Arizona republican., 1911-05-31
TOURISTS RUSH TO
CALIFORNIA BEACHES
Summer Season Opens With Full
Hotels at Coast Resorts.

Long Beach. Cal. May 27.-(Special
Correspondence of The Republican,
The summer season is opening at the
beach resorts along the coast of
southern California much earlier than
usual this year, the regular summer
visitors beginning to pour in for two
or three months stay fully a month
before their usual arriving time I'm
doubtedly the hot wave which passed
over the states composing the great
southwest during the last week of
May caused this sudden influx Of
summer tourists to the seashOre.
Although they were not expected
quite so early, the beach resorts are
in readiness for them and little trOu-
BILE has been encountered is securing
accommodations this early. With the
season well under way. an idea Of
the size of the coming years business
can be gained. Anticipating heavy
year. the resorts have made gigantic
preparations and will offer TO the
residents of the hoEbelt of the south
west more attractive features during
the next two or three months than
ever before.
Long Beach will undoubtedly be
the Mecca of the autoists. The bond
issue authorized by the people of Los
Angeles county two years ago in the
cause Of good roads has been wisely
expended. and one of the finest motor
car boulevards in the state lies be-
tween Los Angeles and the beach city
mentioned This road is Oil-maCadam
all the way and is as smooth and
hard as pavement. Its advantages
have been discovered by local auto
lists and every Saturday and Sunday
sees a vast multitude of enthusiastic
motorists motoring to Long Beach.
with the Virginia Hotel as their rem
devious.
1t is probable that to encourage this
sort of traffic the city of Long Beach
will set aside block near the ocean
front which will be closed to Ordi-
nary travel and devoted exclusively to
an auto parkee. IL present plans do
not miscarry, a special officer of the
city will be detailed to patrol this
block to keep petty thieves and med
dIers from the automobiles, and own
ers may be assured that their cars
while in Long Beach are as safe as
in their own garages.
Not only are automObiling and the
good roads attracting numerous peO-
pie TO the beach. but a number of
other sporting features are acting as
magnets The Pacific States Lawn
Tennis championship will he played
on the courts of the Virginia hotel.
June l and e. and as the winner of
the championship goes to Newport
the following fall to play for the
championship of the United States, it
is attracting racket wielders' atten
ton to the beach. Another sporting
feature being offered is yachting. that
game having taken tremendous squirt
forward in the past few months. Long
Beach now has a club with a mem
bership numbering nearly 100 and
fleet of twenty of the fastest yachts
on the coast. whereas at this time
last year a scant half dozen made up
the membership. From the program
arranged by the club. the most sue
cessful season in yachting with the
most doing, will be in evidence this
summer.
Still another feature is the Virginia
Country club for golfers. This club
has a nine-hole course. covered with
short grass all the way. and during
the late spring a great deal of work
has been done on il by the directors
of the club. getting it into such condi-
ton that it now offers one of the
finest links in southern California TO
members and guests of the Virginia
hotel