The herald., 1897-10-21
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
LONG BEACH

LONG BEACH, Oct 20.-(Regular Cor
respondence.) I. M. Mendenhall of Whit
tier was in town on Monday and told sew
eral parties that he was going to have a
hotel erected, the contract for which would
be let next week. The proposed hotel will
be four stories in height, and situated on
Ocean Front avenue between Pine and
Locust, and will have at the rear a nata-
torium and plunge bath, with facilities for
heating the water. The structure will
have 100 feet frontage, and extend 150 feet
to the rear 1t will be first-class in all its
appointments, and with its hot and cold
plunge bath accessories should be the most
attractive and best patronized hotel on the
coast, taking our magnificent natural ad-
vantages of climate and location into con-
sideration. Mr.. Mendenhall did not give
the names of the men in the deal, only that
they were not residents of Long Beach,
but as he stated that the contract for the
construction of the buildings would be let
next week We will not have long to wait
for the veriication of the story.
The tourist section Ebell club had an
interesting session on Monday at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. s. G. Long on Chest
nut avenue. Mrs. c. +. A. Johnson gave a
graphic description of a trip she once made
between Lucerne and Lake Zurich, and
Mrs Long told of the beauties of trip
from Lucerne to the top of Rgi. Mrs. H.
c. Dillon and Mrs. Tichenor. who attended
the woman's parliament in Los Angeles as
the club delegates, gave an extremely in
teresting report of the proceedings.
The game of baseball between the High
( and grammar school clubs last Saturday
on the new high school grounds resulted in
favor of the club from the grammar school.
DR.. Densmore, of Occidental college, Los
Angeles, occupied the pulpit morning and
evening Of the Presbyterian church on Sun
day. DR.. Dennen, the regular pastor. not
having fully recovered from his recent
illness.
The regular annual chrysanthemum fair
Of the Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyte-
rian church will begin tonight and continue
tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Miss Peevy of Machias, Me-, has taken
possession of her late purchase, the Phelps
cottage on Chestnut avenue.
There will be meeting of citizens at
Sanitarium hall. on Second street, this
evening to talk over and take measures
towards incorporation. A meeting at the
hall Tuesday evening. not being generally
known, was but simly attended.
Dr. Pursey, H. M. Bailey, c. E. Cole and
VIII B. Julian, who had been touring San
Diego county for a couple of weeks. got
back Tuesday, and report having had a
splendid time while on the trip.
Hazeton Seeley and oliver Lopez, who
have been on a prospecting trip in the
Randsburg district, dropped into town the
latter end of last week and report having
made a good find.
Miss Eta Prosise of Los Angeles was
kdown Sunday, visiting her relatives.
Mrs. Henry w. Caystie returned from
her visit to Mrs. George K. Porter at San
KTernando on Sunday.
"A Mrs. R. d. Curtis left on Saturday for
YAnaheim on a visit in which business and
pleasure are blended.
]. X. Noble and wife of Los Angeles were
at the beach Monday.
Chris Hensen, fireman on the Los An
geles and San Pedro branch of the Ter
minal. who spent eleven weeks visiting
relatives and friends in the middle west,
got back to the land of sunshine on Tues
day, and will return to his old post on Mon
day,