The herald., 1893-01-25
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY s5, 1898.
sUMETHING ABOUT BUILDING IN LOS
ANGBLES-HOTELS.


w
1t has always been subject of re-
mark that, considering the large amount
Of capital in Los Angeles, we have no,
more pretentious business building.
here. We are away behind Seattle
Portland and Tacoma in this respect
There are a number of cities of twenty.
Eve thousand inhabitants that excel us
immeasurably in towering piles devoted
to business. Why this is 30 we are at a
loss to know. 1t is probably owing to
the same peculiar trait that has left the
most attractive spot on the American
continent without fine hotel. At the
name time our banks are numerous and
plethoric with coin. We are afraid that
We must own up to the fact that it is a
lack OF public spirit. 1t seems to be
pretty well established that if we are
ever to get hotel here on the modern
plan it must be built by some person or
Byndicate from abroad. 1t is high
time that this person or corpora
tion should materialize. AS to bust
ness blocks it is pleasant to know that
the two or three handsome ones we al
ready possess are about to be increased
by two splendid edifices, the one the
Bradbury block, which is now in course
of erection on the corner of Broadway
and Third streets, and the other the
Btimson block on the corner of Spring
and Third. These will be edifices OF
great solidity and beauty, and will rep
resent large investment of money. As
far as the Bradbury block has gone it
gives evidences Of Splendid arcnItecJuraI
attractions that will only be surpassed,
if surpassed at all, by the Mills and
Crocker buildings in San Francisco.
Hitherto the Bryson- -Bonebrake and
Baker blocks, and a few others, have
had to do duty for Los Angeles with
strangers as representative of the wealth
and enterprise of our people. In our
residence quarters we have nothing to
desire. Great taste has been exer-
cised there, and with most happy re-
suits. The task of creating beauti-
full home city has been made compare
lively easy by the wonderful opulence of
the gardens which can be secured in
this climate with such little pains. A
ten thousand dollar residence, owing to
this spontaneity Of nature, can be made
to show more captivating features than
one which has cost one hundred thou
sand dollars in the eastern states. But
our city is by no means lacking in
costly private edifices. They abound on
every hand, with their beauties magni-
fed tenfold by their inimitable sur
roundings.
1t may not be out Of place to congrat-
ulate ourselves on the prodigality which
nature has shown to us in the matter of
building stones. The whole DEVILS
Gate above Pasadena. and from which
Pasadena derives her water supply,
Is a. mass of the very finest
granite. There is enough of that
material quite handy to Los Angeles
to build half dozen cities as large as
New York. Then we have the lovely
brown sandstone of the Sespe and OF
Flagstaff-two beautiful building ma.
terials that complement each other, and
that harmonizs amost delightfully."-
Effects can be produced by combining
thesestwo stones that are indescribably
beautiful and far bey ond those which
can be attained by employing the famous
Connecticut brown n stone. Then we have
insthe Cotton marbles building materia
of great variety and brilliancy. Though
the employment of these marbles ha
been qnite limited, there are numbe
pfexamples of their happy effect to be
ueen IN Los Angeles buildings. They
are employed in the pilasters of tn,
entrance OF the Bryson- -Bonebrake block
There Is modest little building on Wes
Second, street, near Broadway, in which
The Offices Of the Sunset Telephone com
pany will be located, that shows wha
happy results can be accomplished will
this Cotton marble.
With all this wealth of building mate
rial there is every reason why we shoul'
ook for city of incompatible beautl
IN La Ciudad de la Reins de Los An
geles. The place has the prettiest nam
In the whole world, and it's physica
characteristics, even in the business
quarters, should be made to correspond
with its romantic name and history
When our architects and landscape gar
aeners shall combine to assault and sub
jugate nature we may look for gu
md unexampled results. Great wealth
Exists here already, and it is destined t.
accumulate at rapid rate. The era o
palace building is about to ret in-in
Iced, il has already begun. Meanwhile
Ee should see to it that oul business
buildings should correspond with tn
manifest destiny Of the place. Nature ha