Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-21
BIG DEALS ooMxoH.
Place Where Mem Are Accustomed TO
Award Large Contracts.

AWero Largo Oo0tTecVos
Maj. Herbert w. Meyers Of this city. who
10 making tour Of the far west. In Z COM
munication to The Star gives some of his
experiences in the land of the setting sun.
He says:
"For tho past few days have been the
guest Of ex-senator Dorsey Patton OF I'LL
nois, who came to California two years ago
with little Of this worlds goods and today
Is reported to DO worth about 100000
Next to the delightful climate. beauti-
full vine-clad homes and the great abund-
ance and varieties Of flowers, an eastern
tourist is impressed with the fact that
things are done here on q larger scale
than in the east. The business man talks
lightly of a five hundred thousand dollar
deal that would in the east cause much
comment and excitement in the financial
world. This Is truly the land Of chance
and Of big undertakings
Although / might write about any one
Of the twenty or thirty beach resorts within
an hours ride Of Los Angeles. including
Santa Monica, Long Beach, San Pedro.
Ocean Park. Playa del Rey. Hermosa.
inland resorts. will say a word about one
or two only Of the newest towns and pleas
ure resorts.
ocean Park. situated in the center of
the beautiful Santa Monica bay, Is q beach
resort twenty minutes ride from Los An
geles, and although this little Pacific ocean
town is hardly four years old it already
contains $500 vine-clad cottages. costing
dozen palatial hotels, two wooden piers
now being replaced by 100000 horseshoe
steel pier.
1.-The Inhabitants Of this four-year-old in
house next to the Suttro baths Of San
Francisco which contains $50 rooms
dozen different pools containing different
temperatures of salt and fresh water and
r. l.. 40 non N
Park that Senator Patton is building his
$3.50, coo hotel. and all this at a place that
was nothing but a sand doom three and
half years ago.
bott Kenny Is building the Venice Of
America The contractors have only been
at work six months and the 1agoons and
fifteen palatial hotels, a large $2OO,0OO bath
house and the marvellous twenty-seven-day
auditorium, having cost $4,000 containing
the same floor space as the Madison Square
Garden Of New York-all these and many
smaller places are nearly completed. MI
Kenny the multi-millionaire has already
expended about three and half millions
and expects to spend about that much more,
but he claims, and 1 think that his claim
is we'll founded, that in less than year
from the time when the contractors hrst
broke ground. he will throw open to the
world a Venice that will make the world
marvel. Mr.. Kenny will have more electric
lights his principal thoroughfare tnan
Here also a palatial boat hotel Is nearing
completion. SO you see the people in this
section of the country have Waldorfs, Saint
Regeses and New Wizards on land and sea-
Senator Patton had banquet spread on
board the new boat hotel and from his
speech Of welcome to his visitors 1t was
plainly evident that it Is the hustle, vim
and fearlessness Of our westerner that make
millionaires of men here in few years.
Men like Senator Patton, who are now let
ting 100000 contracts, a few years ago
were saving their first Ave thousand In the
east.
'.The electric car service here is regarded
as the best in the country. and 1t is said TO
be the finest in the world AS to that
cannot say. The total mileage Is about 20
miles, all electric, and the rolling stock IS
as good and on some OF the roads better
than on the IL and subway trains OF
New York. AS to speed the Los Angeles
Long Beach line Is admitted to be the
fastest in the country. The morning and
evening trains on this line go twenty-seVen
miles in twenty-nine minutes, and make
three stops The superintendent OF con-
struction informs me that the trains are
CAPABLE of making ninety-fve miles an
hour. and they did so until an ordinance
was passed forbidding such terrific speed.