Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-20
SANTA MONICA,

The new deal in the stock OF the Ca
sino notedin yesterdays HERALD where
by Messrs. Abbott Kinney and Francis
G. Ryan have purchased q controlling
interest in the same, means far more to-
ward the advancement of the resort than
any event which has transpired since
Messrs. Cowley & Baker assumed the
management of the Arcadia, and put
their energy, coin and push into the
same, making it the equal of any seaside
hotel in the state. The gentlemen who
will from now on be the moving spirits
in the Casino stated to your correspond
ent that they had purchased three ad-
ditional lots on Third street which
would give them ample space for the
many improvements contemplated in
what will be the future home of legisi-
mate sport at the city by the sea. Three
new tennis courts will be made imme-
diately and those here will be 80 inn
proved that they will vie with any in
the state, insuring the coming tourna-
ment of the Southern California Tennis
association. A bowling alley and other
attractions will be added, and next
spring the Casino building itself en-
larged very materially. We have long
needed such home for all athletic
sports, similar to the Casinos which
are situated in all the eastern resorts of
any consequence, and all those who
make Santa Monica their summer home
may rest assured that the gentlemen
who now control the same will make it an
ideal one, and thus we take another step
word for in the van of all summer resorts
in Southern California.
Phil. G. Byrne, of San Antonio, Texas,
is registered at the st. James.
Mrs. III. L. Harrison has rented the
Dixon house on Third street for the sea-
son.
III. W. Seymour has rented one Of the
Dixon cottages on Fifth street.
G. D. Warning and family of River
side arrived today, and have taken pos
session of their summer home on Fourth
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick H. Ridge
were down here yesterday. The gentle-
man made thorough inspection of his
new residence, which is about, COM
pleted, on the corner OF Nevada and
Ocean avenue. sx rs,...
r. A. Ling and family have taken pos
session of their North Beach cottage.
Mrs. Drane, of the Newsboys home in
Los Angeles, is spending few days
here. n. 4 s,;r ss
VIM. Toumison and family tave taken
a cottage on the South Beach for the
summer season.
The Pacific Coast Insurance union has
issued circular to all the agents resid-
ing here in which they state that unless
the license tax recently imposed on the
agents here, of SO per company, i5 re-
scinded, they will increase the rate 20
per cent. Just what the trustees will
do with the statement at their next
meeting is hard to conjecture.
Yesterday Santa Monica lodge u. D.
of F. and A. M. was duly inaugurated.
Many visiting brethren were present,
among them being Prof. Woodbury.,
district deputy grand master. The
new lodge room and its adjuncts are the
equal Of any in the state, the lodge
sparing no expense that would make
the future home OF Masonry at the city
by the sea an ideal one. The lodge is
situated on the top floor of the, Bank
block, corner OF Third and Oregon ave-
nues. The main or assemblage room is
81 by 26 and the banquet hall, which is
to the left, separated by folding doors,
is 80 by 18. There are two ante-rooms,
10 by IA and 16 by Is respectively, with
closets innumerable. The furniture,
which is all of native woods, is after the
most approved patterns, with blue
plush curtains at the alcoves or win
dows, and with fine carpets on the
floor, which makes it all that could be
desired. At the appointed hour the
lodge was duly started on its grand
mission of intoxicating the never-dying
principles of the order which mas with
stood all the assaults of time and will
live on to the end. The following are
the charter members: Leroy Decatur
Brown, Southern California lodge 27S,
California; William Templeau Gillis,
New Caledonia lodge IL, Nova Scotia;
Niles Rathbon Folsom, Tekamah lodge
81, Nebraska; Abbott Kinney, Pasa-
dena lodge 272, California; Charles
Scott Dale, Fairfield lodge 206, Illinois /;
Martin Henry Volkman, st. Andrews
lodge "a, Connecticut; Marcus d.
Feather, Richmond lodge 81, Missouri !:
Henry Clay Bagg Southern California
lodge 278, California; Julius l. Com
stock, Morning Star lodge 10, Wiscon-
sin; Charles Bergk, Pentalpha lodge
202, California; Frederick Klare, South
ern California lodge 27s, California; ;
Hermann Evard Hasse, Southern Calf
orna lodge lodge 27S, California; Men
20 B. Boyce, Southern California lodge
27S, California Charles Edwards Ferris,
Capitol lodge 3, Nebraska; J. Elias
Dunham, Lebanon lodge 26, Ohio; John
Schaeffer, Lincoln lodge, Nebraska.
Levy d. Brown has been appointed
master, w. T. Giilis, senior warden, and
N. r. Folsom, junior warden of Santa
Monica lodge by the dispensation.