Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-04
WANT A HOTEL.
The Report Of the Hotel Committee to
the Chamber of Commerce.

the Chamber OF (ommefCe.
The following report on a hotel for the
city was read at the January meeting OF
the chamber OF commerce:
To the Los Angeles Chamber OF Commerce:
GENTLEMEN :--Y Your committee on ho-
tells report the great need of large first
class hotel in Los Angeles. This has
become the topic OF eastern tourists
who come here to spend their winters
in this agreeable climate away from the
cyclones, billiards and snow storms OF
the east and foreign countries.
The need Of good hotel in Los An
geles is topic that will hardly admit OF
discussion. 1t is an automatic truth.
The section is well provided with an
abundance of rural hotels, and has sew
eral notably fine hostelries at the sea-
side. The Coronado leads all these in
size; but the Redondo yields to none in
attractiveness and completeness. The
Raymond furnishes fine foothill re-
sort; there is always a class of tourists
who wish to spend their winters for the
most part in city.
The valetudinarian may prefer the
! highlands, and in summer the seashore
may have its own attractions for sick
and we'll but for an all-the-year-round
programme the city must, if 1t desires to
throw within its gates the great mass OF
the travelling public, have great hotel.
| The tourist is usually man of more
or less means, and the more money he
has the more desirable he is as visitor.
America is full of rich people OF leisure
who love to travel. For them it is most
desirable to get away from the east for
portion of the severe winter months,
when the weather makes life struggle
even to those best prepared for the fight.
This class Of tourists will not go any
where unless they can be assured OF the
very best accommodations.
There are places where such things
can be found. These people are accus-
toned to all the .luxuries OF life at their
own homes. These include sumptuous
sleeping apartments, baths, reading
rooms, billiards in quiet rooms, where
the best of order is maintained; the
pleasure of the table embraces all the
delicacies of all markets, and well
cooked and we'll served. Expense is
not so much of a consideration to
them as it is to have what they want.
The same sort of hotel which is an
absolute necessity to these people would
be great attraction to the larger num-
Der of the people, not so rich, and who
can do without some things, but who
would much prefer to have them.
Until we have such hotel we will
never get any of that very wealthy and
most fastidious class. When we do get
such a hotel we will get much greater
number of the first class referred to here.
That is about all there is in this mat
ter of great hotels.
Florida has many such, and there
flock thousands of people to all the
coast cities. They are more quickly
reached; it does not cost so much to get
there, and people can reach home in
case OF an emergency more quickly than
from this coast. FROM any part OF the
country east OF the mountains one can
get to Florida in twenty-four hours, at
an outlay of not to exceed $32.50 for a
round trip ticket.
Here are the obstacles we have to con-
tend with what have we to offset them?
We have a climate much better than
that of Florida. 1t is an all-the-year-
round climate, as good in summer as in
winter, as good in winter as in summer.
Florida is endurable from the end of
December to the beginning of March.
1t is damp, gloomy climate at best. 1t
is uncomfortable from eight to ten month
in the year. Our scenery is superior to
that of Florida, our outdoor life is drives,
walks, flowers, sunshine and thou
sand other things makes life here pleas
anter than there.
The tide of tourists that flows into
Florida from eight to ten weeks every
winter is astonishing. The hotels there
make enough in that short season to
live on all the year. The same fact is
true of the Riviera in Italy. The sea-
son there is nearly as short as in Flor
ida.
To draw great stream of tourists
here at all times of the year we need
first first-class hotel; and second.
cheaper rates of travel between here and
the east. 1t ought to be possible to
make $50 rate for round trip ticket
for any part of the country. The rail-
roads would make more money than at
the present extremely high rates.
The railroads own hotels in Florida
and SO manage affairs as to make one
interest aid the other. If the great rail-
road combine could be induced to invest
in great hotel in this city, they would
do the same. w. H. ToIER,
Chairman of the Committee on Hotels
Original Packages.