Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-25
TOURISTS FLOCK
TO BIG HOTELS
Los ANGELES WEATHER IS
MAGNET FOR ALL
Summer Equally as Pleasant ss Win.
ter In Southern callfornla--Com-
mereial Travellers Praise the
Climate Of Angel City

Summer tourists are crowding the
hotels of Los Angeles, according to
statements of the proprietors of the
leading hotels Of this city.
Every day the list Of arrivals are in
creasing over the day previous, say the
hotel men.
The distinction that although many
tourists who have visited here are leav-
ing, the arrivals of the same day are
greater than the departure. has been
made by Chief Clerk w. H. Sibbald Of
the Hotel Alexandria, and Andrew Lee
chief clerk of the Hotel Lankershim.
"The reason for this" said Mr.. slb-
bald at the Hotel Alexandria, "is that
the travelling public is rapidly learning
that Los Angeles is equally as great a
summer resort as winter. The past
winter season with the tremendous
tourist travel has done much to adver-
tise Los Angeles.
Many of the winter tourists that left
here toward the close of the last season
came here as the close Of last summers
season. The worst they could say about
Los Angeles was that 1t was equally as
Climate Does 1t
"The reason Los Angeles is so extern
sively advertised as a winter resort is
due to the difference between the cli-
mate here and that of any other place
in the world during the winter" said
Mr.. Lee, chief clerk of Hotel Lanker-
shin, yesterday. This is of course
generally understood. With the present
I'D h. IT,
season bids to rival even the past
winter.
For a time between the close of the
winter season and the opening of the
summer season this year the arrivals
were exceptionally few. Then, SEEM
ingy of a sudden, the arrivals COM
menced to pour in and at times there
has been an increase of 30 per cent over
the business during the corresponding
time last year."
San Franciscans Coming
I'VE have a daily average of seven
arrivals from San Francisco" said
Harry Loomis of the Hotel Angelus
yesterday. THE earthquake and fire
brought a great many San Franciscans
here, but now a number of the Golden
Gale city arrivals come merely for
visits of varied lengths.
"Our heaviest arrivals are from
eastern cities. No particular city seems
to lead the list One would naturally
think that New York arrivals would be
more than any other, but that is not
the case. Little towns in the remotest
parts of Maine are well represented"
From the Southwest
arrivals from Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas and Oklahoma are scattered all
over our register continually" said
Alan Peterson of the Van Nuys. Res
idents from that part of the country
come to Los Angeles in great numbers
every summer in order to avoid the heat
in the south and southwest. When ar
rivals from the latter states are asked
what their missions to Los Angeles are
they reply that they have come out to
cool off and get away from the suffoca-
ton of the desert"
On comparing the number of arrivals
of one hotel to another yesterday for
several weeks the Hollenbeck showed a
greater average than any hostelry. A
great number of these were found to be
travelling statesmen. Several of the
salesuen who are at present located at
the Hollenbeck say that no place in the
United States has at present so de-
lightful a climate as Los Angeles.
At the Westminster hotel Dan Muir
ply, chief clerk, called attention to the
fact that there was a more cosmopoli-
tan gathering at that house than any
other. Jamaica, New Zealand, Samoa,
Ceylon, Sweden, Palestine, Russia and
South Africa all were represented dur
ing the past fortnight on the register