The herald., 1894-01-01

prietors, claim that person can find any
thing in their stock that the human
being can possibly want or desire for
personal needs. Mr.. Bracewell is q
thorough business man and knows and
understands the wants of his neighbors.
Mr.. Bracewell gives the business his
personal attention, besides being inter-
ested in vast number of other enter
prises. The postofice is located in the
store. Besides their vast etock OF gen.
eral merchandise the firm carries large
stock of ship chandlery and also own
the immense warehouse on the wharf,
which is always filled with merchandise
and in harvest season handles the grain
from the thousands of acres that are
cultivated in the vicinity Of Redondo.
REDoNDo HOTEL.
The Redondo hotel has been spoken
of as the ''crowning effort of all hotels
on the Pacific coast.'' This magnif-
cent structure, four stories high and
covering over an acre of ground, repos-
ing gracefully upon a slight eminence,
"where the broad ocean leans against
the land" with fine vistas of sea and
shore meeting the eye in all directions,
was opened to the public May l, 1890.
1t is building that would not suffer in
comparison if placed beside one of the
most imposing structures on the Attain
tic coast. 1t is palace of comfort and
pleasure, and is unsurpassed in its ap-
pointmsnts, table service and general
details. OF the 225 rooms, every one
has sunny exposure at some hour of
the day, every one is well ventilated
and lighted, every one is an ''outside
room," and every guest feels that his is
the best suite in the house.
The building is supplied throughout
with modern Improvements. 1t has in
candescent electric lights and gas in all
the rooms, and arc lights in the hotel
grounds. Hot and cold water and CRATES
in every room. The halls and lobby are
thoroughly heated by steam.
The latest and most improved hy-
draulic elevators are in use. There is
fine billiard parlor, bar and barber shop
in the house.
The dining hall is one of the most
beautiful and pleasant that mind ever
conceived. 1t is OF magnificent proper
tions, with high srched ceiling, fine
panel finish. is splendidly lighted and
will seat 300 guests. The view from
this room is charming in all directions,
and the ocean may be seen from every
seat.
The table is unsurpassed by any ho-
tel on the coast, and is supplied at all
times with the very best of everything
that the markets afford. The cream,
butter, eggs, poultry and vegetables are
| furnished fresh fiom the company's
own farm kept for this purpose.
"A first. class band for the dining room
and ball room is in constant attendance.
The ball room is great feature of the
hotel, being acknowledged by all visit
ors as one OF the fipest in the United
States, elegant inlaId wood floors, hand
somely draped anddecorated and thor
oughly lighted by electricity and gas.
| On the hotel grounds is the best tennis
court in the state well arranged and
complete in every detail, with club
room, baths, etc.
| There is aleo a nursery of several
acres and large greenhouse, where the
most beautiful and rarest of flowers
bloom the year round, and the hotel
draws from this apurce the freshness
and fragrance OF PERPETUAL spring.
| This hotel will bt kept open through
out the year. Whbn the winter gnest
returns to his eastern home, the pros
| porous orange grover and bueness man
| of our interior valleys will come to Re-
| dondo to escape ihe summers heat
| as the summer sojourner takes his
! flight, the refugee from the rigors of
4 northern climate Will take his place; for
\ while Redondo Bbach is cooler than
| Cape May in summer, 1t is warmer than
San Bernardino ih winter. The tenn
perature OF the water OF the ocean
varies less than lQ degrees in the course
OF year, and surf bathing ia always
i enjoyable.
There is less rainfall here than in the
interior, and the winter is more balmy
and pleasant as shrely as the summer is
more cool and bracing. The fishing,
Bathing and boating are unrivalled. No
malaria, no hay fever, no oppressive