Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
LOS ANGELES IS
SUMMER RESORT
RAILROAD OFFICIAL PREDICTS
HEAVY TOURIST TRAVEL
CHEAP WARM-WEATHER RATES
ARE MADE
LARGE Number of Persons En- Route
to Seattle Exposition Will
Come First to Angel
City

Los Angeles has at last, or soon WILL
come into her own as a summer re-
sort, according to c. j. Donaldson
general excursion manager 1or INC
Rock Island system, with oHlces III
Boston and Chicago. Mr.. Donaldson
is registered at the LankerShlm. lie
will be on the southern coast for sew
eral DAYS, and incidentally is here TO
look after the preliminary arrange
ments for the Boston delegation to the
Elks' grand lodge meeting. The Bos-
ton delegation will have quarters at
the LankerShim.
Traffic from Boston, New York and
many other eastern points this sum-
mer to the Pacific coast Will be pne-
nomenal," said Mr.. Donaldson, ou
will hear people say that TINS Is pc
cause of the Elks' convention in Los
Angeles and the Alaska Y ukon-Pacific
exposition in Seattle, which to some
extent is true. But this is no more
than a superficial view, as a closer
ANALYSIS of the situation Will snow. L
am in a position to speak with SOME
degree of certainty as to tourist traNel
to the Pacific coast this year, ana L
can predict safely very much greater
travel to Southern California than ever
before in the summer.
AS any GdllIOdQ Alleiii NAiA tNA'S ~
the travel to Seattle will be larger
over the northern lines than over the
southern lines, And any railroad man
will tell you that the number OF people
coming to Los Angeles on account OF
the Elks convention, meeting that
any city is proud of, will be only q
drop in the bucket to the total travel
westward from eastern points. Bos-
ton, for instance, will be represented
by about 200 members of the order,
while the number of Boston people VINO
will come west this summer and spend
their vacations in Southern California,
middle California and the northwest
coast will be hundreds more. Thls
merely illustrates the true conditions
Summer Rates Made
"I will go a step further and give a
good cause for this unprecedented slt-
uation. AS traffic men know, hundreds
of wealthy fasteners spend their VIM
ters in Florida and Havana, put thls
wear. owing to the very strenuous
weather, they remained at home. They
still have their vacations before them.
AS Los Angeles is better understood
now than ever as a summer resort,
hundreds of these people are coming
west.
at is for this reason and for no
other that the railroads have made
special tourist summer rates, some
thing they have not done before. You
can depend on it no big railroad sys-
TEN ever does a thing of this sort
without a thorough knowledge of the
situation"
MIR. Donaldson said that the Harri-
man lines had made rate from Chi
caeo to Seattle via Los Angeles OF
S62. so for the round trip, while the rate
from Chicago to Los Angeles via Sc
attic and return to Chicago is $7l.2o.
In other words, tourists, in order to
get the lowest rate, will be brought
through Los Angeles, hauled north to
Seattle and sent back east over the
northern route for less money than IT
will cost them to go first to Seattle
and return east by way Of Los An
geles. This is in favor of Los Angeles
and guarantees an unusually large
tourist trade" for the Angel city this
summer.
Los Angeles, according to Mr. Don
aldson, is being thoroughly advertised
in the east as a summer resort as well
as a winter resort.