The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-01-29

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your house." is the motto in Spanish
/ that greets you as you stand at the
main entrance-in other words
make yourself at home"
Then in the lobby, hung in con-
spicious place is this old homely
Scotch sentiment: "Ye Gamma ex-
pect to be bath grand and comfor-
| table, In other words-relax
stretch out, loaf and invite your soul
be comfortable.
/ / want to say, for the benefit of
| those who do not know otherwise,
that there was never any old mission
or church here or in Riverside. that
| this is new building from founda-
tions to the top of Carmel Tower;
| that the main building was erected
in 1902, the Cloister wing in 1910,
and the Spanish Wing in 1915.
The building is made of brick and
concrete Of the very best construc-
| ton and is as solid as a mountain.
The Mission Inn occupies an entire
city block, is three stories high, and
is built about three sides of a great
open cohrt full of lawn, shrubs,
flowers and tropisal plants. Around
three sides of this sourt ertends a
pergola, wide and high and covered
with running roses and vines full of
purple clustered grapes. The walls
of gray concrete are nearly hidden
by Boston ivy.
Everywhere are easy chairs, cool
ness, greenery, restfulness and COM
fort. and the bloom and fragrance
of flowers.
Some of the Features of the Inn.
THE CLOISTER MUSIC ROOM
AS we sit in the cool quiet of this
spacious and beautiful room we will
see many things that show how Mr..
Miller has succeeded in reproducing
the Mission atmosphere of the Eigh-
teenth Century.
By the way, this is not a chapel,
but the Cloister Music Room. There
is music here daily at one, five and
eight p. M, furnished by the cathe-
dral organ. When the shadows of
evening gather, and the lights in this
room are turned low. when you can
see but family the royal banners
and escutcheons with their cleaning
gold, the colors, mellowed with age,
of the ancient paintings, and the
CLINT of war-worn knightly armor
that adorns the walls-when the
rarely beautiful St. Cecilia windows
are softly lighted from without and
glow with sort of hidden fire of
life-then is the time that one can
best feel and appreciate the solemn,
4or 0f h.
To sit then in one of those stalls
of carven oak and hear those ripping,
whispering, surging tides of harmony
as the mighty instrument seems to
tell the story of human life-its
mystery, it's longings strivings,
fears hopes, desires and disappoint-
ments, its laughter and it tears, its
tragis mournfulness and it's stately,
upward-stepping marsh of pilgrims
into the sunlight of celestial fields
that is one of the experiences. never
to be forgotten, hat make so many
people glad that they ever pulled the
latch string at the Mission Inn.
The wooden beams overhead are
copies of those in the ceiling of the
San Miguel Mission, and the min
strels' gallery is copied from the bal
cony of that same mission.
Of the scenes that project from
the walls for are antique originals
from Spain. At the rear of the
room and on the front supporting
columns are two pairs of Seventeenth
Century carved silver-gilt pricket
candelabra from an ancient Spanish
church.
The candelabra on either side of
the floor are exact copies of rare
old original from Spain.
The Architecture of the Mission Inn.
It is a good plan to walk around
the outside of the Mission Inn, soon
after your arrival, and thus get a
proper perspective. Then you will
see on the East (Orange Street, side
reproduced in massive masonry with
flying buttresses, the side wall of the
| San Gabriel Mission.
On the top of each of these great
columns is to be a statue of heroic
nected with the history of the West
size representing some person con-
or with that of the Missions.
Around on the North (Sixth St.
side you will see the fachada or front
of the Santa Barbara Mission, and
J over the corner of Sixth and Orange
the imposing dome of the Carmel
/ Mission.
AS you enter the hotel from
Seventh Street you pass under the
colonnade of arches of the San Fer
nando and Capistrano Missions and
your auto steps almost in front OF
the campanile of the San Gabriel
| Mission.
This is to say, the architect, Mr.
! Arthur B. Benton, and Mr.. Miller
have incorporated in this Mission Inn
the characteristic features of Mission
! architecture as found in the princi
pal old missions.
am indebted to Mr. Miller per
sonally for an auto trip, (his own
new Peerless hmousene) for q triI
through Riverside and vicinity ant
up Rubidoux mountain. .
Rubidoux Mountain. named for al
early French settler, is seen to the
Northwest 1t is about 1400 fee
above sea level. A safe, well built
auto road, known as Huntington
Drive, winds about the mountain tt
| the summit.
/ On the highest part stands lofty
and imposing cross, placed there ii
memory of Fray Junipero Sierra. the
Apostle, Legislator and Builder. A
the base of the cross is a bronze tab
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