Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-23
SUMMER CLINE
GROWS POPULAR
EQUITABLE TEMPERATURE Is
FILLING HOTELS
LOS ANGELES PROMISES TO BE
ALL-THE-YEAR RESORT
Paat Week Shows Record Business
at All the Big HosteIries in
the Downtown Dis
trict

That Los Angeles is rapidly assum-
ing it's proper place in the country as
an ideal summer resort is evidenced
by the great increase in the summer
hotel registration. The past week, ac-
cording to proprietors of the leading
Los Angeles hostelries, was one of the
best ever experienced from a hotel
viewpoint in the history of the bus
mess.
At many of the hotels the registra-
ton mark was as high as has been
attained in the winter months. AL
though the statement Is put forward
that visitors to and from the Seattle
exposition have been responsible for
the great increase in summer traffic,
the hotel clerks, who are in position
to know, assert that, while the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc exposition is the means
OF drawing many to Los Angeles, the
unusual summer registration is mainly
due to the fact that tourists have be-
come convinced that Los Angeles sum-
mer climate is ideal.
Heretofore, Los Angeles has been
doomed as q winter resort, the Mecca
for easterners who desire and are in
financial position to escape the
frigid blasts and inclement winter
weather.
1t was not until recently that the
fact became generally known TO the
country at large that Los Angeles was
Just as enviable a spot to escape the
heat and humidity as it was to shelter
thousands from the rigid eastern win
ters.
El<s Helped Progress
The visit of the thousands of Elks
is advanced as one great reason why
Los Angeles has become known as an
ideal summer resort, and another is
the fact that the present summer has
been one of the most torrid ever eX-
perienced in parts of the country out
side of Los Angeles.
An interview with the various hotel
proprietors and clerks in the leading
hotels of Los Angeles bears out the
fact that this has been the banner year
for summer tourists.
They also believe that the present
summer season is the commencement
of as great an influx of visitors to Los
Angeles as has been accommodated
in past winter months. The wonderful
all-the- -year-around climate is given as
the reason, and the fact that the nu-
merOuS conventions of national import
ance that recently have convened in
Los Angeles have been properly and
adequately cared for has been a factor
of inestimable Importance in boosting
Los Angeles.
At the Angelus hotel the registra-
ton for the past week has been fully
as large as at any time during the busy
winter months, and the capacity of
the hotel has been taxed to it's limit.
similar condition of affairs was re-
ported at the Alexandria, the Hay
ward, Lankershim, Hollenbeck, van
Nuys and other leading hotels.
Prosperity Back for Good
The unusual number of summer Vist-
tors also is regarded by the wise hotel
clerks as an indication of returning
prosperity in the United States. 1t Is
said by clerks who have had. years
of experience that the class Of Visl-
tors are mostly business men, jour
neying with their families, for COM
bined business and pleasure purposes,
who for the past two years have NOT
been in a position to leave their bust
ress interests, owing to the disturbed
and unsettled commercial conditions.
That the frequent mention or the
summer season" in Los Angeles as
the dull season" will soon be thing
of the past is the opinion of those
who have carefully studied sthe trend
of affairs, and that there will be no
such a thing as a dull season. in the
future, but that Los Angeles will en-
ioy busy summer and winter period