Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
SANTA MONICA AROUSED
To GREATEST ACTIVITY
Contractors Busy, and Big Force
of Men Making the
Dirt Fly

The contract for grading and cement
work at Seaside Terrace tract, SANTA
Monica. which has 775 feet OF peach
frontage running back 500 feet deep
to Ocean avenue, and Whlch hes Ju9I
a little north of Hollister avenue pier
and is connected with Ocean PARK anu anu
Venice with new ocean front concrete
promenade, has been awarded to FREQ
II. stout. He has commenced assem-
hing his camp outfit on the terrace
grounds. He will have one of the
most complete grading and cement out
fits that was ever in Santa Monica. a
fine oil painting of the new tract,
showing the way it VIII look "Ieh 1t
is completed, has been hung on ocean
Front promenade side of Seaside Ter
race company office.
Mr.. Stout will have forty to fifty
head of mules at work with all mou-
ern scrapers and grading machinery.
and old Arcadia hotel landmark VIII
soon be converted into most oeauulul
seaside tract in Los Angeles county,
All of the high class palms ana
shruhberv of the old Arcadia park will
be used in beautifSing the new tract
and in addition 1000 palm trees Of ar
ferent varieties are to be planted IN
parking spaces of the Paclflc, Ar
cadia and Seaside Terraces.
This tract will be about five minutes
walk from Pier avenue, Santa Monica
and is Just a nice distance for location
of beautiful seaside holhes anu ms"
class apartments.
Mr.. Stout was the man who did sucn
fine work in laying out of Hollywood
Park place and a number of other
high class subdivisions in and about
Hollywood.
The Riverside Portland Cement COM
pany, of which Henry w. Keller, form
ta1 iG
leading spirits, has secured the con-
tract for 1000 barrels of Portland ce-
ment that will be used in this tract.
Every street, terrace, staircase, auto
way and sidewalk will be finished IN
concrete. There will be no dust or
dirt and, being at the seashore, there
will be no SCOT possible.
RAPID TRANSIT SERVICE
The air line flyer branch of the Los
Anegels-Pacific railroad which Is the
old Southern Pacific right of way OF
years ago, makes the trip today from
Fourth and Hill streets station to Sea-
side Terrace in just thirty-tive min
utes. 1t is the shortest route from Ihe
citv to the sea, and when the subway
and elevated system of the Los Ange-
les-Pacific is completed Seaside Ter
race tract will be within fifteen min
utes of the heart of the city: in tact,
every part of Santa Monica Bay VIII
be within twenty minutes.
The city of Santa Monica is haVlng
SURVEYS made to establish the grade
lines for Fremont avenue, which has
recently been opened fully eighty feet
wide from the city limits to the sea,
and when finally completed 1t VIII con-
meet with PicO street, Los Angeles, at
Santa Maria street via Tennessee ave
nue.. SaWtelle, First street through n
r-f1-lNr nj
become a graded and paved automoblIe
thoroughfare. The Good Roads boule-
ward. being constructed via Wilshlre
boulevard, Beverly and Soldiers. Home
is almost completed. Electric drive or
sherman boulevard, which is beng
constructed as a continuation OF Wash-
ington street to Fourth street, PAINS
thence paralleling the Los Angeles "a
cific short line, is becoming more OF
reality every day.
santa. Monica is destined to become
the ocean front city of Greater Los An
geles.
annex all of the Santa Monica bay dls-
trict, and the city council has aireauy
been requested to make application 10
Los Angeles for the owens river aque-
duct water service.
The Carl F. Schader Seaside Terrace
tract will be first new subdivision TO
come on the market This tract Is pc
ing laid out by the Hellman-Schader
syndicate. which syndicate, 1t Is under
stood, is already negotiating for more
ocean front property. Few people real
ize the great increase in value of ocean
front property; not a foot OF property
that has been subdivided into town
lots facing on ocean front promenade
can be purchased north of Pier avenue
through TO Hollister avenue for less
than 5000 a foot. There are only few
pieces of unsubdiyided property north
of this point.
Schader's syndicates have acquired
775 feet where old Arcadia stood ana
319 feet at Fremont avenue, known as
Vicente Terrace.
This will practically close out all OF
the available property between the new
municipal pier and Frazer's proposed
million dollar Pier avenue pier.
North of the municipal pier sand pc
comes very narrow but it is under
stood the Gillis- Gorham syndicate are
NEGOTIATING for the sale of the entire
beach frontage to Santa Monica can
yon, the proposition being to continue
the ocean front romenade through 10
old Santa Monica canyon.