Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-23
of Redondo, eating his fish dinner in oil
sorts Of dishes.

of Redondo, eating his fish dinner in all
sorts of dishes.
THE GRAND HOTEL.
The HERALD reporter spent hali an
hour looking over the new hote', ,whlch Is
now nearly completed. LIS main
features have been described before In
these columns. i,
A general description is that the hotel
| is ali wings. 1t is traversed everywhere
| by long, broad halls or corridors. Va
each side of these the rooms are so ar
ranged that there is not dark room In
the hotel. Neither is there one not we'll
ventilated, nor one that does not afford
magnificent view of the sea, or OF the
surrounding country. The rooms are
fitted up with all possible convenlences,
including baths, hot and cold water, and
freplaces. The mantels and wood work
are finished in the best style OF art.
Besides the sleeping apartments there
are dining rooms for all sorts of pur
poses. The large dining room seats 3OC
guests. 1t is a magnificent room with
high arched ceilings, fneI hard finish
splendidly lighted and with charming
views of all points. A guest cannot sit
down in the room where he will
not enjoy superb marine view
Thereis also balcony for musicians te
discourse sweet strains while banquet
may be in progress.
Corresponding with the dining room
on another eide of the house is the bal
room. 1t is about the same size as the
dining room, and much the same in form
1t may be entered from the main floor o.
| from the upper one. The floor is all o
hard inlaid woods.
There are cosy little breakfast rooms
and children's dining room. There il
BARRIERS shop with baths attached.
The kitchen and it's accessories are al
perfect as modern skill can make things
1t is marvellous, the multiplicity of ap
pliances necessary in modern cuisine
There is not only the big range, bat there
are steaming tables, a sand oven TO
pastry and hundred things which th'
reporter could not even guess at the US
| of.
The laundry is as perfect. Their
are washing machines, centrii
ugal drying machines, ironing ma
chimes, soap boilers, dryers AM
a complicated system that make
one laugh involuntarily when we thinl
of an old-fashioned washtub and board
A guest can send his linen in, and il
two hours have it all returned in perfec
cleanliness.
The cold storage room is another de
partment makes one realize what
complicated yet simple thing the mod
ern way of living is. Here are half
hundred compartments, where milk
meat, butter, ice.cream and scores @
other things are kept entirely distinct
and as cold IS the North Pole. The ic,
chests hold ten tons of ice.
So one goes over this great caravansar,
and at each point he is met by some
thing new to astonish him. From the
time he enters the lobby, with it's ele
CANT finish in hard wood and it's charm
ing view of the bay, until he reaches the
top of the tower, whence he can see fa
out to sea on one side. and on the othel
the tops OF snow-capped peaks, he finds
everything perfect and everything de
lightful in its way.
The power house with it's fine engine
it's electric dynamos, and two Hazeltor
tubular boilers, is apart from the rest O.
the building. The main hall on the
Ulrich, of the Del Monte hotel at Mon
terey, has been down laying out the
grounds. He is by far the greatest genius
result of his plans will be very beautiful
In the area behind the hotel there il
already growing fine date palm Of mag
nifcent growth, shipped down from the
gardens of Captain Ainsworth's fine
place in Oakland.
OTHER MATTERS.
Ground was broken last week just ives
of the hotel grounds for large bricl
block, to be erected by the company a
once. 1t will have frontage of 144 feet
and will be two stories in height
Below will be eight stores, one of which
will be used as banking Office by the
company. Upstairs will be used al
offices or rooms. There is a pretty bricl
ediice already built, into which tht
company will at once remove thei
offices from Los Angeles. There is alst
new building used for Car shops ant
an engine-house by the track. A mum
Der of cottages are being built about tn
town.
| The steam schooner Point Iona cam
to the wharf yesterday while the peopl
were looking on. She brought loa'
of redwood timber for the lumber var
at Redondo. The freight handled on tn
wharf averages 100 tons day.
A few days ago the Los Angeles, on
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's stesmers, landed at Redond
wharf with perfect ease. although sh
had to pass several landing places abov
because of the weather.
The company is planting great man
trees about the townsite.
The new hotel will be opened about th