Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-02

proportions, and the city as planned will
set like vast amphitheatre, the shore
line forming veritable arena, but one
Tor gentle pleasure and not the fierce
atrocities that dyed the sands of the
Roman coliseum with human blood.
The views from the townsite are
fascinating beyond the power of
pen to depict them. Seaward
stretches the infinite blue below,
embraced by the infinite blue above.
Far out lie the bold outlines of islands,
set like emeralds in world of sapphire.
East and west great headlands, Point
Vincent and Point Duma, run out into
the waves to shelter the bay on which
Redondo lies from every harsh or hostile
breath that blows. Inland over three
quadrants of the circle rise the noun
tain chains that hem in the valley Of Los
Angeles. Snow peaks rise above the
lesser heights, their topmost crags lost
in the central blue. From the noun
tains to the sea the whole glorious ex-
panse glimmers like sea of emerald in
the .cloudless sun, studded with cities
standing white on the hills. and with
villages nesting in rich orchards and
powered in roses perennial as those of
Postum, famous of old on the shore of
Southern Italy.
The Water Supply.
The next matter to which the Redondo
Company put its vigorous hand was to
provide both the city and the shipping
with ~ plentiful supply of pure water
Here experience counted for something.
Captain Thompson a.dozen years ago set
himself the task of providing the town
OF Alameda, where he then lived, with
w Hn "a
have thought of looking for it. At the
edge of the bay, where the tide ebbs and
flows with it's salt waves, he sank
a number of wells, from which
fresh water rose to the sur
face, clear, sparkling, sweet and pure.
The suggestion was made to count at
Redondo; for close to where the salt
works once stood wells were driven, and
from these an abundance of pure wateris
obtained. This water distills in the
dew and falls in rain or crystal snow on
the tops of the mountains sixty miles
away percolates through their rock ribs
and touches nothing less clean than gran
ite or beds of snowy sand until it
wells up on the beach, sparkling and
clear as ray of sunlight.
The Redondo Company has devel-
oped here a magnificent water system.
There are thirty-two driven wells, two
and one-half inch pipe, perforated at the
lower end. These drive pipes are con-
nected with six-inch iron main, to
which is attached powerful steam
pumps. These pumps have capacity
OF l ,00O, 900 gallons day, and, so far,
have been unable to make any apparent
decrease in the supply in the subterra-
mean natural reservoir. The water is
pumped to cemented reservoir 125 feet
square and 20 feet deep, with capacity
of 3,500,000 gallons. This reservoir is
located at an elevation of nearly 200 feet
above the hotel main floor, thus afford
ing good pressure to the hotel and the
dwelling and business houses of the
town.
How to Get There.
When Captains Thompson and Aims
worth became the owners of the property
at the beach and began their great work
of development, the Santa Fe Railway
Company had already built a line of
standard gauge road from Los Angeles,
via Inglewood, to the beach. They were
operating this branch with a couple of
passenger trains each way daily. But
the Redondo Company proposed to be alb
to be perfectly masters of their own situ-
alton. To this end right of way was
secured and work begun on a rail-
road from Los Angeles to Re-
dondo. 1t was duly incorporated as
the Redondo Railway Company. The
work was pushed with the unhagging
energy that characterizes all the under
takings of the Redondo people, and in
due time the line was completed. 1t
enters Los Angeles near Agricultural
park and runs through very pictur-
esque stretch of country to tidewater on
the wharf. 1t is completely equipped
and is now operated at frequent inter-
walls all days of the week. The company
has new style of "motor" locomotive
that burns petroleum for fuel, thus
avoiding noise, smoke and flying eye
destroying cinders. The trains OF cars
are the handsomest ever seen in Califor-
MIA. They will make hourly trips be-
tween the hotel and Los Angeles in
thirty or forty minutes. The depot,
handsome two-story brick structure of
elegant design, is located about 100 feet
easterly of the hotel. In it are commo-
dious ticket offices, waiting-rooms, and
on the second floor are the elegant offices
of Captain George G. Ainsworth,
OF the Redondo Company. A thou
sand feet or SO south are the
car houses and repair shops, and
still further south are the lighthouses,
containing tens of thousands of roses
and plants with which to decorate the
grounds.
For dull times, and an era of a bursted
"boom," the record above is rather sur
prising. 1t has cost the company hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to accom-
plish the grand results SO briefly
sketched. Nor is there any sign OF
firing in the good work apparent. The
work done up to this point is merely
preliminary II is the path leading to
something beyond. That something is
what this article, too, has been leading
up to, and now we come to the impor-
tant and special object of all hereto
before written.
The RedondO Hotel.
Yesterday and today the Redondo
Hotel Company keep open house in
their new hostelry, which has just been
completed and is now open to the gen.
eral public. 1t is of this all Los Angeles
and all the country about are speaking
these days. 1t is pronounced by all of
the great multitudes who have paid it
visit during the time it was being built,
and particI1larlv hv those who have saeD