Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-21


Gadsden hotel at Douglas, Ariz., is
the man selected for the job by the
King Edward company, and from all
reports they couldn't have made bet
ter selection.
The new manager Is well known all
over the west and has host of friends
among the travellers. When he went
to the Gadsden last fall it was, to say
the very least, not a paying PROPOSE
tion. Tommy Law, as his friends af-
fectionately know him, made the hotel
go. And now he is coming to Los An
geles He will take charge of the
King Edward May l.
In regard to what they think Of Mr..
Law out in Douglas the Douglas Dis
patch in an editorial says:
For the past seven months Thomas
W. Law has been the successful man
ager of the Hotel Gadsden. His friends
affectionately call him Tommy Law
and he has never suffered loss of dig
nifty or self-respect by the application
of the familiar title. The Dispatch
hates to see Tommy go. He is an op-
timist. He is everlastingly looking on
the bright side of things. He knows
humanity and loves to be taken into
its condolences He gives out good will
and his presence in the hotel has been
blessing to every guest. Travelling
men have come from all over the Unit
ed States, scores of them going out OF
their way, just to spend q night under
the hosptable roof of Tommy Law
He never forgets face or a name and
his glad mitt is always out to the ar
riving or departing guest. He is go
ing to enter the larger field at Los
Angeles The Dispatch will send him
the heartiest of Gods speed. The
world is in need of just such embodi-
ments of sunshine in every walk of
life as the genial Tommy Law"
When the hotel men were here some
Of them spoke of the local apartment
houses and strictly tourist hotels with
just d shade of criticism, not meaning
anything by their words, you under
stand, but at the same time inimat-
ing that while the larger hotels of
Los Angeles are "all there" as far as
class is concerned, the apartment
houses and smaller hostelries can hard
ly be compared with those in the east
of the same nature.
Evidently the hotel men saw only
the exterior of this class of hotels. Ii
they had investigated, say the Leigh
ton, the Hinman, the Pepper or the
Alvarado, out in the fashionable West
lake district it's just possible that they
would have changed their minds. Be
fore they arrived they did not believe
half the things they had heard about
Southern California and her hotels.
They were convinced about most OF
the facts but seemed to have let the
outlying hotels slip by.
At any rade, If the eastern apart
ment houses and winter hotels are
furnished and have the appointments
which excel those in Los Angeles, they
are going some. How many hotels and
apartments in the east have cut glass
and hand-painted china in them, How
many have a stock of silVerWare at
the service of each guest, that would
make any hotel in the country green
with envy? How many, do you sup
pose? They may have just as good but
how many have better? The hotel men
surely did not investigate the local
apartment houses very thoroughly be-
fore they made their statements.
Funny how some of these easterners,
no matter what their education or in
tellectual attainments, still cling to
the idea of a wild and woody west. y
The following told by Clerk Al Selby
of the Holienbeck, is an apt illustra-
tion.
A young "Bostonese," just out from
the hub, fell for horseback riding the
first day he struck Los Angeles. Every
afternoon he phoned Dan Hogan to
send him the best in the barn (also the
gentlesD and occasionally he let the
order go double-just to accommodate
friend-a lady friend. by the way.
Well, the boy from the city of un-
excelled high browism, and his com
panion, were riding in the vicinity of
Toluca. The talk had drifted onto the
subject of how tame the west was, and
equestrian and equestrienne sighed
dismally because of dearth of excite
ment.
They swung around curve in the
road. and there, on the porch of an
adobe ranchhouse and in full view of
the road, was a party of armed men.
Trussed to a pillar of the veranda was
a chapararro- clad cowboy" surround
ed by other denizens of the range, be-
spurred and bechapped, and each with
his trusty rifle across the pommel of
his saddle. The lSneeling, suppliant fig-
ure of a beautiful "cow girl added
lust what was needed to complete the
picture. and the down caster began
to figure on the best way to eliminate
himself and fair companion from what
looked like a bloody episode.
However, curiosity overcame all else,
and the visitors stuck around, expect
ing every moment to see the trussed-
up cowboy riddled with bullets. Just as
the fatal climax was about to be real
shouted That's enough for today"
Two saddened fasteners returned
slowly to the city. Their dream of the
wild and woody had been shattered by
an odlous moving picture machine
and the company which serves TO make
it successful.
The leighton hotel of West Sixth
street has enjoyed one of the most
nrosperous seasons during the past
winter that it has ever known. The
house usually with only a few guests
left this late in the season is still run
ming full almost to capacity and there
promises to be no let-up in the arriv-
ais.
Among those who have registered at
the Leighton recently are: c. j. Hay
Ter and wife, who have taken apart
ments for the summer; George Adams,
mining engineer of London, Eng;
Mai. M. Benson, II. S. army, retired,
and his daughter, Miss Maud Benson.
One of the many functions which
have been held in the Leightons pretty
dining room of late was the dinner
party given Tuesday by Mr.. and Mrs.
A. B. Yoeman of Winona, MINI. The
guests We're, Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Hyde,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Boothe and Miss
Boothe. Mr.. and Mrs. Yoeman left
Yesterday for their home in Winona,
but promise to return to the Leigh
toms hospitable roof next season.
At the Hinman things also have
gone we'll during the past winter and
here too the winter visitor is becom-
ing the all-year-round guest. Just by
way of. comment the Hinman is prob
ably one of the finest furnished apart
ment houses on the Pacific coast Cor