The herald., 1895-07-15
YESTERDAY 1t REDOAD0
A Breezy Talk Upon the Place
and People
1T is A SUMNER HAVEN
A Herald Reporter Has a COnurdrum
and Asks It
Why Are Men Permitted to Bathe IN Twss
Inch Trousers, Arms Bare and the Wish
Bone Bagging at the Kaes

As the regulation American watering.
place is accepted by the public. Kedondo
must be considered the connecting link
between Santa Monica upon the one hand
and Long Beach ON the other. While
lacking both the pastoral calm of the one
and the woolly wlldness of the other, Re-
dondo really possesses, fin de sieclely, the
elements of both with the reservation,
however, that here you are compelled to
look for what you want, while at any
other Southern California seaside resort
you find 1t without seeking.
Redondo beach will probably always be
what it is today, the summer haven for
those who seek the "sad seashore' for
the rest obtained by just so much quiet
as the absence of an indiscri.ninat crowd
will secure-nothing more. nothing less.
There is noise hereabouts, too plenty Of
it; but it is not the noise of the mob
which piles in and announces its exult.
ing arrival with the fearful din of numer-
ously overloaded special trains. 1t is an
orderly commotion, the one hereabouts,
which possesses the characteristics of Q
midsummer evening fete amid the classic
shades of ST. James park, noise which
seldom whispers later than 1880 p.m.,
| and then only so softly that the same
| sad sea waves mentioned near the open
| ing of this narrative show their contempt
| by roaring the louder at what they con-
| sider the proof that they are the monarch
| of all they survey.
| Although the weather so far has not
| been, from the usual watering place hotel
standpoint as summary as it should be,
the Redondo is filled, the guests hailing
from New York, Chicago. st. Paul, San
Francisco, the southwestern territories
and Los Angeles. The days are idyllio
ana the nights could not be improved up-
on, even in this country OF perfect
| weather.
Levy, he of the magic trumpet, PLAYED
| thissafternoon to some 5000 people. He
| rendered his several numbers from the
| hotel porticos, which were crowded, the
| grounds of Col. Daniel McFarland's we'll
| appointed conservatory being also packed.
| Levy's engagement ends with the month.
He has been a potent though expensive
attraction, and the hotel management de-
serves great credit for his engagement.
| Besides Levy, melody is furnished daily
by Spanish mandolin and guitar or
chestra ana by the band of the Ninth
said to run riot here, morning, room and
night.
Redondo Beach crowds evidently do
not take kindly to public bathing in the
the surf here, if yesterday was criterion.
1t may have been that tho sea was bit
| but whatever the cause. there were not
| $50 people in the surf all dav. OF those
| who iDdulged, not more tnan forty were
| women, whose bathing dresses were any
| thing but the decollette affairs pictured
as the prevailing styles by the Sunday
| supplement newspaper artist.
| Why is it that men are permitted to 20
into the surf with trousers trimmed with
| two inches Of leg arms bare and the wish
bone, hagging at the knees. as i weref
In all of the discussions anent the pro-
priety of boomers for the gentler sex not
one woman has ever rushed into print to
| decry against the immodesty of the male
bathing garment. Does it mean that the
men themselves are responsible for the
bloomer agitation? 1t certainly looks
to an observer at the seaside. As the
male biped is logged out for plunge In
the briny, he would put to blush toe
| what-do-you-call-'e EN- sisters who have
terpsichored Trilby at the New York roof
garden minus shoes and stockings and
clad in monster Japanese um brella.
The new woman is not in evidence
here. If she exists at all it is probably
| within the secret precincts of the second
story of the big Redondo hotel. where
she can, in the privacy of her own apart
ments, commune with nature without
being Of it, Were she to leave the CON-
| fines allotted to her, wherever they are,
the small boy would throw stones at her.
and his larger brother and sister, who
spoon and spook in and about the numer-
GUS hooks SO generously provided by Col
onel Mcfarland. would dip her in the
surf.
8 The Redondo company certainly de-
serves credit for the expenditure of the
vast sums of money which have made of
this beach the pretty spot it is. The prop
erty invested herea bouts must aggregate
in value several millions of dollars.
Whether or not the investment has thus
far proven pecuniary success, the pre-
diction is here made that what Del Mon
to has been and Is to the northern half Of
the state, Redondo Beach will always bs
to Southern California.
Among those who are here for the sea-
son are: Mrs. H. e. P. Jenks, Miss
Prentice, Colonel P. J. Swain and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Hall. Miss Looms,
Santa Fe; Mrs. .. f. kuencer, Kingman,
Arlz.; s. G; Reed and wife, -Pasadena;
and family, F. G. Gay and family, B. G.
Truman, wife and daughter. LOS Angeles;
J. ID. Wilde and wife, Pasadena; A. G.
Jones and family Los Angeles; G. W.
Mcintyre and family, ST. Paul; George 8.
IPnattse1, wife and child, School Director
geles; George H. Graves. New York; H.
7. Reno and wife, Los Angeles Mrs. !.
W. Scout, Chicago; r. r. Thompson and
wife, San Francisco; Mrs. Clara Baker
and son, Pasadena; Mrs. f. S. Hicks. III,
III. Metcalf and wife, Mrs. L. A. Morset.
Miss G. E. Thomas, Colin Stewart aud
family. j. P. More and wife. Los An
geles; Mr.. and Mrs. Marceau, San Fran
cisco; William Pridham and wife. Mrs.
Colonel John .. Wheeler, City Attorney
w. e. Dunn and wife, Hon. Franz Raner
and wife. DR.. MCGOWAN and family w.
b. Wightman and wife. Miss A. Wight
man, Miss Georgia Sullivan. Miss Ferrer,
Mrs. Hensley, Mrs. William Thornton,
Los Angeles.
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