Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-30
AT REDoNDo.
WHAT A VISITOR FROM THE NORTH
FOUND THERE.
Her Impressions of This Sunny Country.
A Perfect Hotel Irreproachably Con-.
Quoted An Enthusiastic Description
of the Attractions.

been held up to the outside barbarian,
as land OF dear delights, cline where
the orange and citron forever bloom,
and where to be alive is a dream
sanctioned by the gods. Thus far and
wide has extended the fame of this
'vale OF the Angels" until that portion
of our fair heritage, spreading from the
rim Of the desert to the edge Of the Pa
.cifc Sea, has been invested with charm
such as come to us in after-dinner Wis
ions OF far tropical countries.
~ With the above prelude, l will tell you
that, although resident of this coast
for thirty years, l now see Southern, or
"OrientaP' California, with admiring
eyes for the first time, and although I
have noted the growth of your cities and
rejoiced in the phenomenal prosperity,
circumstances or fate has until this hour
prevented me from crossing the mount
ain barriers, through which is threaded
the wondrous loop of the Tehachipi-
that marvel OF engineering skill.
"Ten times as large as Marysville,
five times as large as Sacramento, is
what you will find our fair southern
city, Los Angeles" said friend to me
on my arrival, and needing this admon-
eition was determined not to be over
whelmed by your greatness, had found
you occupying as many broad leagues of
land as now does the city by the Golden
Gate-"St. Francis" the thrice blessed
early mission settlement of the venera-
BILE padres.
Naturally the visitor among you, af-
ter digesting all the sights about your
charming city, will look about him for a
more extended observation of what your
environs offer, and what pastimes may
be had near to the ocean, whose limit
less plain extends almost from your;
hearthstones to the spice scented isles
OF the Archipelago. As the steed scents.
his manger afar, so he whose birthplace,
was near the sea will listen for the
sound OF the grooming wave and smell
the salted air which every breeze waits
inland. 1t seems to him that the ocean
voice is calling, calling; and obeying
that Unborn longing the wanderer, as
from home, answers back, II comel''
had heard, away in my northern
home, of a wave-kisseG sunny spot,
guarded from vagrant winds by a bold
and frowning headland, which, jutting
far at sea, protected the clear bay,
whose shore line was curved like q
reaper's sickle, or the crescent, that
symbolic emblem of the later tribes of
the far cast. And the story further re-
lated that the name of this place was
Redondo. 1t was a promised arcadia
by the sea, not the ''sad, sad waves"
but a dancing, joyous, bonny, sunny
sea, where the ripples laughed all day
long on "pebbly beach" or kissed the
smooth gray sands where bent the shore
almost as round as the shield of young
Norval's father.
All. roads lead to, Rome. Like its
ancient prototype, many roAte lead to
Los Angeles. BY virtue Of securing
broad arteries through which her life
blood can pulsate, and capacious lungs
through which her growing populations
shall respire, several thoroughfares 60
directly to the coast, and on one of
these. propelled by a steed of steam,
your correspondent went on voyage of
discovery q few days since--over the
plains and far away, until the waves
came up and splashed her feet at
round" beach with as little compunc-
tion as they splashed the hem of King
Canute's robe and wetted his sandals.
Now it is the design of the average
HuAdu W w Wcii leu, ana well
housed. He would have elegance aswell,
and polite attention. He desires hand
some rooms and is exact about neatness,
godliness. Then he would be sur
rounded by things fair and pleasant to
the eye and senses. He wants agreeable
and sociable companions. He wants
music. and flowers, and graceful shrubs
that bloom and wave in the scented air.
In fact, though it has been said. that
imam wants out little here below" l
find that his wants are legion, and
wanted often. As if in answer to this
openly expressed and predominant
want in the man-animal, was builded
RedondO hotel, as elegant and recherche
an habitation as can be found anywhere
about this little globe of ours, round
which the restless traveller is continually
wandering.
Who its projectors were and what are
the prospects of this young town, whose
patronym is the same as the castle-like
building devoted to the comfort and en-
tertainment of the stranger-guest, you
who are neighbors are better informed,
than the writer, but would add my tes-
timony to the hundreds of persons who
have Jared within its portals since this
house took its rank among the places of
attraction in California, that, for COM
plete and mastery management, COM
bined with ease, elegance and neatness,s
Redondo hotel is without a peer. We
have all read of the power behind the
throne. and when with scrihe's usual
inquisitiveness sought the master force
that dominated this paragon of hostel
ries, / found that in the person of Col.
Il. w. Root, as manager, the proprietors
of the hotel possessed man of large ex-
ecutive ability, a courteous and affable
gentleman, such as should only be
trusted to cater to the wants of guests
whose sole aim in life is to be enter
tanned snd amused.
The ocean has its own. special attrac-
tions for every being who loves nature,
and this alone would naturally bring
crowds hither during the summer
months. Fortunate, then, are people
to find here all that makes life worth
the living, in truth palatial residence,
where courtesy and exceeding good
manners distinguish every executive
officer connected Herewith.
In conclusion l would say that, in my
humble opinion, the surroundings Of
this bijou sea-side resort are about as
near perfection as any place this side of
the shore of the celestial sea, and when
return to the hills of the north, the
remembrance of my sojourn at Redondo
u. = "a A.