Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-14
RUSHING WORK ON
THE WENTW0RT
MILLION DOLLAR HOSTELRY
FOR CROWN CITY
Proprietor Returns From Business
Trip East and Is Delighted With
Progress Made at Oak
Knoll
Pasadena Agency,
1917 East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main 702

Telephone Main 52
! PASADENA, Aug. 13.-General and
Mrs. Wentworth returned to Pasadena
late last night and are today safely
installed i'm the beautiful home of Rev.
M. ]. Mcleod on San Pasqual street.
Rev. Mcleod being abroad for six
months and having rented his residence
for that term to General Wentworth.
Before the end of the lease It Is hoped
to have the new Hotel Wentworth or
the wentworth bungalow at Oak Knoll
ready for occupancy.
General wentworth has passed busy
season In the furniture marts of the
east making purchases for the new
hotel, furnishings for which, by the way,
have cost in the neighborhood of $780,
| 900. He returns to see that in his brief
absence the work on the big hotel has
progressed far better than he had any
| idea IL would
None of the bothersome delays con-
tractors must usually count upon have
appeared, the material and the work.
men have been promptly on the ground
and the building operations have made
wonderful progress.
General wentworth visited the hotel
grounds early this forenoon and ex-
pressed his qualification at the condi-
tion in which he found everything.
Maze OF IurretS
To casual observer the greatest
confusion prevails about the hotel site,
but somehow or other a regular maze
of mighty turrets and walls and ce-
ment pillars are rising at the grounds,
and with a little explanation the out
line of the great hotel can be seen.
The site for the hotel lies at the ex-
treme south end of Oak Knoll, on the
hill overlooking the orange groves and
the hills to the south.
A half mile to the southeast stands
the famous old mill Ell Molino of mis-
sion days, with Mission lake and the
extensive grounds of the Country club.
Beyond the dark green of the nearer
orange groves runs the electric line
branching off of the short line and
stretching eastward to Monrovia. To
the west lie the groves and fields reach
ing toward Alhambra and South Pasa-
dena.
An electric road branches off of the
Monrovia line and runs along side the
hotel, losing itself along the curving
drives of Oak Knoll which surrounds
the hotel grounds on the north, having
been completed as yet no further than
the hotel.
Several hundred men are busily en-
gagged about the hotel walls, and even
while one watches it seems as though
grow rapidly into the air.
Largest In California
The hotel itself will be the largest as
concerns area covered, in California.
General Wentworth informed a reporter
today that this is true, the great cara
vansary covering full ten acres
1t is interesting to notice with what
care the beautiful oak and other trees
about the hotel grounds are being pre-
served by the workmen.
In several places it looks as though
the building makes an unexpected and
often curious jog for the sake of some
ancient live oak tree, and this is proba-
bly, true for the story has gone out
and has not been denied, that General
Wentworth requested his architects
wherever possible to provide for saving
the trees. Certain 1t is that few spots
in this vicinity are more favored with
forest and shade trees of natural
growth.
These, as preserved, will add thou
sands of dollars to the worth of the
hotel grounds when they have finally
passed through the hands of the land
scape gardeners to whom General
Wentworth intends to give over the
grounds as soon as possible.
Few people in this city at least know
the amount of work being done at the
hotel site, the walls as they now stand
being almost completely hidden by the
foliage between them and the city.
Then, too, the roads and walks of Oak
Knoll have until now been almost i'm
passable.
The extensive work of improvement
projected by the Huntington people is
now taking form and the hotel grounds
can easily be reached.
1t is expected that thousands OF curl
GUS sightseers will visit the grounds
from now on.
Crown City Notes
Patrolman Coping began two
weeks vacation today. He expects to
start for San Francisco tomorrow to
spend most of the time there and at
Santa Rosa.
The question Of drawing the trade of
Sierra Madre and other nearby places
was the chief topic of discussion to-
night at the regular meeting of the
directors of the Merchants association.
No definite action was taken.
A large crowd of Alhambra Elks were
the guests tonight of the local herd, a
novel vaudeville show being prepared
especially in their honor The affair
was strictly stag and was one Of the
most enjoyable yet given by local
Elkdom.
Humane Agent McAney and Consta-
BILE Newell visited the camp of Roy
Lowman of Los Angeles today at Camp
Pinon. Reports have come telling of
cruel treatment given the horses at the
camp. Lowman was warned to i'm
prove in the matter and readily agreed.
No arrests were made, although con-
.i1a,-o hIa o,roiInd fOf. the c0mnIainta