Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01
HOTEL REDONDO.

around the boat, giving the tourists
chance to stand or cit under broad
veranda and view the manifold beauties
of the great river of the west-who but
thorough steamboatman, who had
fought his way up from obscurity by
sheer merit alone, could have devised
euch feet? Well, these were the men
whose busy brains modelled the Redondo
hotel from cellar to roof, and who car
ried into its maintenance, after its COM
pletion, the same equitable and fair
minded methods which laid the founda-
tion of their now ample fortunes in in
land navigation.
IT'S FRONTAGE AND LOCATION.
The Redondo hotel faces Santa Mon
lea bay, and the guest who takes mis-
ease upon its broad verandas sees the
commerce of the south coast passing by
in graceful obedience to Him who rules
the storm. Before it spreads beach of
snowy sand upon which the surf breaks
in gentle undulatioEs at the will OF the
balmy western breezes. The original
design was fve.story building of orr
entail structure. but when Messrs. Aims.
worth and Thompson organized the Re.
dondo Hotel company they determined
to give the public something less for
show and more for comfort. The house
was built three stories in height and
covering nearly twice as much ground
as the old plan. "Your elevators might
get out OF order and the people don't like
too much running up and down stairs"
said the two old practical heads that
designed it; and so the new house was
built in the shape of letter Y, thus
giving plentiful light to every room in
the house. Visitors from the east, who
have been huddled into little boxes and
alcoves at Saratoga. Newport and Cape
May, were astenished at the perfect
light and ventilation which charac-
terizes the Redondo. The harsh winds
and chilling fogs to be met with at all
the seaside resorts along the Atlantic
seaboard are here conspicuous by their
absence. January finds the broad
verandas occupied by invslids from all
the northern states, drinking in the
ozone and backing in the mild winter
sunshine. 1t is just the place for sensi-
BILE people who want comfort and re-
pose and place where people whose
health is none Of the best, can zee all
that is to be seen without being tied
down to the tyrannical DEGREES Of
modern fashionable life.
A EUROPEAN HOTEL KEEPER
would find fault with the construction
OF this house. He would say "there are
too many windows and there is actually
a waste Of room in the halls and corri-
dors." But it is the perfect system Of
light and ventilation that makes the
Redondo what it is--the most homelike
and comfortable hotel in America. Its
furniture is simply perfect in its combi-
nation of elegance with simplicity,
nothing tawdry or fantsstical being no.
ticeable IN its equipment. The wood
work of the house is all modern and
elegant and the furniture matches it to
perfection. A ripe scholar said that the
art in dressing was to dress so that no
one coald remember what one wore
The same rule has seemingly been fol-
lowed in the equipment OF the Rsdondo.
You go away unable to describe
the fittings of any room in the
house. All you can remember is
that everything was as neat ss it was
elegant, and that you had good time
all the while you were there. Hot and
cold water in your room ct all hours OF
the day or night, electric lights up to
10 p. NJ. and plainly of gas thence till
morning; and with beds that seem to
invite the very hour of retiring, you lie
down to rest with latest recollections of
your cosy surroundings and the lullaby
of the surf croons you to- sleep. The
parlors seem more like those Of some re-
tired merchants mansion than those Of
a hotel; and the two bridal chambers,
being designed by two unmarried ladies,
length is one of the features Of the place.