Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
DRY TOWN
HAS OA SIS
FOR THIRSTY
INVESTIGATOR LANDS IN LAP
OF LUXURY
FINDS HOTEL WHERE DRINKS
ARE AVAILABLE
Monrovians Have No Need to Go
Thirsty if They Are "in the
know"-Stranger Gets
Beer
BY WINFIELD 5. MORGAN


There are three answers to the ques-
ton. How to Get a Drink at Monrovia?"
Visit La Vista Grande hotel, have a
friend Sin the know" or take the car
for the five-minute run to Arcadia, where
the incorporated town is "open" and
where good-fellowship floats in the air.
These conditions apply only to the
stranger making his. first visit to Mon
rovia. After he Is known it is different
am told,
But as for the initial undertaking
can't recommend you to more restfully
pretty little hostelry in this immediate
section of the state where mind and eye
as we'll as the inner man may find the
joy sought.
Set well back on a shady lawn and
approached by well graded walks, fianked
on either side by flower beds and cactus
borders, La Vista Grande is picture
well worth seeing. Huge palm trees,
pine and eucalyptus trees fend off the
suns rays during the heated part OF the
day and form little natural arbors for
the lounger. A broad veranda crosses
the front of the house, with comfy
looking arm chairs and rockers to be-
guile the weary.
Inside a wide, spacious lobby, yet not
so wide as to be unhomelike, opens into
inviting, we'll furnished parlors, while
the office desk and fixtures meet the
eye in the background.
don't know when have seen place
which so delicately suggested home COM
forts with the freedom from care of the
public inn. 1t is we'll worth visit to
know the appeal the place makes.
Gets His Bottle
well groomed woman, the nouse-
keeper, I suppose, greeted my request
for something cool and Wet by an in
vitation to the dining room, and down
the short hallway 1 followed her into the
snug. low yet airy dining room, it's tables
agleam with snowy napery and shining
silverWare Back to a table near the
windows and the side porch she took me,
pulling forth the chair into which l sank
willingly enough.
''The proprietor just keeps little sup
ply on hand for the house guests the
servitor explained as she left me to
glide back presently with the cold pottle
sought.
All. that was a drink worth while! The
day was hot and dusty and my throat
was parched and dry.
Slowly / slipped and enjoyed the bev-
erage; then rose and departed.
For the nonce my usual good fortune
deserted mel couldn't find man in
the know who would pilot me or fur
nisb me with the information necessary
for me to ''pilot" myself.
sThe real way to get drink is to do
as everybody here who can possibly
spare the time does" was the reply re-
turned to my inquiry for information
take Hhe car over to Arcadia"
did.
When Lucky" Baldwin secured the
incorporation of Arcadia he knew what
he was about. The place is smaller now
by quite little, in point of actual resi-
dents, than it was when incorporated.
but it's a delightful little village. And
it's an "open" town, to a very liberal
extent The seeker after refreshments
has not far from the car line to travel.
The finding is so easy after you arrive
at Arcadia that l shall not even tell
about it. It's there-that's enough.