good,
round price, in which millions were no
object to the purchaser. They have been
specially instrumental in the building up
Of Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, Cali
fornia. They have now taken hand in
the exploitation OF our charming southern
country. In their past career they
have shown that they have
that Midas touch which turns
everything to gold, and far better
than that, in addition to gold, there has
been the charming accompaniment in
their successful careers, of sections made
to realiss their utmost possibilities. They
have been together in their busi-
ness operations for twenty-five years,
and they are only not the
Cheeryble Brothers Of Dickens be-
cause they are not bound to-
gether by any ties Of blood. Their alb.
solute trust and confidence in each other
is thing to gladden. the heart of pes
simist. They are both pretty well up in
years, Captain Ainsworth being 81, while
Captain Thompson is 20, but there is no
reason why both of them should not live
for twenty or thirty years yet. Emperor
Wilhelm and Field Marshal Won Wrangel
had no prescription of old age. Neither
had the Count de Wsldeck, who, earning
his living as painter at 100, and skip
ping upstairs before an astonished and
distinguished Partisan journalist, told
that dszed individual that he never in
tended to die-that he was slowly eter-
nalizing himself. Their time has not
come for this eternalizing process, as
they ara live American business men, full
of vitality and vitalizing projects, little
up in years, but not ready to acknowledge
that they are yet old by blamed sight,
and nobody who yesterday saw them
stepping lightly over the as yet il.com-
plete hotel, and up and down the stair
way leading down to the beach, which
recalls the grand staircase of Versailles,
would think of calling them old.
These gentlemen, who have done so
,,oI, fDr thia CDook md ubo NON,
doing, and contemplating the doing, Of
SO much for Los Angeles, though of diff
ferent types, are both stfikingly hand
some men, and as gay and full of life as
veritable boy s-a fact which is probably
explained by their having been nautical
if not naughty men. They told the
writer that they regard the work which
they are engaged upon now ss their mon
ument. They are in no hurry
about any immediate returns upon
their investment. They look upon
the future Of Los Angeles with a
warm and ssgacious faith which would
make cold usurer retire into his shell
forever, dismaved at such enterprise and
confidence in the outcome Of section.
Captain AinsTorth has a psachdat for
flowers. He has had nursery of floral
treasures incubating at 1nglewood for
over a year past. The other day he
ordered the whole plant down to Redondo
Beach. He has confeseedly, at Oak.
land, the most beautifully ornamented
place in the State. He has had up there
landscape gardener and four assistants
at work for year past preparing floral
and arboral treasures for the ornaments.
ton of Redondo Beach and its unrivaled
hotel.
1t would be hard to overestimate the
offices for good these gentlemen are doing
for this city and section, in which they
have belief as vital and aggressive as
that Of the HERALD itself. We could
write column upon column upon sub
ject of which we are full to overlooking,
but we feel that we have reached the
limits OF reasonable article.