Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-01
THE SEASIDE CITY.
SANTA MONICA BY TIE SEA AND
EER SURROUNDINGS.
Scenes of Beauty on Land and Ocean.
Fertile Fields and Verdant Hills.
Legends of the Olden Time-Promises
for the Future.

| NO spot on earth can rival SAINTS
Monica by the Sea in scenic magnifi
cence, in the charm of pleasing variety
of marine picturesqueness with noun
| famous background reached by windin.
wales and deep romantic cafions. Here
all nature seems attuned to sweet con
cords, overhead a blue, smiling sky, with
a soft balmy air always waited along
the rugged coast line, while crisp foam
flakes scud along the level silver sand
torn from the cleaning fringe of spray
Santa Monica stands like rich jewel
at the innermost curve of splendid
crescent into which the majestic, foam
crested rollers OF the Pacific sweep in
stately sequence ever stretch of thirty
miles. Far out on the horizon line, lost
in misty purple haze the isles of Santa
Catalina and San Cemente stand like sem
tinels, mediators tranquillizing the more
boisterous seas as they flow toward the
shore. Standing on bold promontory
that towers one hundred feet above the
sea, with the chasmic deeps of the canon
stretching inward on one hand, the
world-tired stranger gazes upon vistas
that are filed with all the charms and
splendors of tropic clime-a haven Of
rest that rivals in destinations the i'm
aginative land OF the Lotus Eaters.
There is no seaside resort along the
Atlantic coast from sunny Florida to
bleak, rock-ribbed Maine that possesses
all the charms and attractions that seem
to have been so lavishly showered on
Santa Monica. Here, perforce of all the
manifold natural advantages, climate
that is unrivalled the world over, must
soon come the long train of rest-seekers,
whose stately villas, cresting the frown-
ing bluffs will overlook one of the finest
pictures in the world-for Santa Mon
lea -by-the-Sea is the ideal epot for
home building-a resort where the air
is alwa7s filled with summer and sun
shine everywhere. The restless inn
pulses of commerce are just now touch
ing this gsrden-spot, and in little
while a magnificent wharf 5000 feet
long, stretching seaward obliquely to
gain the protection of Point Dune, will
give anchorage for richly-laden argosies
from all the ports of the world.
A drive along Ocean avenue, lined
with outrageous eucalyptus and pepper
trees-a superb driveway l24 feet wide
stirling the preclpitous bluff-reveals
series of views that would kindle the
heart and enthuse the fancy of the most
prosaic. Here, for stretch of
two miles, are studded in. an
emerald setting of tropic foliage, a sue
cession of beautiful homesteads shell
tered with vines Of trailing arbutus,
and white and red roses, while the air
is perfumed with the sweet savors of
the orange, the purple heliotrope and
the white, delicate petaed lily.
Branching out toward Los Angeles is
Utah avenue, splendid boulevard,
soon to join Santa Monica with the City
of the Angels. On every thoroughfare,
no matter where you turn, you find the
touch OF improvement in the rows of
eucalyptus trees, the graded and curbed
avenues with solid cement sidewalks.
Ultimately Santa Monica will be great
city OF homes, and the Southern Pacific
railway officials, realizing the trend of
events, are now engaged in tunnel
ing the bluff IN order to carry
their rails along the north beach
Tor TWO miles or moR to the
new wharf which will stretch seaward
for mile and quarter, with depth
of 2 fathoms midway and 80 feet at it's
1t is noticeable fact that the home
steads erected in Santa Monica combine
all the graces of modern architectural
elegance. The cluster of hotels within
a short radius of the bathing beach. in
Guiding the magnificent Hotel Arcadia.
which stands on the crest of the bluff.
are all structures combining comfort
with picturesque substantially. When
the visitor crosses the bridge leading
from cid Santa Monica to the new. he
enters the old Spanish Rancho ell Boca de
Santa Monica, a vast tract OF 80 900
acres, now the possession of United States
Senator John p. Jones and Colonel
Baker-a domain stretching in accord
with the old Spanish claim from the Pa
cifc ocean back into the Cahueupa
range of mountains. One of the finest
homes in Southern California is the
winter home of Senator Jones, which
stands in five-acre garden on Ocean
avenue, overlooking the sea and
bounded by Second, California and
Utah streets. 1t is a happy combina.
ton OF the best elements of the Queen
Anne and the Flemish architectural
ideas. 1t is built of redwood, with wide
spreading porches, shaded by trailing
vines and surrounded by palms, orange
and lei mon trees. The close shaven lawn
is artistically broken at intervals by
masses of tropical flowers, while the en-
tire enclosure is surrounded by thick
hedge of great La France roses that load
the air with perfume. The Jones
mansion is typical Southern California
home, and All intuitive welcome awaits
each guest in every one of its thirty
seven spacious apartments. Here Mrs.
Jones, the mother of the senator, sur
rounded by the younger generation of
the family, serenely passes her days.
Eighty-nine winters have touched her
head with silver, but today in the enjoy
ment of good health, at ripe old age,
life is now one long summer to her.
A ride over the Jones' Baker tract re-
veals one OF those marvellous agricultural
Hncctaclea only to be seen In 2orfharr