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Our beautiful rn-w store, with its light, airy and sanitary workshop, oin* large force of expert operatives in every department, and careful attention to every detail enal)les us to give that prompt and efficient service which is one of the greatest essentials in the giving of perfect satisfaction. Our Mr. A. Greene personally supervises every detail of all orders. Our San Diego branch, which has been established several years, is in charge of our Mr. Charles Greene, insuring the same service as in the Los Angeles store. A complete line of seasonable woolens in standard and exclu- sive weaves and patterns always in stock. A. GREENE & SON Exclusive Ladies' Tailors 745 South Broadway, Los Angeles STANDARD GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO AND THE PANAMA- CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION C ONTAINS an accurate description of all points of interest. Gives the history, progress and development of Los Angeles and vicinity including the Exposition at San Diego. 1916 Locates and describes all places of general importance such as parks, churches, theatres, banks, hotels, public buildings, retail and wholesale shopping districts, cafes, amusement places, etc. Each topic treated in strict alphabetical order. Includes Notable Hotels of Southern California and Special Pleasure Trips for the Tourist. FULLY ILLUSTRATED Copyright 1916 by the Official Publishing Co., Los Angeles j^jj Rights Reserved Co m p i I e a ana P u h I i s li c d h v t li e OFFICIAL PUBLISHING CO. BUILDING OJ LOo ArSlCjiLLvli/S CALIFORNIA Visit Los Angeles' Leading Jewelry House Every city has its chief jew- elry establishment. In Los Angeles, that house is S, Nordlinger & Sons — continu- ously in business since 1869, when Los Angeles was a mere ''pueblo." 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O IS6S 631 "T 63 3 SOUTH LOOKING EAST ALONG EL PKADO Panama-California International Exposition SAN DIEGO, 1916 Description Prepared by the Department of Exploitation and Publicity America's plavgTouiid is this y^ai' estab- lished in Southern California with its caj^i- tal at San Diego, where the Panama-Cali- fornia International Exposition is being- held after a year's successful operation of the Panama-California Exposition. En- couraged by the success attending' the 1915 exposition, plans for the 1916 inter- national fair were made before the one of 1915 passed out of existence, and thus San Diego, as no other city in the world had ever done, boasts of a two-year expo- sition. This is a record achievement for a municipality and contributes a new era ill exposition history. Now in all of its glory and si)leiidor, the Panama-California International Exposi- tion is a going concern, pulsating with life and teeming with attractions. Augmented l)y the j^rincipal foreign exhibits from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Eraiicisco, which was closed Decem- ber 4, 1915, the display at San Diego in- vites world attention. The man at the head of this project, (t. a. Davidson, who piloted the Exposi- ticni through a year's satisfactory opera- tion, sees in this year the climax of ex- position endeavor. ''Make the Exposition contribute a higher type of internation- alism" is President Davidson's slogan. In the transportation of visitors to the Exposition the railroads must now reckon with a formidable rival. This is the auto- mobile, and the popularity and feasibility of transcontinental touring to the Exjiosi- tion is evidenced each day in the arrival of cars from many States east of the Mississippi. A striking example of the automobile's importance in the transpor- tation of Exposition visitors is seen daily in Southern California, where magnifieent concrete highways bear the tread of mo- tor's wheels. Situated only 140 miles from Los Angeles, the drive to the Exposi- tion over the State Highway of concrete is one of pleasure. Skirting the azure blue of the Pacific, which rolls its waters up in ]ilay on sandy beaches, this highway follows the coast line for much of its route, taps a fertile country and unfolds scenic wonders to the motorist. (lenerously have the nations of the world contributed their best that their re- sources and possibilities may be absorbed by the Exposition visitor, and equally as PATIO— SCIENCE AND EDUCATION BUILDING 6 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEdO STANDARD CIUIDE G. A. DAVIDSON President of the Exposition <>'enerous is the Exposition 's housing' of the foreign dis^Dlays, dechired by critics to be the best and most representative ever Mssembled lor a showing to a cosmopolitan pcrsonneL The riches of the world have l)een dumped into a beauty-spot where na- Inre's handicraft has been indelibly stamped with the skill of man. It is like the assembling of a Sheba's jewels in palaces ornate, not for gaudy exterior decoration but for sheer architectural l)eauty and correctness. Throwing- open its gates January 1, 1916, the Panama-California International Exposition began a year's operation under the most auspicious circumstances. From the four quarters of the globe came mes- sages of encouragement and congratula- tions, punctuated with well wishes for the success of the venture. And while a great crowd passed through the gates and at- tended the opening ceremonies, commercial Patriotic Demonstration of School Children SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES BUILDING 7 T.OS ANOELES-RAN DTEOO STANDARD GUTDE L()OKIN<; ACROSS THE FORMAL GARDEN OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFOUXIA COrxriES BUILDING One of tile F.xpositioii PaLaces America .uaped at San Diego's boldness in making' history with two years of Exposi- tion. Snpported by a financial and moral loy- alty characteristic of Sonthern California, endowed with nature's blessing's and a climate which makes for successful out- door display every month of the year, ex- ploited by the cosmopolite for its ever- present tonic for jaded nerves and seized by the student as the vehicle of higher education of the masses, the Exposition is Inlaying' a prominent part in the world of big- enterprises. No exposition in the past has been like it. Tt is different from the (inc wliich closed in December, 1915, at San Francisco. It contains the best of this one's featnres and becoming heir to the Panama-California Exposition it seized the cream of its attractions and set the whole in an atmosphere of artistic attain- ments which balk the pen of the most facile writer and halt the brush of a mas- ter painter. Arrangements which make for continuity of sightseeing without inconvenience are 8 LOS AN(;KI.KS-SA\ DIKJIO STANDAin) (MIDI LAkGK.ST ()L:TI)()(JR OUliAN I\ THE WORLD 0\ WHICH DAILY KKtTTALS ARE C.I\ I'.X notioed. The mammoth t'oreig'ii displays are shown iu the exhibition palaces along El Prado. Occnpying an entire bnilding- is Canada's exhibit. Long would the traveler search the universe to tind a more comprehensive exhibit of a country's resources. Canada is not an infant iu the exhibition game, and there is an in- dividuality about this display which marks it for instant and lasting attention. Canada, a country where government- owned enterprises have succeeded, exhibits at this P]xposition under government pat- ronage and direction. The Canadian ex- hibit is made by the government with a permanent Exposition Commission in charge, of which Colonel William Hutchin- son is the head. Well has Canada drawn on its fertile provinces for material, and lil)erally has its great railroads contrib- uted. It is a picture of thrift, prosperity and progress, presented to the Exposition visitor in a manner which is as impressive to the mind as it is pleasing to the eye. In one panel the visitor will see the re- })roduction of an orchard — the next may show the heyday of harvest time, with fields From One of the Restful Balconies ORNATE ENTRANXE TO FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ARTS BUILDING 10 I.OS AX'(!KLK8-SAN DIKdO STAX'DAin) ClIDK l)ii\vlii.i>' heavy with n'oldoii iiraiii. A^aiii it is Indiistrv's wheel whieli I'uniishes llie |iieture, and thus Iheic is presented in a kaleidoseopic inaniier the best disphiy any (•(punlrv e\t'i' nia(h' at any e.\|)()sit ion. Thouiih it \\uilding and art. Petite France has indeed made the most of its reputation for artistic edu- cation, and not the least important part is the art display, valued at thousands of dollars. On down the list of foreign participation, creditable and attractive displays are made by other governments. The Italian, Span- ish, Netherlands and Russian, as well as the Swiss and Chinese, are the largest the respective countries have made at any ex- position. From the four quarters of the compass there is an array of exhibit ma- terial that gives the visitor a travel educa- tion that is not compassed by miles of journey. Though the Exposition is International in theme and consequently in name, the United States contributes its part, and its l)art takes i-ank with that shown by other nations. America's manufacturing is com- ing into its own at the Exposition. Here the visitor sees a panorama of making rather than a pietui-e of linished product. The Exposition is an exposition of processes. Today you see the seed planted — tomorrow comes the plant's pro- pagation and care, while succeeding days record it in full bloom. Then the process is repeated again and again that there may be an ever-present program of diversity for patrons. Foreign representation is of such large proportions that even an able linguist would be halted in conversing in the na- tive tongue with the foreign attendants at the Exposition. Nothing short of Es- peranto will do. (^ueer types indeed are these foreigners to our impetuous and business-going Americans. Here the vi.sitor sees the Turk regaled in fez and colorful costume. He passes a native Hawaiian belle whose charms are displayed as nature intended and where little is left to the imagination. Then he sees a type from 11 LOS ANGELES-SAN DTKOO STANDARD GUIDE A ('ilini|)se of Hawaii at the Exposition Piccadilly, and again the languid spirit of Spain is reiiected, for now tunefnl notes of a mandolin and guitar accompany pretty senoritas as they sing ''La Paloma" fi'om a balcony, or display terpsichorean effort in the expansive plazas. Then there is sunny Italy, and well do its representa- tives fit into the picture. Thus there is contributed in a few days' visit to the Expo.sition a knowledge of foreign climes which the average American had never hoped to acquire. The great Southwest, where salubrity of climate and fertility of soil make a ten- acre tract, under intensive farming, seem like a king's estate, is set down at the Exposition in clever arrangement. Domi- nating the southern end of the grounds, each displaying individuality in architec- ture, are the State buildings. It is in these that the homeseeker learns what the South- west has to offer for the settler. He learns the price of land, the State's resources, its ti'ansportation facilities and thousands of other items of data which he had never dreamed had been compiled for his bene- fit. Such a plan as that in vogue at the State buildings in interesting the home- seeker is followed at the headquarters of the various California counties. Some counties have contributed to the common P.\NORAMA SHOWING BUILDINGS ALONG EL PRADO, THOROUGH EARE THE EXPOSITION'S MAIN 12 LOS AX(!KLKS-SAX T)IF,(IO STANDAIM) < )E (•;iiis(' III' (lispliiv ill lioiisiiiL;' llicir ('.\liil)its in a scclidiial l)iiil(lin.i;', wliilc ollici's, pret'crinj;' a strict iiidividiialily, are ('xliil)ilin,<;- singly. Trobably no better denionsti'ation of Soutli- cni California's great productiveness was ever seen than that going on constantly at the model farm, maintained by the Sdul licni California counties. Here on a mere pittance of land the visitor is shown Sdiiilicni California's productiveness when inodcni methods of intensive fai'ming are aiiplicd. This small faiiii. or ranch as Californians are wi)nl to term it, yields a continuous crop and profit. This month's I'eturns are I'olling in from the oranges and lemons. Last month it was the straw- berries and early gardening which gave the profit, while next will yield a gain from other vai'ieties of fruit, berries and vegetables; and while these are being raised and marketed, water's magic touch sends alfalfa shooting up for several crops a year. But revenue from farming in Southern California does not stop here, so the model farm shows, for no month in the _year confines the activity of chickens and turkeys. Visitors at the Exposition marvel at the arrangement of this farm, and it gives a better knowledge of South- ern California's possibilities for the home- seeker than would be given by thousands of square feet devoted to a display of prize-winning pumpkins, as was the ex- hibit theme in expositions of yester yeai's. Si)anisli TrdubadDurs The Ivxposilidii's chai'iii is by no means confined to international connnercial dis- play, for the aits have a ])rominent part. Here music oi' professional character en- tertains tlu' visitor daily. Aside from the several concerts given by military and other famous Ijands, the daily organ re- cital is an e\(M'-i)opular entertainment. This recital is played on the largest out- door organ in the world — the gift to the city of San Diego by A. B. and John I). Spreckels. With its building- it represents an investment df ."i^lOO.OOO and stands as a monument to the liberality and public- si)iritedness of its doiKns. Like the mam- ho.mp: economy and foreic.n arts huilding on the plaza de Panama 13 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE niotli industrial exhibits are a display (»i;' business acumen, the organ exercises a patronizing influence in the advancement of music. Throughout the year great choruses will be heard, and world-famed ai-tists will sing at frequent intervals. An exposition is a strange institution in l)rogram. It must be the home of diver- sity, for the effete Easterner might not care for agricultural display, or the open- handed Westerner might disdain priceless art treasures. An exposition must be for the masses, and when the gates were thrown open January 1, such was the arrangement. Some would care, it was known, for inquisitive study of man 's ancestry, as furnished through the display pertaining to prehistoric man. Yet others would scorn such a highly intellectual pilgrimage and seek entertainment in sur- roundings where King Joy rules with un- disputed sway. It was on account of con- sideration given to this subject that a Joy Street was provided. On this thorough- fare, extending practically from Ei Prado to the North Gate, carnival and gaiety set the stage for the presentation of amuse- ment features called from the catalogue of the most amazing and up-to-date. Yet with the cloak of laughter and mirth on them, many of these attractions contribute education Avith their amusement. Though the nature of these are at great variance, it is seen that the selection has been a cai-eful one, that the limit of wholesome enjoyment could be derived without a dis- gusting taint or immodest display. The decision to build the Exposition in the fourteen-hundred-acre Balboa Park owned by the city was a popular one, and in its building those considered the best landscape and building architects were en- gaged. These have carried to successful completion the beautification of the grounds, construction of the buildings and arrangement, which as a whole has been lauded as a fine example of engineering skill. It is the architecture of the build- ings which strikes the keynote of har- mony, for mission predominates in Cali- fornia. Back to the days of the good Franciscan fathers the architects went for their types, and faithfully have they por- trayed an architecture which has attained popularity in recent years. Throughout the different types it is seen that the Spanish Colonial predominates. Each building has a style representative of mas- terful effort. One resembles the Hacienda at Conde d'Heras, another gives many sug- gestions of the Sanctuario de Guadalupe at Guadalajara. In others are found points I'esembling the cathedral at Pueblo, Mexico, and in another are resemblances to the eighteenth century monastery at Queretaro, Mexico. The California State Building bears many resemblances to the beautiful cathedral at Oaxaea, Mexico. Throughout tiie grounds the building shows an artistic arrangement such as only could come from the hands of a master. It is such a project as Father Serra must have dreamed of years ago when he laid the foundation of Cali- fornia 's civilization. Crossing the Puente Cabrillo the visitor approaches a massive arch flanked on one side by a rich cathedral and on the other by a plain mission. Once inside this gate- way the visitor looks down El Prado, the main street of the Exposition, on one of the most beautiful views ever seen. Lining the Prado are scores of black acacia trees, beyond which stands the wonderful Spanish Colonial buildings of the Exposi- tion. Over the buildings clambers a riot The California State Building 14 I.OS AX(;KLKS-SAN nil-XiO STANDAFil) (iliDK (if vines, till" ricli green of Iho loaves giv- iiiu' wny here and there to bright flashes nf ('oh)r fi'om blossoms. Scxcral of the buildiuos are large, l)ut except for the great dome and tower of one. few are tall. Instead, they spread luxuriously along the j^lazas, on the mesa which looks down on the sea and the sti'aiid of Coronado, or back up the fertile \ alleys to the Sierras, with long, cool cloisters and arcades lining their facades. Instead of baking streets there are prados Ixirdered with acacias and lawns and thick beds of gladiolus or ]ioinsettias, and low shrubbery which droops through the arches of the arcades. Up the walls — up to the Spanish domes and towei's and belfries where pigeons nest and mission bells swing — clambers the gorgeous growth of rose, honeysuckle and boganvillea — the superb vine whose bloom does much to make a fairyland of Southern California. A portal invites one past the cloisters and beyond there lies a quiet patio — green with foliage, illuminated by the color of an occasional flowering shrub, murmuring with the soft sound of a fountain. This is a picture of the Panama-Cali- fornia International Exposition at San Diego — an Exposition set in a diadem of artistic simplicity — an Exposition which is giving to th(^ world a liberal education — an enterprise taking leading rank in the movement to ''See America First"— a jiroject which causes visitors to muse, "They can do it in America." PAT.ACF. I.TRERAI, ARTS, PAX \>[ ACALl FoRXI A I\ TKRX ATIOX A I. F.X P( )SITir)X 15 A Personal Invitation to the Visitor in Los Angeles vve nave anticipated your every require- ment and extend an invitation to inspect at your leisure our many aepartments NA/edding invitations announcements ana personal cards engraved in tne snortest possible time STATIONERY-ENGRAVING This department is prepared to design and execute many unique and original creations whether it be for general or personal use. ART GOODS We are showing the most attractive line of art ware in Los Angeles today among which will be found many beautiful leather articles and exclusive potteries. Los Angeles an unusual exclusive house devoting every etrort to tne creation and retailing or Tine stationery engraving and art goods CAMERAS AND PHOTO SUPPLIES Perpetuate your visit to Southern California by the aid of a camera. We carry a full stock of photo supplies and make enlarge- ments from all size prints. PICTURE FRAMING A framed picture from Little's with its har- monizing tones and perfect workmanship adds much to the original. Great care is given to the framing of even the least expensive prints. We are equipped to execute special designs to order. d^.&fiiie^e. |tafttr ontitai 426 South Broadway los angeles 16 LOS ANGELES HARBOR LOS ANGELES '^hat which she has not and wills not is not Year by yeai' tourists flock to Los Angeles in greater nnmbers, year by year her permanent population increases by leaps and bounds, both classes called hither by her incomparable climate, her delightful situation, between the mountains and the sea, her interesting surroundings, the facili- ties she affords for amusement and recre- ation and by her abundant evidences of material prosperity. In all these particu- lars Los Angeles is pre-eminent, but there is still more of which she has a right to be proud — doubly proud because they are among the things best worth while, and because it is through her own efforts that she has attained them ; her climate and situation she was born with. Her play- ground system is among the best in the United States; her public schools are ex- ceptionally fine; her people have been taught the skilful use of books, so that in circulation and reference use her public library ranks very high ; and in an age when church-going is notably falling off and in a country where all ont-doors is calling insistently every Sunday in the year, her largest churches are crowded to the doors at every service. These things mean that Los Angeles is far more than just a materially prosperous city, and that Avith all the allurements of Southern Cali- fornia at her doors, she takes time for the higher things of life. One morning in September, 1781, Gov- ernor Felipe de Neve, with a band of priests and Indian neophytes and eleven settlers with their families who were to become the pablodores of the new town, set out from San Gabriel Mission to estab lish the Pueblo Nuestra Senora, la ReinE de Los Angeles. Arriving at the spot selected, a cross was set up, the priestf and neophytes chanted, the banner of Oui Lady was unfurled by the side of the flag of Spain, and the site was named for Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels. Lots were laid out on three sides of a plaza (one side being reserved for a church and other public buildings), lands for cultiva- tion called suertes, were set apart, an irri- gation ditch from the river, then called ''Poi'ciuncula," was planned, and each soldier was given two oxen, two mules, two mares, two sheep, two goats, two cows, one calf, an ass and one hoe. With their families the settlers numbered fort,y-six, only two of pure Spanish blood, the rest Indian and mulatto. Their houses when built were rude adobe structures with flat roofs made of reeds covered with as- phaltum. Their fields were productive with little cultivation and what was lacking the fertile fields of San Gabriel Mission could supply, so for many years the settlers led a dolce far niente life. It was said of them and of the town, "The people are a set of idlers," "the town, founded twenty years ago, has made no advancement." "confident that the Gentiles (Indians) are working, they pass their days in singing," yet the little town grew. In 1800 the population was 315, in 1835 it was made a city by the Mexican Government and de- clared the capital, but the selection was not enforced. Bickerings among Mexica' 17 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE loaders followed for several years, but be- tween 1845 and 1847 it was the actual capital. When the Mexican war broke out the eity was torn by factional quarrels, but both Mexican factions united to oppose the American ti'oops under Commodore Stockton and General Fremont. Battles were fought in the vicinity with results favoring' the Americans, and in January, 1847, Generals Andres Pico and John C. Fremont signed articles of peace at Cahu- enga. Los Angeles then became an Ameri- can city, though in 1846 the American flag had been raised by Captain Gillespie. The population at that time was 1,250. The city received a charter in 1850. In 1860 the population was 4,300. Of these only five hundred were Americans. Los Angeles grew slowly for a time, but from 1876, when it became connected by the Southern Pacific railroad with San Francisco and the overland line, its growth was faster, and even more rapid after 1885 when con- nections were made Avith the East by the Santa Fe system. The period following culminated in a land boom when property rose to most extraordinary values and all of Southern California felt the stimulus. As usually happens after such inflation a reaction followed, but from that time the march has been steadily fonvard with re- markable increase in population since the new century set in. In 1900 it was some- thing over 100,000, of whom about one-fifth were foreign born. In 1910 it was 319,198. It is now (1914) estimated at 500,000. Climnte, soil and situation have contributed to this wonderful growth, these factors re- ferring to neighboring cities and towns as well as to Los Angeles, for all Southern California has had a remarkable develop- ment during the last dozen years. This development is not now merely an increase in population and property values, but in fine buildings and splendid roads, in a magnificent water system, in irrigation projects, and in more intelligent cultivation of the land. All these are solid improve- ments, adding to intrinsic values and, taken in connection with a sti'eet railway system exceptionally complete, an interurban electric railway system remarkable for ex- tent, an extensive park system, and homes surrounded bv beautiful grounds, they ex- plain the groat desirability of Los Angeles and vicinity for a sojourn of weeks or months, or for a permanent home. The question is not whether the new comer can find what he wants here; but, in a land where mountains, valleys, ocean beaches, city blocks and orange groves are within a few minutes car-ride from one another, the problem is rather, to choose. Nearly every desire of the most complex nature can find satisfaction and the ques- tion to puzzle over is which aim, which desire, shall be considered paramount. Does one prefer a high elevation, mountain ail', an extended view over cultivated valleys and homes buried in almost tropical verdure; Altadena, La Canada, Sierra Madre, Mount Washington and other hill- side slopes invite him. Does he desire to till these fertile acres and have a home in the midst of walnut, peach, orange or lemon groves, to dwell under his own vine and fig tree; again La Canada calls him, or the Verdugo Hills, San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys, Santa Ana, Orange and other localities reach out for him and display their gentle slopes or level plains. Does the sea call him; within an hour's ride nearly a score of beaches stretch along the coast with homes ranging from a two- room cottage to a mansion, each settlement with its own peculiar attraction and all with the comforts of civilization and within a short distance from the urban luxuriesi of Los Angeles, with frequent interurban electric car service. Does a city home, in- cluding the suburban advantages of ex- tended grounds, the scent of orange blos- soms, rose hedges and tree-bordered ave- nues appeal to him; Pasadena, Redlands, Riverside await his choice. Or if he is a city man whose contentment is not com- plete unless he is a part of the bustling throng which crowds a city's pavements, Los Angeles, the metropolis of the South- west, beckons with myriad advantages few of her sister cities can bring together. Not only the usual city advantages of business oppoi'tunities, fine schools, churches sup- plied with the best talent, libraries, clubs, theaters, museums, hospitals; but. coupled with these, inducements unusual for a city, of comfortable all-the-year homos, where summer nights ai'e always cool, the hottest days not really sultry and the coolest days not really cold ; where broad, well shaded avenues extend in every direction lined with homes whose architecture is adapted to the climate, each house possessing an individuality and standing in grounds where nature works every day in the year to produce the lawns, trees, shrubs and flowers which lend to them all the attrac- tions of suburban homes. Surely the man would be discontented in Paradise who could not satisfy himelf here. 18 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE ALLIGATOR FARM— Adjoining East- lake Park is this curious industry, afford- ing a novel and interesting exhibition. The "farm" is the home of from one to two thousand alligators ranging from tiny ones ibout the size of a small lizard to huge beasts twenty feet long and more than two hundred years old. Visitors are shown over the grounds by competent guides, and trained alligators are exhibited daily at four o'clock. They climb a steep incline and "shoot the chutes" into a small lake. They are haniessed to, and draw, a small cart and perform various tricks. They are raised for sale, but principally for the use of their skins, which are manufactured into bags, purses, belts, and many other articles exhibited in the salesroom. AMUSEMENTS— Time can never hang heavy on the hands of the visitor in Los Angeles, nor can the Angeleno himself ever want for amusement. The climate and en- virons contribute to his enjoyment while all the out-of-door sports, except those de- pendent upon snow and ice, flourish the year around. Baseball — Lovers of baseball can witness the great American game daily, exeej^t Mondays, in Baseball Park at Grand Ave- nue and Washington Street. The game be- gins at 2:45. There is also a baseball park at Venice. Bathing and Swimming — Numerous beaches within easy reach of the city o&ev themselves for both surf and still-water bathing and the mild climate permits them to be enjoyed throughout the year. At the Bimini Baths in the city is a splendid swimming tank of delightful mineral water, constantly renewed; and at Venice, Long Beach, Redondo Beach and Ocean Park are salt water swimming and plunge baths. Coaching — The mountain coach ride at Catalina Island in four-in-hand or six-in- liand coaches is an experience full of de- light for lovers of scenery. From a wind- ing, ever-climbing mountain road are ob- tained glorious views of sky and hillsides and the ever-changing sea. Fishing — Catalina Island is a paradise for fishermen, a world-famous fishing ground for sword-fish and the gamiest fighting fish in the world, the leaping tuna, which is also caught off Redondo Beach and Venice. The fish weigh from 80 to 250 pounds and the season is from May to October. Sword-fish weigh from 100 to 350 pounds and the season is from June to December. Several other smaller varieties of tuna are to be had, and several vaiieties of sea bass. Black sea bass weighing from 100 to 450 pounds are caught from April to December. The season for white sea bass, almost as gamey a fish as the tuna, is from March to November. Barracuda, whitefish, sheepshead and many others are to be had. All the beaches afford fine fish- ing gi'ounds, both from the wharves and from boats. Sole, halibut, yellowtail, mackerel, pompano, yellow-fins, corbina, bonita and many small fish are taken. Trout are found in the streams of moun- tain canyons near Los Angeles. G-olf and Tennis invite their followers at every country club, of which there are a number within a short distance of the city, the Los Angeles, the Pasadena, the Alta- dena, the San Gabriel Valley country clubs and the Annandale Golf Club. There are also fine links and a club-house on Catalina Island. Several of the large tourist hotels maintain private links. Hunting — Deer, bear, wildcats, mountain lions, rabbits, squirrel and quail are found in the mountains of Los Angeles County. Wild ducks abound on the salt marshes, and on Catalina Island mountain goats afford sport for the hunter. Motoring — Wonderfully smooth automo- bile I'oads extend for miles in every direc- tion, to the mountains, to the sea, through wild and picturesque scenery, through scented orange groves, through highly cultivated and fertile valleys. The charm of motoring in Southern California is something difficult to describe. Not only may every variety of scenery be enjoyed, but, from the latest developments of our complex life of today, one may slip back along the j^ears to the old missions, the interesting and, when not too painfully modernized, beautiful reminders lof eighteenth century days of the Spanish regime on this coast. Parks — Amusement parks at several of the beach resorts offer attractions for those who enjoy scenic railways, roller-coasters, "trips to Cloudland" and "shooting the chutes. ' ' Parks for rest and recreation, as well as play grounds for children, are in every quarter of the city. Westlake and Eastlake parks. Echo Park and Hollenbeck Park contain artificial lakes, furnished with row-boats, and the lakes are quite large enough for a pleasant boat ride. Near Eastlake Park is a zoo, an aviary and an aquarium. 19 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE '"Trcf- AN ALL-THE- YEAR-ROUND SPORT IN LOS ANGELES WATERS The yachtsman has within his reach the wonders of Alaska and the mysterious islands of the southern seas Polo — Southern California is a rendez- vous for polo players, and match games and tournaments are played evei'y fall and winter on the grounds of the Pasadena and Riverside Polo clubs, also at the Coronado Country Club. Theaters — Los Angeles is well supplied with theaters, though perhaps the theater should no longer be regarded as a place of amusement, but there can be no doubt about vaudeville entertainments, of Avhich the Orphcum, Pantages and the Empress are the principal ones. There are over a hundred moving pictui'e shows in the city. For further information see general article ''Theaters." Yachting — Yachting and motor-boating both have their devotees. Los Angeles harbor is perhaps the favorite. The club- house of the South Coast Yacht Club is on Terminal Island. The opening of the Panama Canal will undoubtedly bring many large eastern yachts to the harbors near Los Angeles. Instead of laying them up for the winter where they must be closely covered, and where care must be taken to keep them free fi'om ice, their owners find this coast is a desirable yacht- ing ground in Avinter as Avell as summer. Pacific Avaters, AA'ith their Mediterranean blue depths and clearness, are themselves a delight. All up and doAvn the coast the scenery is varied and fascinating Avhile, Avith this coast as a base, the yachtsman has Avithin his reach the Avonders of Alaska and the mysterious islands of the Southern Seas. There are also the trips and excursions! A new one may be taken every day for Aveeks before the Adsitor has tried them all and become acquainted Avith the diversi- fied attractions of the surroundings of Los Angeles. With this beautiful neighbor- ing country, including both mountains and sea, and with all the above sports to be enjoyed, not only for a few Aveeks or months, but for the Avhole year through, Los Angeles may rightly claim to be a Mecca for the health-seeker, the pleasure- seeker, and for those in need of new in- terests and recreations. ANGELENO HEIGHTS — The high ground just beyond Echo Park, in the northwestern part of the city. 20 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIECO STANDARD GUIDE ANGELS' FLIGHT— A stcop incline, between liill and Olive streets, at Third. The ascent is so steep that the ear is built like a stairway, to prevent the pas- sengers from falling- in a huddle at the K)\ver end. The ear is drawn by a cable Avhich lowers one ear as the other rises. From the pavilion at the summit there is an extensive view over tlie city and, if it is very clear, Catalina Island may be seen iu the distance. ANIMAL FARM— Near Eastlake Park is an enclosure containing an interesting zoological collection, all the wild animals usually' found in such places. AQUARIA — An interesting aquarium is maintained near Eastlake Park. There is also one at Venice and one at Avalon. All contain rare specimens of marine life and are educational as well as curious. AQUEDUCT— The Owens River Aque- duct is one of the greatest engineering feats of modern times and one of the largest entei-prises ever undertaken by an American city. It is built to supply Los Angeles with water from the Owens River which itself is fed from the everlasting snows of Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the United States outside of Alaska. The aqueduct is nearly 250 mih-s long, the second longest in the world, and Ikis more than forty miles of tunnels. It is wholly built of steel and concrete. One tunnel, the Great Elizabeth, is five miles long, bored through solid rock. Before the water was turned in, electric trains passed back and forth through it, carry- ing supplies. The aqueduct is designed to deliver daily into the San Fernando reser- voir a minimum of 258,000,000 gallons, but 500,000,000 gallons can pass through it in twenty-four hours. Not only will enough water be available for Los Angeles with a population of two millions, but there will be enough surplus to irrigate all the tillable land in the adjoining country. A large amount of electric power will also be generated, whicli will be available for TROUT FISIIIXG IX STREAMS OF MOUNTAIN CANYONS NEAR LOS ANC.ELES A tonic for the tired brain 21 And Behold! A new Li^tit, beaming a Welcome far out to sea, and over the City of Destiny fulfilled — the Great Metropolis of the Great West — Los Angeles the Incomparaole 22 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE lighting and manufacturing purposes. The system is wholly by gravity. The total cost of the work will be about $25,000,000. It was necessary to spend about $4,000,000 in preliminary work before the actual work on the aqueduct could begin. More than 200 miles of mountain roads and trails were built, some cut out of solid rock; 150 miles of pipe line to carry water to employees; a telephone system 250 miles long was constructed ; 140 miles of broad-gauge railroad was built across the Mojave Desert; three hydro-electric power plants were built to furnish power and light for camps and tunnels, and a cement mill which could furnish 1,250 barrels of cement daily. About 1,250,000 barrels of cement Avei'e used in lining the aqueduct. Four thousand men were employed. The work was carried on simultaneously at forty-five different points. AREA OF LOS ANGELES, 288.21 square miles — This gives plenty of room for the population to expand without crowding and is one reason for the ex- ceptional beauty of the residence sections. ARMORY— The State Armory is a hand- some building in Exposition Park which is on Vermont and Santa Barbara avenues. ARROYO SECO (Dry Creek)— The channel and upper valley of a "dry river" extending from the Forest Reserve five or six miles north of Pasadena, through Pasadena and South Pasadena, to a junc- tion with the Los Angeles River near Elysian Park. The present channel, vary- ing from fifty to several hundred feet in width, has cut itself fi'om the wider valley which was once the bed of the stream. The channel is dry most of the year, but occasionally water comes to the surface and sometimes it is flooded. The Arroyo is picturesque throughout its length and a short distance north of Pasadena be- comes a narrow rocky gorge of rugged grandeur called the Devil's Gate. It is proposed to convert the borders of the Arroyo Seco into a parkway, connecting the Forest Reserve with Elysian Park, in- cluding Sycamore Grove on its way. This parkway will be about ten and one-half miles in length and will form a part of a proposed boulevard from the mountains to the sea, connecting through Elysian Park with the proposed Silver Lake parkway, both north to Griffith Park and southwest to Santa Monica Boulevard. ART COMMISSION— Los Angeles was the second city in the United States to create a Municipal Art Commission, New York being the first. There are now fif- teen. In the beginning it was merely an advisory board created by the city coun- cil, but by a later charter it was em- powered to reject plans of public build- ings, monuments or statuary not conform- ing to the standards of the commission. The mayor, city engineer, and inspector of buildings are ex-offieio members. There are six others, chosen irrespective of sex. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES— The office of the Associated Chanties of Los Angeles is at 232 North Main Street, opposite the Post Office Building. The Industrial De- partment and Free Labor Bureau are at 912 Date Street. The council of the Associated Charities consists of persons appointed or elected by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, by the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, by the Chai'ity Conference Committee, from the annual members of the Associated Chari- ties, together with ex-officio members, the mayor, chief of police, city and county physicians, chairman of the board of super- visors and president of the city council. AUDITORIUMS— Los Angeles has two large auditoriums and is thus able to take care of conventions of the largest size. The Shrine Auditorium holds ten thou- sand. On Fifth Street, between Hill and Olive streets, is the Temple Auditorium Building. The Auditorium, with its four galleries, seats four thousand people. It is occupied on Sunday by the Temple Baptist Church. During the week the room is available for lectures, theaters and other large gatherings. There are besides in the building two large concert rooms, a banquet- room seating one thou- sand, and many offices. The Auditorium contains one of the largest and finest organs in the West, with chimes attach- ment. AUTOMOBILES — Los Angeles very nearly heads the list of American cities in number of automobiles in proportion to population. And this is no wonder when one considers the boulevards, smooth as a floor, which traverse the city and lead out from it in every direction, to- gether with the entrancing and varied scenes which make of each route a pano- rama of beautiful pictures. The legal rate for public automobiles or taxicabs, subject to change by later ordi- 23 BANK CLEARINGS Our growth 1910 $811,377,487 'Oil 943,963,357 1912 1,168,941,700 1913 1,211,167,980 24 LOS ANHELES-SAN DTEr.O STAXDAIM) CHIDE nances, is as follows: For seven persons, including- chauffeur, $5 per hour for each hour "where period does not exceed five consecutive hours, and $4 per hour after first five hours. For automobile for live persons, includ- ing chauffeur, $4 per hour for each hour where the time does not exceed five hours, and $3.50 per hour after first five hours. For automobile built for two, including chauffeur, $3 per hour for five hours and $2 for each additional hour. AVIATION FIELDS— Doniinguez Avia- tion Field is near Wilmington. Here there is a large grandstand from which thou- sands have viewed the world's greatest aviators in record flights. firiffith Park Aviation Field lies on the north side of Griffith Park. BANKS — There are in Los Angeles thirtv-two banks with a capitalization and surplus of over $27,000,000. The bank clearances for 1914 were $1,145,167,110.19. Deposits were $164,131,669.30. They are in a solid and prosperous condition, most of them in handsome buildings and a large number are elegant and luxurious in rooms and appointments. Among the most strik- ing are the Hellman banks, the Security Trust and Savings Bank, The Gei-man American, the First National, and the Los Angeles Trust and Savings. A feature of one of the Hellman banks (the Home In- stitution, at Sixth and Main streets) which is of great benefit to tourists is its night service, enabling them to draw or deposit money at unusual hours. The in- teriors of the Security Trust and Savings and of the First National banks are un- usually beautiful. The latter has a charm- ing ladies' room and lady tellers for the accommodation of its women patrons. Sev- eral of the banks maintain Infoi-mation Bureaus (which see). The Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank at Sixth and Spring streets has an excellent map, copies of which may be had free on request. The strength of the Los Angeles banks is shown by their success in weathering the financial storms of the past twenty years and by the rapid increase of their bank cleai-ings. BEACHES — Although, strictly speaking, none of the beaches belongs to Los Angeles (San Pedro being a harbor rather than a beach), yet they are so closely connected with Los Angeles that they form an inte- gral part of the city's life. Tlieie are :i .-^rore or more lo be icaclicd by an electric car-ride of an hour or two, each wiLh attractions peculiar to itself, each sending commuters to the city, each drawing people from it for rest or pleasure. The seeker for quiet and repose can find what he needs; the one looking for gaiety can also be suited. A two-mik' boulevard along the shores of the blue Pacific connects all ol' the principal beaches which come in quick succession Venice, Santa Monica, Ocean Park, etc. At Venice and Ocean Park one may enjoy the pleasure of a dip in the Pa- cific any day in the year, while for those that prefer water of a little warmer tem- perature excellent bath houses are pro- vided with special swimming pools. Sonae of the most famous cafes of Southern California are situated at these beaches, chief among which are the ''Shii), " Nat Goodwin's and Sunset. Most of these beaches, with their main characteristics, are described under Special Pleasure Trips. BIBLE INSTITUTE— It will pay any one interested in the study of the Bible, the spread of the Gospel and the uplifting of his fellow-men, to look into the methods and results of this organization. The ob- ject of this school is the training of Christian men and women for the World Field ; but, as adjuncts to its elass-work. the Institute maintains extension class work; evening classes; a con-espondence school; Bible women's work, employing eleven experienced and consecrated women in the outlying districts of the city; the Jewish work of giving the Gospel to the people of Israel, having access to hundreds of homes ; the Spanish Mission, woi'king among the thousands of Mexicans in the city an.d vicinity and open day and night; Shop Meetings in railway shops and other industrial plants; the Oil-Field Mission, consisting of two men with wagon and outfit traversing- this needy field and giv- ing to hundreds of men the only Gospel privileges they can have; a mission for men in the heart of the down-town district ; a sailors' mission and a printing establish- ment and a book-room. The handsome new reinforced concrete building of the Institute on Hope Street, between Fifth and Sixth streets, cost three- quarters of a million and is an important addition to the architectural features of the city. 25 :&^£s<^i^&Ii^:2^MlL CITY AND COUNTY ROADS Four luindred miles of perfect roads lure the motorist to a ceaseless charm which lurks throughout the orange, the olive, and the eucalyptus groves, over awe-inspiring mountain ranges, into deep canyons, and along the seashore of Los Angeles County. 26 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE NATATORIUM AND SANITARIUM, BIMINI HOT SPRINGS The scene of water sports every Friday evening. Here are the finest swimming tanks in Southern California BIMINI HOT SPRINGS— This famous health and pleasure resort is located on Vermont Avenue, between First and Third streets, Los Angeles. The water of these springs, whose curative powers have be- come famous, was discovered when boi'ing for oil in the year 1900, and there is an inexhaustible supply. It was found be- neath a hard crust of soda three feet in thickness at a depth of 1,750 feet. The natural flow is one hundred gallons per minute at 104 degTees Farenheit. An expert in mineral waters, after scientific tests, purchased this spring and adjoining acreage. It is a thermal alkaline- saline water which carries, in the order named, sodium, carbonate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, silica, calcium carbon- ate, magnesium carbonate, iron and alumi- num. It is also impregnated with petro- leum gas and other highly medicinal prop- erties which are derived from crude petro- leum. It is claimed to be far superior to the common sulphur waters in the treat- ment of all uric acid conditions, intestinal indigestion, catai'rhal conditions of the alimentary and urinary tracts, obesity, and kidney and liver affections. In the short space of ten years this health resort has become one of the promi- nent attractions in bringing thousands of health-seekers to Los Angeles. During the year 1913 over 250,000 baths were given. The buildings at present consist of the natatorium, containing three large swim- ming-pools, five hundred dressing-i-ooms. fifty private tub-baths and seventy rooms equipped for the treatment department. Adjoining the bath-house proper is the Bimini Hotel, where out-of-town patients may enjoy all the comforts of a modern home. In such a superb location, wdth five lines of the Los Angeles railway cen- tering there and only twenty minutes from the business center of the city, Bimini Hot Springs gives promise of becoming the Cai'lsbad of America. BOULEVARDS AND AUTOMOBILE ROADS— Smooth, dustless boulevards tra- versing the city and extending from it in every direction, make of niotonng a never- tiring pleasure. In the city itself Wilshire Boulevard, lined with beautiful homes (and crossed by streets almost equally beautiful), the Westlake and West Adams districts offer drives of unsurpassed urban attractions. A tour of Westlake, Sunset, Echo, Elysian, Eastlake and Hollenbeck pai'ks gives a variety of beautiful park scenery, including splendid trees, tropical shrubbery, wondrous flowers and shining lakes. To Santa Monica, Venice and 27 28 LOS ANUELES-SAN UlEGO STANDARD ClUiDE Ocean Park one may go and return by different routes, the longer, scenic route passing through the Third Street tunnel to Sunset Boulevard, thence through Holly- wood on Hollywood Boulevard, through Sherman, Beverly Hills and the Soldiers' Home near Sawtelle, to Santa Monica and, on Ocean Boulevard, parallel to the ocean,' to Ocean Park and Venice. One may also take the shorter route, west on Washington Street to Venice. The drive to Long Beach is by way of Slauson Avenue and Long Beach Boule- vard, something over twenty miles. From Long Beach, Ocean Front Boulevard ex- tends five miles along the bluffs over the surf. The Beach Drive extends for ten miles along the strand close to the shore. Another road leads to Redondo Beach via Inglewood, thence to San Pedro or Long Beach via Wilmington. North Broadway, Pasadena Avenue and Huntington Drive lead into Pasadena, the city of roses, orange groves and beautiful homes. Altadena, just beyond, shows homes scarcely less charming, with a wider outlook and beautiful mountain pictures. Turning to the right at Alhambra, on the way to Pasadena, one passes San Gabriel, the old San Gabriel Mission, and the home of the Mission Play. A drive north from Hollywood, through the Ca- hueuga Pass, leads into the beautiful San Fernando Valley and along a wonderful boulevard 170 feet wide, and fifteen miles long, level as a floor, bordered by flowers and shrubbery and lighted all the way by graceful electroliers. Lankershim, Van Nuys, Owensmouth, the great dam of the neW aqueduct, and the old San Fernando Mission may be reached by way of this boulevard. The road winding through the hills and valleys of La Canada affords a series of beautiful pictures, both near at hand and those embracing a distant outlook. Or- chards and gTOves alternating with wilder natui'al scenery stretch out to the moun- tains which encompass them. Beautiful homes are being built among the hills. La Canada is reached by the County Good Roads Boulevard. The Griffith Park Drive, going north on Vermont Avenue to Los Feliz and by Los Feliz to the river entrance to the park, offers, in connection with the park itself, much beautiful scenery. The drive of ten miles in the park is bordered with ferns and wild flowers and shrubbery, with beautiful live-oaks on every side, through which now and then charming glimpses may be had of the San Fernando Valley and the distant mountains. Vines dra{)e the trees which ai'ch over the road, and in places the sun is almost excluded. Another beautiful scenic trip is to Look- out Mountain, fifteen miles from Los Angeles. The way is north through the Third Street tunnel to Sunset Boulevard, through Hollywood to Laurel Canyon, up the canyon for half-a-mile and then a winding, zigzag road to the top of the mountain. From here spreads out a wondrous view, embracing Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. A drive of 160 miles includes Riverside, Redlands, San Bernardino, Arrowhead Hot Springs and back along the Fort Hill Boulevard, passing through Cucamonga, Claremont, Glendora, Azusa, Duarte, Ar- cadia and by way of Huntington Drive into Los Angeles. The automobile trip to San Diego and Coronado may be made by either of two routes, the Valley or the Coast road. The latter is somewhat shorter. The road leads first to Santa Ana and thence through Tus- tin and Irvine to San Juan Capistrano. Here is one of the most beautiful of Cali- fornia's old missions, both originally and in its half-ruined state. From here the road leads to San Luis Rey, another fine example of mission architecture, thence to Oceanside and along the shore to Del Mar and San Diego, twenty-eight miles beyond. Coronado is close by and reached by fen-y. From either Coronado or San Diego many delightful motor trips can be taken. (See San Diego.) A trip to Santa Barbara, 112 miles north, is another possibility, going by way of Sunset Boulevard, through Hollywood ana the Cahuenga Pass into the San Fernando Valley. After leaving the level valley there are two stil¥ grades before reaching Santa Barbara, but both are entirely practicable, and signs of the Southern California Auto- mobile Club point the way along the route. Around Santa Barbara there are innumer- able beautiful drives, the Mountain Drive being an especially notable one. Work is begun on a new county road from the mouth of Topanga Canyon, on the Santa Monica and Malibu Coast road, through the canyon to the summit. With the completion of this road, the proposed extension, and improvement of the coast road, a belt line boulevard matchless for beauty and variety of scenery will be opened to the automoMlists of Southern 29 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE ralifornia. Starting from the city the route will be through suburban Los Angeles to Santa Monica, seventeen miles, then seven miles of beach drive close to the shore, the glorious Pacific on one side and the rugged Santa Monica mountains on the other. From the month of Topanga Canyon to Owensmouth is fifteen or twenty miles, aceoi'ding to the route finally decided upon. The scenery is ruggedly grand most of the way. At the summit a splendid vista is spread out in all directions. Beyond there are wooded stretches where the road follows a brook and win'^s among giant trees. From Owensmouth to Hollywood, through Van Nuys is about twenty miles, and from Hollywood to Los Angeles, eight. The whole round trip Avill be about sixty- cia'ht miles. BOYLE HEIGHTS— Tliat part of the city on a mesa, or table-land, on the east side of the Los Angeles River and lying south of East Los Angeles. HoUenbeck Park is on Rovle Heights. CAFES— See Restaurants. CAHUENGA PASS AND VALLEY— Running northwest from Los Angeles, sheltered from the north wind by the Santa Monica mountains, is the beautiful (^ahuenga Valley, practically a frostless l)elt, of Avhich Hollywood, "the enchanted city" is the crowning feature. Cahuenga Pass leads from the valley through the Santa Monica range into the San Fernan- do Valley. This is historic ground. Through this pass Father Serra and the .'•rood padres who followed him must have worn a pathway, so many times they trod the way between the missions, for the Franciscans always walked. After the ex- ))lorers and the founders came settlers from Mexico, taking the way of the pass into the San Fernando Valley. Later the hills above the pass was the meeting ground between the contending Californi- ans and Americans, and two white pillars noAv mark the spot where the peace com- pact was signed by the commandants, Fremont and Andres Pico. Many years after this the United States Government experimented in the use of camels as l)easts of burden in what seemed a desert country, and curious. Oriental-looking cai'avans marching throiigh the pass made the chance observer rah his eyes and wonder if he had been transported to tlie Ultimate East. A fine automobile boule- vard now follows this section of the old Camino Real into the valley. CENTRAL SQUARE— Next to the oldest park in the city, the square bounded by Fifth and Sixth streets. Hill and Olive. It is a delightful oasis in the busiest part of the city's life — a block of lawn and beautiful trees, with a cool fountain splashing in the center. Benches "line the walks and they are usually well filled. There is an impressive Soldier's Monument and a Spanish cannon on the northeastern corner. On its eastern border are convenience stations. Three of the principal clinrches of the city, St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, the First Methodist and Temple Baptist, face the square, also the California Club Building. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE— The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1888. Its objects are "to foster and encourage commerce; to stimu- late home manufactui-es; to assist in securing a market for our products ; to induce immigration, and the sub-division, settlement and cultivation of our lands; to assist in the development of the material resources of the region; and generally to promote the business in- terests of Southern California." It does all this by means of a permanent exhibit of the agricultural and mineral products of the State, by exhibits in other cities and at Expositions, by daily lectures illustrated by beautiful colored lantern slides and by the dissemination of printed matter relating to the products, resources and possibilities of Southern California. The Chamber of Commerce Building is a seven-story edifice at 122-134 S. Broad- way. The second and third floors, attic and basement are occupied by the Cham- ber for its various activities. Shops and offices occupy the rest of the building and furnish an income which is paying the principal and interest of the bonds issued for its erection. The exhibit maintained by the Chamber is a very fine one, ranging chronologically fi'om pre-historic Indian relics down to the latest productions of agricultural and horticultural skill. There is a collection of the minerals found in the State; there is an exhibit of crude oils and distillates representing the petroleum wealth of the State; there are interesting and instructive relief maps of the surrounding country, and literature relating to the cities and counties of the State which is freely dis- tributed by people who are ready tc answer any questions pertaining to tht 30 LOS ANCELES-SAN DTEHO STANDARD flUTDE exhibits or to the State's resources; and there are tempting disphiys of fruits and vegetables in bewildei'ing variety, both in their natural form and preserved in tall glass jars. The variety of fruit is aston- ishing, and all are to be found in the markets of Los Angeles. On the third floor is the lecture room, where, from 9 :30 a. m. to late afternoon (with a noon intermission) one may listen to half-hour talks on different sections of the State, given by experts and illustrated by lantern slides v?hich portray the won- ders and beauty of California scenery, systems of irrigation, crops in great variety, fields of flowers, and citrus groves of Southern California. Each locality described has its desirable features and peculiar attractions and he is a peculiar person who cannot find in some corner of California a spot which suits him. Perhaps the most interesting section of the Chamber of Commerce, both to the traveler and to the dweller in Los Angeles, is the room devoted to the Coronel collec- tion. This being practically a museum, is described under the heading MUSEUMS. The collection was given by Mrs. Coronel to the Chamber of Commerce with the' proviso that it should remain intact, and not be merged into other collections. CHAMBER OF MINES AND OILS— Room 300, Germain Building, 224 South Spring Street. A small mining and scien- tific library is here, open to the public for reference. There is also an exhibit. CHINATOWN— North of the old plaza, at North Los Angeles and Marchessault streets, is Chinatown, a fantastic bit of the Orient which furnishes the tourist with many interesting sights, both during the day and evening. For the stranger a guide is desirable, particularly in the evening. Unless one is going merely for shopping, a guide will add much to the pleasure of the visit, since he will have access to places not open to evei*yone, and will explain curious customs of the Chinese. The Chinese shops are filled with attractive and beautiful articles and the quaint dresses of the women and children are a never-ending source of interest. For any festal occasion the costumes of men and women are beautiful in quality and color and the effect is highly decorative. CHURCHES- -Los Angeles, if unable to wrest fruni Brooklyn its title of the City of Churches, may truthfully be called a city of church-goers. Surrounded, as the city is, by every out-door attraction call- ing the people every month of the year, it is reMi;irkal)le that almost universally throughout the city the congregations siiould be so large, in several churches at both services, crowding the audience room to the utmost limit of standing room. Facing Central Square in the business district of the city are three churches, a Baptist, a Methodist and an Episcopalian, with auditoriums seating respectively three thousand, about twenty-five hundred and eighteen hundred. Go into any one of them at a Sunday service, morning or evening, and you will see few or no vacan- cies; if you are a little late the chances are that you will get no seat at all. What has been said of the congi-egations of the churches on Central Square applies almost equally well to the churches throughout the citj'. Los Angeles possesses the further dis- tinction, unusual in a non-prohibition town, of having more churches than saloons. The following are some of the leading churches, with their addresses: St. Vibiana, the Cathedral of the Roman Catholic diocese. Main Street, near Second. Our Lady of the Angels (R. C), the old Mission church, North Main Street at the Plaza. Spanish sermon at 9 o'clock mass. The Synagogue of the Congregation B'nai B'rith is on the comer of Ninth and Hope streets. Temple Baptist Church hold services in the Temple Auditorium at Fifth and Olive streets. First Methodist, Sixth and Hill streets. Trinity Methodist (South), 847 S. Grand Avenue, a big institutional church. St. John's Church (Episcopal), West Adams and Figueroa streets. St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral (Episcopal), 523 South Olive Street. Christ Church (Episcopal), southwest corner of Flower and Twelfth streets. Immanuel Presbyterian, Tenth and Fig- ueroa streets. First Congregational, 837 South Hope Street. Bethlehem Congregational, an institu- tional church which works among foreign- ers of all nations. 31 LOS ANGELES The city of homes 32 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE Magnolia Avenue Christian Church, Twenty-fifth Street and Mag-nolia Avenue. First Unitarian, 925 Soutli Flower Street. Seventh Day Adventists, 123 South Dit- man Street. The Second Church of Christ, Scientist, has a strikin,nger snow-crowned San Bernardino range. Each range lias its lofty peaks, San Antonio, disrespectfully known as "Old Baldy," is the highest peak of the Sierra Madre range. Two other well-known peaks of this range are Mount Wilson and Mount Lowe. These are desei'ibed under Special Pleasure Trips. San Oorgonio is a noted peak of the San Bernardino range. MUSEUMS — Los Angeles has three mu- seums of great interest and educational xnlue: the Coronel Collection in the build- ing on Museum Hill at Marmion Way, the Museum of History, Science and Ai't in the Los Angeles County Historical and Art IVIuseum Building in Exposition Park, and the Southwest Museum formei'ly in the Hamburger Building but now at Marmion Wav and Avenue Forty-six. Coronel Collection — It was a happy cir- cumstance which preserved for Los Angeles this collection, a part of which is so inti- mately connected with her early history. Don Antonio Franco Coronel came to Los Angeles in 1834. He was a methodical man, educated and possessing a sense of historic values. He made collections of Toltec, Aztec and later Mexican pottery; of Mexican and Indian handicraft; mis- sion relics; articles of dress worn by Spanish and Mexican men and women of the early days in California, such as re- bosas, serapes, sombreros, slippers and high, carved tortoise-shell combs; house- hold furnishings, and many objects illus- trative of early times. He had a series of paintings made of himself and his young and beautiful Avife, in Mexican cos- tumes and enacting the scenes of Mexican life which were fast being buried under the rapidly gi-owing American life of the City of the Angels. He collected, or had made, groups of tiny wax figures depicting the various household and out-of-door activities of the days of the Spanish and Mexican regimes. He and his wife made a model of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia as it was in the days of its glory. That, too, is in the collection, as well as painted portraits, daguerreotypes, photo- graphs, and autograph letters of great interest. After Don Antonio's death his wife, fol- lowing his wishes, gave the collection to the Chamber of Commerce, which has since maintained it. It is now being housed at Exposition Park and should be seen when visiting this interesting museum. Museum of History, Science and Art — This museum, in the Museum Building in Exposition Park, consists of various collec- tions which have been, or are to be, brought together under one roof, the valu- able collections of the Historical Society, of the Academy of Sciences, of the Cooper Ornithological Society and of the Art League of Los Angeles, besides a number of private collections. The natural history collections are in the wing at the left of the central rotunda of the Museum Building. Here are birds, their nests, and eggs, butterflies, shells, etc. In the opposite wing is the historical collection. Many of the articles have been loaned by the Native Sons of the Golden West. Here are Spanish, Mexican and In- dian historical relics, portraits, autographs, letters from eminent men, pictures of Los Angeles in 1854 and in 1809 and a plan of the roads from mission to mission, from San Rafael south to San Antonio. Here ai-e china, glassware, and other household furnishings used in the early Spanish homes of Los Angeles; high tortoise-shell combs and high-heeled satin slippers which adorn sonoras and senoritas of early days, and many other interesting articles with their histories attached. The Southwest Museum — This museum was founded by the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and incorporated in December, 1907 "to build and maintain in Los Angeles a free public Museum of History, Science and Ai't, for the gi'eat Southwest, on a scale commensur- ate with the community it serves." A magnificent site Avas secured on a hill (now called Museum Hill) at the head of Ave- nue Forty-six, overlooking Sycamore Gi'ove. Plans have been prepared for a splendid group of buildings, perfectly adapted to the site and to their purpose. A be- quest of $50,000 by the late Mrs. Carrie M. Jones made possible the first build- ing, to be called the Carrie M. Jones Memorial Hall. On November 16, 1912, ground was broken for this building by Bishop Thomas J. Conaty. Above him waved the flag that Fremont flung to the breeze on the crest of the Rocky mountains in 1846. The daughter of General Fremont lowered the flag when the ceremonies were over. This building was completed for occupancy in 1914 and to it were re- moved the collections and library which POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS Uncle Sam's verdict in the case of Los Angeles vs. the world Our growth— 1909, $1,276,664.07; 1910, $1,476,941.52; 1911, $1,646,601.84 1912, $1,906,518.68; 1913, $2,114,049.93 56 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE through the generosity of Mr. M. A. Ham- hurs'or, occupied rooms in the Ilambui'gcr Building. The collections include Indian relics and specimens of their varied handi- crafts; mission relics, many connected with Father Serra; Fremont relics; folk-song preserved by phonogi-aph; the Caballeria collection of old paintings; the IngersoU collection of steel engravings from photo- graphs of the most important Spanish and American women who figured in the early development of the State; fossil remains and petrifactions; historical documents; and the two g-reat gifts to the Museum of the Munk Library of Arizoniana and the Lummis Library and collections. The two libraries have been described under Libraries. The remainder of the Lummis gift includes paintings by noted artists, and valuable historical and anthropological collections from Equador, Peru and Bolivia. The museum is most fortunate in its distinguished curator, Mr. Hector Alliot. MUSICAL LOS ANGELES— Los Ange- les is justly noted as a musical center. It is a rare day in Los Angeles when there is not a concert of more or less im- portance. Four of the high schools have orchestras and in the grade schools there are over 400 pupils playing in school orchestras. There are a number of adult orchestras of which the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra is noteworthy. Los Angeles has twenty bands and as many singing clubs and chorus societies. There are about 500 music teachers and over 800 professional musicians. Popular priced grand opera runs for eight weeks each year in Los Angeles. Comic opera for twenty-four weeks, and the Chicago Grand Opera Com- pany give here from eight to sixteen per- formances each season. Blanehard Hall Studio Building at 235 Broadway is de- voted exclusively to music, art and science and is one of the best equipped buildings for the encouragement of music and art in the United States. It contains four halls, Blanehard Hall with a seating capacity of 1,000, Symphony Hall with a capacity of 450, Art"^ Hall, holding 250 and Music Hall, holding 150. There are a number of other spacious concert halls in the city and sev- eral large auditoriums. NEWSPAPERS— See Periodicals. OIL WELLS— The petroleum and as- phaltum supply of Southern California is enormously abundant. California produces, not only more oil than any other State in the Union, but half as much again ad Oklahoma, the second greatest producer. Omitting the rest of the United States, California produced in 1911 more oil than any other country, and if Russia and the rest of the United States are omitted, more than all the other oil-producing countries (■(.riibined. During 1914 uiore than 102,000- 000 barrels was the yield. All the oil wells are in the southern part of the State. Petroleum and asphaltum were discovered here by the first Spanish settlers. They made no use of the former but asphaltum was frequently used, after melting, as roofing for their adobe houses. Not much attempt was made at oil development until after the close of the Civil Wai', but An- dres Pico, in the early fifties, refined a small amount in the San Fernando Valley. In 1892 E. L. Doheny drilled his first well in the city of Los Angeles. Within four years there were 700. There are now three times that number. In the north- western part of the city beautiful lawns and gardens have been dotted thickly by oil derricks, averaging sixty-five feet in height. The wells were such good pro- ducers that it was a great temptation to multiply them until that portion of the city resembles a curious sort of forest composed of cubist trees. It is no longer jiermitted to sink new wells within the city limits, but those which are still pro- ducing may be operated. A pipe line from the Kern County petroleum fields delivers oil to loading stations on the breakwater of Los Angeles harbor. It is this cheap fuel which has stimu- lated manufacturing in Southern Cali- fornia and having proved its worth it is now largely used by Western railroads, by the United States Navy, and for smelt- ing purposes. OLD MISSION CHURCH— See Church of Our Lady of the Angels. OSTRICH FARMS— Two ostrich farms in the vicinity of Los Angeles are found exceedingly interesting to tourists and are visited by many thousands annually. The Cawston Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena may be seen on the automobile trip to Pasadena or on the Pacific Electric Old Mission Trolley Trip. It is also an easy matter to go there by street car. Ad- mission is twenty-five cents. The history of this pioneer enterprise from the first importation of fifty-two birds from Natal, Africa, in 1886 to the "farm" in its present state is most interesting. A ship was chartered and especially fitted to bring 57 58 LOS ANCELKS-SAN UIECO STANDARD GUIDE over this first lot. VAght died en route. Most of tlie present American ostrich population is descended from the forty- four which were safely landed at Galves- ton, Texas. The Natal Government has since imposed an almost prohibitive duty upon all ostriches taken from the land, but Mr. Cawston has since imported a few wild birds from the Nubian desert. At this farm the mated birds build their nests, lay their eggs and hatch their young. "incubators are also employed. The young birds are reared elsewhere. The process of removing the feathers from the birds and much other interesting in- formation is imparted to visitors by guides and attendants. The egg of the ostrich weighs three pounds. When hatched the birds are about the size of frving chickens. At full size they weigh three hundred pounds and stand eight feet high. They live to about seventy years of age. They are the fastest runners among living things, twenty-five miles an hour being their usual rate. Their sight is very keen. Besides the ostriches there are many other things of interest here, an aviary of rare birds, the show-rooms where are dis- played beautiful plumes of every form and color, and a Japanese tea-house in the garden where refreshing afternoon tea is served. The Los Angeles Ostrich Farm is at 3609 I\Iission Road, and may be seen on the "Seeing Los Angeles" trip of the Pacific Electric, or by an ordinary street car-ride. Admission twenty-five cents for the ordi- nary tourist, but the price of the ''Seeing Los* Angeles" trip includes admission to the farm. PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILROAD— The interurban electric railroads radiating in every direction from Los Angeles all be- long" to the Pacific Electric system. Taken together Avith the system within the city, they constitute one of the most complete and" best equipped electric railway systems in the United States. The interurban roads aggregate 900 miles of single track. Almost all are double track and some have four tracks. There are lines to Santa Monica, Redondo Beach and San Pedro Harbor by two different routes, to all the other beaches, to Pasadena by two routes, to Altadena, Alhambra and San Gabriel, Monrovia, Whittier, Azusa, Glendora, Sierra Madre, Covina, La Habra, Glendale, Burbank, Lankershim, Van Nuys, Fernan- do, Owensmouth, Santa Ana and Pomona. For all these lines over 6,000 trains are operated daily. The Pacific Electric main- tains a club-house for the use of its men, with pool and billiard tables, hot and cold baths and other provision for their com- fort and pleasure. The number of men thus emjiloyod in and about the city is 8,000. The main Pacific Electric station is in a large building owned by the company on the corner of Sixth and Main streets. From this building interurban trains are leaving on two levels in constant succes- sion. On the main floor are waiting rooms, dining rooms, and lunch counter, information bureau, news stand and ticket offices. Tliere is another Pacific Electric station on Hill Street, near Fourth. PARKS — There are in Los Angeles twenty-four named parks ranging in size from Griffith Park, 3015 acres, and next to the largest municipal park in the country, to some even smaller than the historic Plaza on North Main and Mar- chessault streets. The most important of these parks, besides those mentioned above are Westlake and Eastlake parks, Elysian Park, Hollenbeck and Echo parks. Prospect Park, Central Park, Exposition Park, Sycamore Grove and Sunset and South parks. These are all described under their respective heads. Some of the smaller parks are as fol- lows: Dixon Park, Ela Park, Everett Park, Marion Park, Occidental, St. James, Terrace and Hazard parks, and Vermont Square. In all the park area of the city is 3896 acres, including some unnamed triangles at street intersections. PERIODICALS— The first newspaper of Los Angeles appeared on May 17th, 1851, and was called The Los Angeles Star. There are now nearly seventy periodicals published in at least seven different lan- guages besides English. They include Chinese and Japanese, Gei-man, French, Italian, Spanish and Basque newspapers, some of them dailies. The most import- ant morning papers are Tlie Times, The Los Angeles Tribune and The Los An- geles Examiner; the important evening papers are The Evening Express, The Evening Herald and The Evening Record. The Times is published in its own hand- some new building at First Street and Broadway, which replaces the one de- stroyed by the dastardly outrage of Oc- tober 1, 1910, in wliieh twenty-two inno- cent lives were sacrificed. The Examiner is published in its own building, the larg- 59 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE est plant of its kind devoted exclusively to the publication of a newspaper west of Chicago. Other important publica- tions besides the dailies are: The B'nai B'rith Messenger, the Builder and Con- tractor, the California Cultivator, the California Independent, the California Outlook, the California Voice, the Com- mercial Bulletin, the Graphic, the Little Farms Magazine, the Oil Age, Out West, the Rounder, Sud-California Post (Ger- man), and the West Coast Magazine, Tlie editor of Out West is Dr. George Wharton James, author of ''In and Out the Old Missions," "Ramona's Coun- try," and many other books of the South- west, and lecturer on every phase and aspect of California life. Rancho La Brea — From asphalt i3its lo- cated on Wilshire Boulevard, some seven miles west of Los Angeles, have been taken about one hundred species of prehistoric birds and animals, species which roamed in Southern California a hundred thousand years ago. Mounted skeletons of the im- perial elephant, the largest of the probis- cidae, standing 131/2 feet high, with tusks 111/2 feet long; the mastodon; giant ground sloth ; ancient ox and horse ; a camel, much like the llama of South America, but four times as large; the dire wolf and sabre- toothed tiger which, owing to their great numbers, must have been a formidable enemy to the herds of herbivorous animals which roamed in California in pleistocene times. This unique display of mounted skeletons may be seen at Exposition Park. PLAYGROUNDS — Los Angeles is abreast of the most progressive cities in the matter of public playgrounds. A Playground Commission is a part of the city government. Seven recreation cen- ters are permanent institutions .in dif- ferent parts of the city and the commis- sion manages in addition nine vacation centers during the summer, taking over for this purpose some of the school grounds. Besides this some of the public schools maintain playgrounds with a trained teacher. -MUSEUM 01' HISTORY, SCIENCE AND AI^T, EXPOSITION PARK (I) American Mastodon, (2) Imperial Elepliant, (3) Giant Ground Sloth, (4) Ancient Ox 60 LUS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE WADING POOL— ECHO PARK PLAYGROUND The three older playgrounds are the Violet Street grounds at 2017 Violet Street; Echo Park grounds at 1620 Belle- vue, a part of Echo Park, and the Slau- son playground at 5739 Fortuna Street. Each of these has a club house, a wading- pool, sand coui-ts, swings, seats under vine-covered pergolas, trees and flowers. The club house of the Slauson ground contains a double bowling alley. Recreation Center is at 1546 St. John Street. There is a club house here also, and full equipment for children's sports. Hazard and Downey playgrounds were opened in 1911. The former consists of eleven acres well equipped for out-door sports requiring space, with a convenient club house for indoor activities. This playground has the advantage of adjoin- ing twenty-five acres of rolling park land. The Downey ground consists of three acres containing a ball field and play apparatus, with a pretty little field house. The club houses all contain a small auditorium or meeting room, showers, dressing rooms and store rooms. They are provided with dishes and gas stoves, so that refreshments can be served and all of them are centers for neighborhood clubs and meetings, young ladies', moth- ers' and parents' clubs, young men's city clubs, dramatic, swimming and athletic clubs, cooking, sewing and gymnastic classes, boys' bands and orchesti-as. The club houses are also used for social dances, properly supervised, and for other evening parties, lectures and entertain- ments. The public library co-operates with the playground department in the mainten- ance of branch libraries at the Violet Street, Slauson, Hazard and Echo Park playgrounds and at the Recreation Cen- ter. These branch libraries are eagerly l)atronized by both the children and their ]iarents. The boys of the different play- ground centers have oi'ganized brass bands 61 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE and through the kindness of generous friends have been supplied with instru- ments. They have drills and friendly contests for trophies at Inter-Playground Field Meets. There are directors for both girls and boys at each ground, some of them living in bungalows on the premises. Besides work directly con- nected with the playgrounds, the commis- sion maintains and manages a summer camp in the San Gabriel Canyon. The purpose is to provide a safe place where growing boys and girls may have a com- plete ohange from city life, with sun- shine, fresh air, space and activity. PLAZA — The little park, not much over an acre in extent, on Marchessault Street, between North Main and North Los An- geles streets. This is the oldest park in the city. It was the geographical center of the original grant of six square miles made by the Spanish government to the Pueblo of Los Angeles. On its western boundary the Church of Our Lady of the Angels was built and around it once clustered the homes of the Spanish-Cali- fornians. Now Chinatown and Sonora town fringe its borders. PLAZA CHURCH— See Church of Our Ladv of the Angels. POINT FIRMIN— The southern point of San Pedro, on the west side of the harbor of Los Angeles. A pretty park borders the high bluff which forms its edge. The view of the breakwater, har- bor, line of coast and of the ocean be- yond is extended and fine. POLO — See Amusements. POPULATION— Estimated (1916) from 525,000 to 550,000. POSTOFFICE— The main Postofifice is in the Federal Building (which see), at the junction of North Main, Spring and Temple streets. General delivery and stamp window hours are from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. There are seventy-three sub- stations and branches, some of them be- ing in the large department stores. PROSPECT PARK— This is one of the smaller parks of the city, containing only two and eighty-eight hundreds acres. It is one of the oldest parks and is filled with fine trees. As it is situated on high land (Echandia Street, Boyle Heights) it affords a fine view of the Sierra Madre mountains. PUBLIC LIBRARY— See Libraries. PUBLIC SCHOOLS— See Colleges and Schools, RAILROADS — Five trans-continental lines serve Los Angeles: The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific, by way of El Paso and New Orleans; the Ogden Route of the same company, connecting with the Central and Union Pacific; the Santa Fe Route by way of Albuquerque; the Rock Island operating part way over the Southern Pacific with its own equip- ment, and the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, which began operation in 1905, opening up a compara- tively unknown section in southern Utah and Nevada. The Southern Pacific has two lines between Los Angeles and San Francisco, one along the coast and the other through the San Joaquin Valley. The Santa Fe also connects with San Francisco by way of Barstow. San Diego is reached by a Santa Fe line. Alto- gether a dozen lines of railway center in Los Angeles. RAILROAD STATIONS — There are three railroad stations in Los Angeles, the Salt Lake, the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific. The Salt Lake passen- ger station is at First Street and Myers. The Santa Fe, on Santa Fe Avenue, be- tween First and Second streets; and the Southern Pacific station, called the Ar- cade Depot, is at Fifth and Central streets. A new Union Station on the site of the Arcade Depot, with Fifth Street widened to make a fine approach, was one of the suggestions of Mr. Charles Mulford Robinson for beautifying the city. RAILROAD TICKET OFFICES— Most of the city ticket offices of the various important railroads of the United States are on Spring Street, between Fifth and Seventh, or on Sixth Street near Spring, the majority being near the junction of Sixth and Spring. RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS — Though charming homes are characteristic of Los Angeles generally and are in the majority in many sections of the city, certain portions are especially noted. Wilshire Boulevard and its cross streets for a few blocks on each side are lined with won- derfully beautiful homes, standing, many of them, in spacious grounds, and none of them crowded. The architecture is varied, some are very unique, but each has its own charm, enhanced by its beau- tiful setting of riotous flowers, velvet lawns and luxuriant foliage. The West Adams District is another choice section. 62 LOS ANr,ELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD TiUTDE Here most of the boraes are older and the gardens even more beautiful, 'fhere is nothing of the new-rich about the West Adams District. The Westhike Dis- trict, surrounding Westhike Park, is an- other especially attractive section. Ilcrlly- wood, now a part of Los Angeles, has long been noted for its beautiful homes in spacious, beautifully cultivated grounds. The hills surrounding the city are dt)tted with handsome places, many of them withdrawn from public view. RESTAURANTS— It is often said that in no city can one obtain as excellent fond nt as low a price ps in Tjos Angeles, Among the cafes of Los Angeles, the Cafe Bristol, which occupies the entire basement of the H. W. Hellman Building, Fourth and Spring streets, stands out as one place where the best of food and en- tertainment can be obtained at popular })rices. William Schneider, the proprietor, realizes that the only way he can get and keep a regular clientele is by always serv- ing the best that the market affords. Another reason for the popularity of the Bristol lies in the fact that the cabaret is always of the highest standard. Some of the most celebi-ated ]:)erformers in the country play engagements there and assist in making the time between courses pass swiftly. The company of entertainers is a large one and is selected so that the voices blend perfectly in the big ensemble num- bei's which are rendered many times during the evening. The sei-vice is another feature that makes a special appeal to dinei's at the cafe. There is no suggestion of hurry or rush, and yet the different courses are put before the guests at the ])roper time, with no tedious delays. The large floor space gives ample room for the tables so that there is no un- comfortable crowding, no edging between chairs and no interruption of a pleasant dinner or lunch. These things all comliinc to make the Bristol one of the most populai' eating places in "the City of the Angels." Other leading restaurants are Jahnke's Cafe, 110 South Spring Street, McKee's at 518 South Spring Street, Levy's at 743 South Spring Street, the New China Res- taurant at 508 South Main Street, the Oriental Restaurant nearly opposite, and Harlow's, 311 South Spring Street. Of pleasant luncheon places there is a gi'eat abundance. All up and downi Broad- way they present enticing front windows, and every hungry shopper or business man or afternoon seeker for "the cup that cheers" can find a place adapted to his or her desires. Among the pleasant- INTERIOR CAFE BRISTOL The rendezvous of the bon vivants antl epicures who visit Los Angeles LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE CLUNE'S AUDITORIUM TIIKATKK The home of moving pictures, built of reinforced concrete, including an auditorium seating 4,000 and an office building. The largest building devoted to moving pictures in the world, and absolutely fireproof est are the Pig'n AYliistle at 224 South Broadway and, further south, Fosgate and Eees' Mission Restaurant at 449 South Broadway, where Mexican special- ties can be obtained in addition to other li'ood things; The Pinton; the Chocolate Shop; Christopher's, where, in addition to the restaurant, a pretty upstairs tea room is open from 3 to 6; and, on Mer- cantile Place, between Fifth and Sixth streets, Broadway and Spring, the charm- ing Copper Tea-Kettle, the successful ven- ture of two Smith College graduates. Almost all the large department stores have very nice cafes on one of their upper floors. At Jevne's store, 208 Spring Street, an excellent luncheon is served, patronized largely by business men and women. Several of the Owl Drug stores make a feature of "lunch- eonettes," a choice of sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper, a handful of ripe olives, a generous piece of pie a la mode Avith coffee, tea or chocolate, a remarkably good combination for only twenty-five cents. The grill rooms of the large hotels furnish the choicest meals and ai'e very popular. There are cafeterias without number, and, one might almost say, with- out price. You pass a loaded tray under the cashier's eye and find your ticket marked nineteen cents. Twenty-nine cents will pay for as much as the hungriest man can eat and the food is of almost uniform excellence, too. Hill Street is especially the home of the cafe- teria, from the Young Women's Chris- tian Association Building, above Third Street, south to Sixth Street. There is an excellent cafeteria in the basement of the Y. W. C. A. Building and the Young Men 's Christian Association also main- 64 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE tains one in the building at 71") South Hoi)e Street. This is Ivept open all night. There is a vegetarian restaurant on Hill Sti'eet near Third. RETAIL DISTRICT— In general terms, this district lies between First and Ninth streets, embracing Hill, Bi'oadway, Spring and Main streets with tlie nuni])t'red cross streets. Among the many noted jewelry houses of Los Angeles that of S. Nordlinger & Sons is probably the most noteworthy. Founded in Los Angeles in 1869 by Mr. S. Noixllinger, one of the early pioneer jewelers of the Pacitic Coast, it had its beginning in a modest little establishment on Commercial Street in the early pueblo days of the City of the Angels when the merchants closed their little stores during the noon hour and went home to lunch. Since 1869 the growth of the business necessitated moving five times, each time to larger quarters. For practically half a cen- tury the house of Nordlinger has been noted for its successful jewelry merchandising and its unswerving policy of fair dealing and fair prices — the solid rock upon which its success has been builded year by year. Mr. Nordlinger was actively at the head of his business for forty-two successive years — right up to the dav of his death in April, 1911. The present large establishment at 631- 633 South Broadway contains one of the largest and most important stock of dia- monds, watches, jeweh-y, silverware, etc., in the West. A department of European art goods was established on the second floor in the spring of 1912, and it is considered the most extensive depaiiment of this character in the Southwest. As the city of Los Angeles has grown to a metropolitan size, so has the house of S. Nordlinger & Sons become the first es- tablishment of its kind in Southern Cali- fornia. It is the only jewelry house in Los Angeles that has been in business continu- ously since 1860 — in fact, it is one of about six concerns established that long ago that is still in business in this city. Tw^o sons, Louis S. and Melville, who were taken into the business in 1907, are carefully main- taining the policies of their father. A cor- dial invitation is extended to all sojourners in Los Angeles to visit this establishment and inspect the many unusual offerings gathered from the four corners of the earth. Lovers of the rare and beautiful in gems of an unusual cliaracter will find in the house of Walton & Company a most superb collection of jewels. It is not by accident that their produc- tions differ so pleasingly from the average commercial wares; ratlier it is the result of an exhaustive study of the works of Vienna, Paris and other European cities dating back for centuries. The rare combination of the unique and artistic which characterizes the designs shown by this house commends them at once to all lovers of the beautiful, while the craftsmanship dis])layed in their construc- tion is typical of the ai'tist rather than the artisan. The black opal, a gem totally different from all others — of radiant irrideseent beauty, the most magnificent of all precious stones — will be found in countless numbers in the stores of Walton & Company. Their collection of this rare jewel is conceded to be the finest in the world. For the convenience of visitors to Cali- fornia Walton & Company have three stores : the San Francisco establishment being lo- cated at 145 Grant Avenue, the Los Angeles store at 348 South Broadway, while at Pasadena this firm has recently opened one of the handsomest establishments of its kind on the Pacific Coast. This store is called the Hotel Maryland Pergola Store and is situated on the corner of Euclid and Colorado. It is arranged rather as a jewel parlor than a store, with an interior of Cir- cassian walnut finish, and the display of gems is most attractively brought out by their encasement in jewel tables. SAN PEDRO— By the annexation of Wil- mington and San Pedro, and by the pur- chase of a narrow strip of land to conned them with the city, Los Angeles became a seaport with her harbor at San Pedro. The brealovater which protects the harbor cost the Federal government over $3,000,000, and was ten years in building. It is tw^o and one-eighth miles long, two hundred feet wide at the bottom, twenty feet at the top, and contains three million tons of stone. At its outer end is a lighthouse with lantern of 142,000 candlepower. SONORATOWN — North of the old Plaza and Church of Our Lady of the Angels, is a quarter given over wholly to Mexicans and some of their homes are old adobe houses which have stood there since the town was young. Some- times an old adobe is back in a yard 65 OUR PARKS Four thousand restful park acres greet tlie hosts who come and see and are conquered annually by parks whose semi-tropical trees and eternal "wearing of the green" ooze health and happiness incessantly m LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE almost out of sight, somctimos it has hceu so freshened by paint or white wash as to be hardly recognized, but a sharp eye will find them. A short dis- tance away is the ancient cemetery where many of the early Spanish settlers are buried. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD^ See Railroads. SOUTHWEST MUSEUM — See Mu- seums. STEAMSHIP LINES — See Coastwise Steamship Lines. STEAMSHIP TICKET OFFICES — These are ])raclically all on Spring Street and mainly in the vicinity of Fifth an,d Sixth. SOUTH PARK— On South Park Ave- nue and Fifty-first Street. This park contains eighteen and five-tenths acres. It is a favorite place for picnics. A mag- nificent double row of palms is one of its distinctive features. SUNSET PARK— On Sixth Street and Benton Boulevard. This is one of the newer parks of the city, containing six- teen and sixty-five hundredths acres. It promises to be one of the most delightful ones. Like Sycamore Grove, Eastlake and South Parks, it has two fine tennis courts. SYCAMORE GROVE — On Pasadena Avenue and Avenue Forty-seven. It con- tains nearly twenty acres and is the fa- vorite picnic park of the city. Every week a dozen or more picnics are held here ranging in numbers from fifty to five hundred. Giant sycamores have inspired its name. Numerous water features, fed from the stream of the Arroyo Seco, add to its attractiveness. Sycamore Grove will form an entrance to the proposed parkway which is to extend through the Arroyo to Pasadena and on to the moun- tains of the National Park Reserve. This will be one of the finest park drives in the country. TAXICABS— See Automobiles. THEATERS — Los Angeles is known as the theater city, where first-class dramatic talent is enthusiastically welcomed and where the drama in general is liberally patronized. Several excellent stock thea- ters are maintained. There are twenty theaters, and a hundred moving picture shows. There are forty establishncents in the city for the manufacture of moving •■'i.Tfnrr" films. The principal theaters of the city are the Morosco New Theatex', Hamburger's Majestic, the Burbank, the Lyceum, the Republic, Mason's Opera House, the Cen- tury and Auditorium. The first five named are virtually under the manage- ment of Morosco. The Morosco New Theater is the house of the Morosco Pro- ducing Company, a stock company which brings out new plays. Mason's Opera House produces only most notable plays. It is under the Frohman management. The Orpheum is the home of tlie I)ost vaudeville. Other good houses are the Hippodrome, Pantages and the Empress. The great Auditorium Theater on Fifth Street, between Olive and Hill, with a seating capacity of 4,000, is now Uic home of Clune's Moving Pictures. It is the largest building of its kind devoted ex- clusively to the production of high-class moving pictures in the world. Clune's photo plays. Tally's and Mo- zart's are among the best of the moving picture shows. A movement among manv of the lovers of drama of the city resulted in the build- ing of a Little Theater, somewhat aftei the plan of the Little Theater of New York. It is used largely for the produc- tion of such serious, intellectual plays as do not always appeal to the general public. The Mission Play is a peculiar feature of Los Angeles, and a great attraction. It presents a fascinating drama founded on early Mission days and is performed every afternoon and evening (except Mon- days) from December to July, in its own l^layhouse at the Mission San Gabriel, six miles away. (See Mission Play.) UNIVERSITY PARK— The northwest- ern part of Los Angeles, west of South Pasadena. VALLEYS — Surrounded by broken ranges of mountains as Los Angsles is, it follows that valleys are also numer- ous in the vicinity, ranging in size from small depressions to the wide, fertile levels of San Gabi;iel and San Fernando valleys. Antelope Valley embraces about one- fourth of Los Angeles County directly south of the Kern County line. It in- cludes the western part of the Mojave Desert. With water the land is very pro- .Inr-i'vii mill it is bpintr r.nnidlv settle'^ 67 THE SIERRAS From wlicnce cometh l.os Angeles water, high up in the Sierras, where nature aerates and cools and pours her bountiful supply of life- giving waters into the aqueduct 68 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE and developed. Almonds are raised in this valley in t;'i'eat abundance. Cahuenga Valley runs west from Los Angeles and is sheltered on the north by the Santa Monica mountains which, by their protection, render the climate of the valley practically frostless. Hollywood, famed for its beautiful homes, is called the Pride of the Valley. Colegrove, Sher- man, Sawtelle, Beverly Hills and Brent- wood are also in this region. (See Ca- huenga Pass). Eagle Rock Valley lies north, or a lit- tle northeast of Los Angeles, between Pasadena and Glendale. Here is the pretty little town of Eagle Rock, on the out- skirts of Avhich are the beautiful new buildings of Occidental College. La Habra Valley is east of Los Angeles, and a little south, in the Puente Hills. "Whittier, a thriving town of 7,000 people, the seat of the Friend's College and of a State Reform School, is in this valley. La Canada is five miles north of Pasa- dena, and about three miles from Glen- dale. The word means a wide canyon. This is one of the most picturesque spots in Southern California. The average ele- vation is fifteen hundred feet. Los Nietos Valley is southeast of Los Angeles, a fertile, well watered section. Pomona Valley adjoins San Gabriel Val- ley on the east, the chief town is Pomona, a rapidly growing city with a population of nearly 15,000. Pomona is surrounded in every direction by orchards of citrus fruits, apricots, i^eaches, prunes and olives. San Fernando Valley is northwest of Los Angeles, lying between the Sierra Madre and Santa Monica mountains, a broad, level, wonderfully fertile plain comprising about 120,000 acres, which has been found to be especially adapted to peaches, though citrus fruits fiourish here also. There have been wonderful devel- opments in this valley Avithin the last few years. New towns have sprung up almost over night, and old towns have taken on new life. The new San Fernando electric line — the opening of great asphalt boulevards connecting with Los Angeles — the coming of Owens River water — the swift commer- cial awakening of historic San Fernando —the extreme fertility of the soil and strikingly low prices of acreage — are con- ditions that must precipitate a veritable rush for San Fernando Mission lands. The extension of the Pacific Electric Railroad system to the western end of the valley, where the new town of Owens- moutli is situated, the extension of elec- tric light service through the valley, the planting of orchards where once were barley fields are part of recent improve- ments. The old San Fernando Mission is in this valley. (See Special Pleasure Trips). San Gabriel Valley — This beautiful and liistoric valley, si retching eastward from Pasadena to the San Jose hills and from the Sierra Madre mountains on the north to the Whittier hills on the south, is one of the veritable garden spots of Southern California. Sheltered on the north by the majestic i-ange of the Sierra Madres and blessed with wonderfully fertile soil and a climate of unusual charm, it was, from its first discovery, a favorite of the old Franciscan fathers. Here they founded one of their first and most prosperous missions called San Gabriel, portions of which are still preserved and used. Later years have brought wondei'ful de- velopments, both in agiiculture and the building of many beautiful towns. Pasa- dena, the principal city, whose Indian name means Crown of the Valley, is famous all over the world, and Alhambra, Moni'ovia, Azusa, Duarte, North Whittier, Glendora, and Covina are other flourish- ing centers, each in the heart of a rich agricultural district. Around these towns and out through the valley are hundreds of beautiful country homes. Scientific irrigation and cultivation of the fertile soil have made the Valley as rich as Nature made it beautiful. One may ride all through it on splendid boule- vards amid thousands of acres of orange, lemon and walnut groves and productive gardens in which are grown all kinds of sub-tropical fruits, plants and flowers. WESTLAKE PARK— This park com- prises thirty-one and fifteen hundredths acres. It is situated in one of the finest residential districts at Seventh and Al- varado streets. The park contains a. lake covering eleven acres, much used for boat- ing and canoeing. There are many fine views from the park. It contains fine trees and beautiful flowers and shrubbery. WILMINGTON— This town was an- nexed with San Pedro to form the Port of Los Angeles. Wilmington is on the inner harbor. It has been raised from seven to ten feet by depositing upon its surface the sand dredged from the harbor. 69 Gems of an Unusual Character Lovers of the rare and beautiful in gems of an unusual character will find in the House of Walton & Company a collection of superb jewels gathered from the four corners of the earth. The rare combination of the unique and the art'stic, commends this jewelry at once to all, while the craftsmanship displayed in the construction is typical of the artist rather than of the artisan. ART IN JEWEL CRAFT Not by accident do our productions differ so pleasingly from the average commercial wares, rather it is the result of an exhaustive study of the work of the artists of European cities dating back for ages. BLACK OPALS Of radiant iridescent beauty, the black opal stands preeminently the most magnificent of all precious stones. Our collection of these gems is conceded to be the finest in the world. ORDINARY TO UNIQUE Many pieces of old fashioned jewelry contain jewels which may be remounted in most attractive form. Our artists are exceptionally skilled in making designs for the rearrangement of stones, and have created many articles of rare merit from jewelry that had become obsolete. Walton & Company Los Angeles 348 So. Broadway Manufacturing Jewelers Pasadena Maryland Pergola Store Corner Euclid and Colorado San Francisco 145 Grant Avenue 70 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD (UJIDK SPECIAL PLEASURE TRIPS HOW TO SEE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BY BOAT, TRAIN, TROLLEY OR AUTOMOBILE The following descriptive trips will prove of great as- sistance as a guide to the tourist who wishes to visit the many places of interest in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Each of these trips begins and ends at Los Angeles, and there are many others equally interesting; in fact, a tourist can easily devote a month to sightseeing, visiting a different place every day, and if he desires be at his hotel in Los Angeles almost every night. SPECIAL PLEASURE TRIPS — There are so many delightful short trips lead- ing out from Los Angeles in every direc- tion that the tourist is constantly lured away from the city to the beaches, the mountains, the orange groves, the mis- sions, and the near-by towns. Weeks can be spent in seeing fresh and interesting sights in the vicinity every day, so that one is tempted to make use of an Irish bull to say that the chief delights of Los Angeles are the pleasant and easy ways of getting somewhere else. However, Los Angeles herself is full of attractions and there are organized trips for seeing the city as well as for taking the tourist out- side. If one has the time it is best to take both the sight seeing automobile, and the sight seeing trolley trips in the city as, except for a portion of the busi- ness streets, they cover different routes. There are a number of sight seeing auto- mobiles operated by different companies. [They start about ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, making stops for passengers at the principal hotels. A half-hour before starting time they may be found along Hill Street, Broadway or Spring. The fare is $1.00. The route first goes over the main business streets, and the principal banks, office buildings and other institutions are pointed out. Then follow the old Plaza and historic Church of Our Lady of the Angels, the adobe homes of the early settlers, the old cemetery where some of the foundei's ai'e buried, the city oil belt, the City Hall, Federal Building and County Court House, the Times Building, Fort Hill, Angels' Flight, Central Park and its surround- ings, Westlake Park. Sunset Park, Occi- dental Park, Luna Park, Wilshire Boule- vard and West Adams Street with their beautiful homes, the residences of many distinguished people, handsome churches, residential "places," ''squares" and "parks," the bungalow district with its wondrous variety of bungalows which have cost as much to build as three-story mansions. Singleton Court with the ruined home and the barn resembling a hanjl- some church, handsome family hotels and apartment houses, school buildings and hospitals, the whole a short half-day's ride, but giving a most interesting gen- eral view of the city and its institutions. The "Seeing Los Angeles" observation trolley car leaves the Pacific Electric sta- tion at Sixth and Main streets every day at two p. ra. The trip covers forty miles, takes thi'ee hours and the price is fifty cents, which includes free admission to the Pigeon Farm and Los Angeles Os- trich Farm. Eastlake Park and the Alli- gator Fai'm are also visited, all exceed- ingly interesting places which are de- scribed in the body of this book. The principal buildings of the city are passed, business streets, churches and many hand- some residences. 71 72 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE BALLOON ROUTE TROLLEY TRIP— Tliis trip gives a \vli()lo day of pleasure and sight seeing for $1.00. The ride is one of great scenic beauty, paralleling the mountains to the sea; then for twen- ty-eight miles it skirts the ocean, includ- ing ten beaches on its way with stops at the principal ones. The route goes first through the tunnels, past the oil district, Elysian and Echo parks, through the beautiful streets of Hollywood, and the Cahuenga Valley with its groves of orange, lemon, walnut and fig trees, through Sherman with its power plants, shops of the Pacific Electric Railway and homes of the company's employes mostl.v owned by the men themselves; past the Los Angeles Country Club, with its pretty white club house and five hundred acres of rolling fields; past Beverly Hills and its handsome hotel, and on to Sawtelle and the Soldiers' Home. Here there is a stop to walk through the handsome grounds of the Home. Superb double rows of Norfolk Island pines are the most striking feature of the place, but there are many other handsome trees and shrubs and beautiful flowers. The plash- ing streams of a large fountain make x-ainbows in the sunshine and fall pleas- antly on the ear. This home comprises forty-five buildings and seven hundred acres of land. It is one of the four orig- inal Soldiers' Homes established by the United States Government. There are National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle: the abiding place of about 3,000 veterans now nine or ten. The inmates number over three thousand. Besides food, shel- ter, clothing and care in sickneses, pro- vision is made for their recreation. In Amusement Hall facilities for games of Ocean Park bathing beach and bath house. Beautiful strand where thousands are entertained all sorts are furnished, and a library of over eight thousand volumes and 114 periodicals provides the men with plenty of interesting reading. The sad note con- nected with all this is that the deaths among these veterans average nearly one a day. On a near-fcy hillside is a beau- tiful cemetery connected with the home. In this vicinity was the famous Wolfskill ranch, comjDrising 3,800 acres. From the Soldiers' Home the car goes on to Santa Monica and the sea. Santa Monica is located on the Pa- cific, eighteen miles from Los Angeles. Linda Vista Park extends along the bluff above the water and makes a lovely picture, with its shrubbery and bright pink moss borders outlined against the blue ocean. Santa Monica is a beautiful city of 20,000 population built on a high plateau and extending for two miles along the ocean. Mountains, cleft by picturesque canyons, bound it on the north and east, and form a setting in sharp contrast to the modern city which they almost en- circle. Santa Monica is a happy combi- nation of a city of permanent and beau- tiful homes, with wide, beautifully shaded streets, splendid boulevax-ds, fine schools and churches, and an all-the-year-round seaside resort of unusual attractions. Surf bathing is pleasurable almost every day in the year, the fishing is exceptionally fine and there is a splendid concrete pleasure pier sixteen hundred feet long and fifty feet wide built and owned by the city. The Cafe Nat Goodwin is a most attractive place, built on a pier over the sea, affording from its dining rooms, sun parlors and roof garden unob- structed views of the beach and ocean. The service is of the best. 73 ^ DO NOT FAIL TO VISIT VE N I C E ±he Popular Resort 14 Miles from Los Angeles VENICE IS a city or Amusements and Homes VENICE IS quickly reached by Electric Cars ana Autos VENICE nas many Hotels, Apartment Houses and the best equipped Bungalo\v ana Villa City m the NA^orla for the ac-' commodation of visitors. FOR ALL INFORMATION REGARDING VENICE, WRITE THE Venice CnamDer o/^ Commerce VENICE, CALIFORNIA. 74 LOS ANIIELES-SAN DIVMO STANDARD (iUIDH Oceaiisidc and country drives offer op- portunities for motoring, driving and rid- ing. The ocean drive along the cliffs a hundred feet above the surf is wonderful for scener.v. A famous automobile race is held annually on the Santa Monica Boulevard, and each contest sees the world's record lowered. Half a dozen moving picture concerns have producing plants in or near Santa ]\Ionica, the scen- ery and climate being peculiarly favorable for the work. From Santa Monica the car passes for two miles along the boulevard on the r ^ WtJP' '■* '' ' ^^^^ \ 1 1 ""?^ J . w Tlie canals at X'enice; replicas of those of the city of far Eastern lore water's edge and then the beaches come in quick succession, Ocean Park, Venice, Playa del Rey, El Segundo, Manhattan, Shakespeare Beach. Hermosa Beach, Moon- stone Beach and Redondo, each one with its own especial attractions. Venice is the Mecca for thousands of pleasure lov- ers, but it is more than this; it is a rap- idly growing city of apartment houses and homes, with a population of over 8,000. It is built in imitation of its European prototype, with winding canals edged by brilliant pink moss, and high bridges under which the gondolas can pass. Along the great pleasure pier, and within a short distance from it, is every device and • equipment known to amuse^ ment resorts. There is also an enoromus bath house, an auditorium and a most interesting aquai'ium. A miniature rail- way with a train of seven cars winds in and out among the canals for a two- mile trip. A scenic railway offers a ride in the clouds. In St. Mark's Plaza a good band plays every afternoon and evening, and the squai'e is lillecl with seat, for the listeners. A ship drawn up at the pier is made over into an excellent and picturesque cafe; booths and small shops offer all sorts of wares. Every inch of the place is full of life and interest. At Playa del Rey (tlie playground of the king) is a lagoon for batliing and boat- ing. El Segundo is a new industrial city. Here are situated the great refinei'ies of the Standard Oil Company. At Ocean Park is a pleasure pier and there are the usual amusement features. At Moonstone Beach a stop is made and all have an opportunity to gather the moonstones and other pretty pebbles which abound on this beach. Jasper and water agates, as well as moonstones, are found. Redondo Beach is one of the larger resorts. Here is a verv large hot salt water plunge bath recently^ built at a cost of $200,000. The building contains three pools, the largest being 70 by 157 feet. The babies' pool is 30 by 70 feet, with water from one to two feet deep. In the high diving pool the water is nine feet deep. There are also in the building tub baths of every description, sun parlors and every convenience. The surf bathing at Re- dondo is very fine. The place has also a wide reputation for fishing, which is good at all seasons of the year. There are all sorts of amusement features here, hotels and a tent city among the trees. There are restaurants on every hand and here the car stops long enough for the fish dinner which every one is ready to enjoy. On the return a stop of nearly two hours is made at Venice, and Los Angeles is reached about half past six. 'I'he "Paseo" at Redondo Beach, one of the nearb" amusement resorts of Los Angeles ^J^ '^1... ^ LA MONACA'S VENICE OF AMERICA BAND, WORLD'S GREATEST DANCING PAVILION, VENICE BEACH AND LARGEST HEATED AND FILTERED SALT WATER PLUNGE IN THE WORLD, 99}^% PURE LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE KITE SHAPED TRIP— This is a trip over a double loop of the Santa Fe Kail- road, including Redlands, Riverside and San Bernardino, with the hundreds of acres of orange groves surrounding them, and many interesting smaller towns. No part of the route is passed over twice in going and returning. About a two hours' stop is made at both Redlands and River- side, long enough for an automobile ride in each place, which will show the beau- ties of the surrounding scenery. The train leaves the Santa Fe station, L()s Angeles, at 8:30 a. m. and reaches there in return at 6 :10 p. m., after a day of wonderfully delightful experiences. An observation parlor car, built and decorated on mission lines, carries the kite-shaped track excursionists. The double loop of the route is in the form of a figure eight, the larger loop being between Los An- geles and San Bernardino, where the two loops join. The smaller one is between San Bernardino and Mentone, including in its circle. Arrowhead, Highlands and Red- lands. On leaving the Los Angeles Santa Fe station at Santa Fe Avenue and First Street, the train passes first through High- land Park, the former seat of Occidental College, and Garvanza, where is the art building of the University of Southern California, both towns a part of Los An- geles. Then comes South Pasadena and at the right the Raymond Hotel stands out conspicuously from its flower-decked grounds. A few miles further and the live oaks of Laraanda Park are reached, and next is Santa Anita, the gi'eat "Lucky" Baldwin ranch, comprising dur- ing his lifetime 49,000 acres of orchards, vineyards and gi-ain fields. Sierra Madj-e is passed, a beautiful little town of 1,600 population nestling in the foothills of the mountains. Monrovia is also a beauti- ful foothill town one thousand feet above the sea level with views that, like *hose of Sierra Madre, are unsurpassed. Duarte and Azusa follow. Although the present toAvn of Azusa was established in 1887, its history goes back to the early history of the State. It Avas a part of one of the old Spanish and later Mexican grants, and the ranch of which it was a part then consisting of 4,431 acres, was pur- chased in 1844 by Henry Dalton, who married the Senorita Zamereno. It be- came a trading settlement, where Span- iards and Indians pursued their vocations of hunting, herding and planting, weav- ing, blaeksmithing and saddle making. In 38f)5 the first school-house was built, tlic walls of brush woven between poles, the floor of earth and the roof of shakes. Here the Mexican youths were taught the rudiments of knowledge. Fine school buildings of the most modern type have replaced the brush shelter of early days. Covina, Glendora, San Dimas, North Po- r Orange groves, cities and snow-clad mountains. A vista from Smiley Heights, Redlands mona and Claremont are passed in quick succession, linked together by fruitful orange groves where fragrant blossoms fill the train with perfume. Claremont is the seat of Pomona College (see Col- leges and Schools). Cucamonga, just be- yond, was a settlement on the old stage road between Los Angeles and San Ber- nardino. A little further and we reach San Bernardino, the intersection of the two loops. This city, the county seat of San Bernardino County, is one of the old- est of American Southern California towns, having been settled by Mormon colonists in 1851. It has an elevation of over a thousand feet, and is a mining as well as citrus fruit growing center. The scenery around San Bernardino beggars description. Ranges of mountains appear, one behind the other, with lofty white peaks rising high above the general range. When, in winter, all are clothed in snowy white, the contrast with the smil- ing gi'een valleys below makes a scene of indescribable beauty. Six miles north from San Bernardino, Arrowhead station is reached. This is the station for the Arrowhead Hot Springs, which were famous with the Indians for their medicinal virtues long before the white man came ; they bubble out of the mountain side boiling hot and flow down a ravine in a 77 ^^ ^317-325 iF^^^ 312-322 VJ SO. BROADWAY SO. HILL STREET' for more than twenty years has stood here supplying this city with the finest the world knows how to make in Everything Women and Children Wear Today it is still supplying these beautiful things — but at prices that average lower than many stores the world over believe possible. Cumnock School of Kxpression offers a three years' course in all branches of Literary Interpretation, including Story Telling Dramatic Art Public Speaking Dramatic Theory Short Story Writing Art Music Physical Training CUMNOCK ACADEMY is an accredited school offering four }'cars' course — college pre- paratory or general. Instruc- tion in special subjects by faculty of EXPRESSION SCHOOL. Sub-preparatory courses in the 7th and 8th grades. BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS in a charming, retired location. Healthful outdoor recreation — gymnasium, basket- ball, tennis, horseback riding. Limited number of boarding students. Write for catalogue of either school; or our field secretary will call by request. MARTHA C. WEAVER, A. M. DIRECTOR 1500 South Figueroa St. Los Angeles, Cal. 78 T.OS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE steaming stream, while down another ravine but a short distance away a pure, cold moun- tain stream is flowing. On tlie face of the mountain, visible for thirty miles away, is the plainly marked perfect figure of an arrowhead, 1,115 feet in length and 396 feet in width, drawn or sculptured on the mountain side without a flaw. Dif- fering from so many mountain symbols, it needs no imagination to trace its sharply cut outlines. The figure is made in a growth of white sage springing from light gray decomposed granite. The background is dark earth supporting a thick growth of dark green chaparral. It has been there as far back as the brain of man can trace it, back to the days when the first white men learned to speak with the Indians and were told that for their an- cestoi's the great arrowhead pointed the way to the healing springs. They have a legend that it was made by a fiery ar- rowhead hurled from the sky in a battle between two warrior gods. Whether God- made, man-made or nature-made, we can- not tell. We only know that Time has not blurred its outlines and the ravages of the elements have made no impression upon it. A few miles further and Highlands is reached, picturesque in situation, and sur- rounded by orange groves on every hand. Then comes Mentone, the extreme point of the smaller loop, where the train swings around on the return trip, but there is no repeating, for new towns and new scenery greet the eye at every curve. Redlands, sixty-six miles from Los Arj- geles, is reached soon after eleven. Here there is a stop of two hours and ten min- utes, long enough for a drive up Smiley Heights, through Canyon Crest Park and along the tree-lined avenues, between groves of oranges, through some of the most beautiful portions of this beautiful city. North, east and south, the snow- tipped mountains lie round about it; on the west the vallej-s open. Orange groves are everywhere, surrounding the hand- some homes or covering the level acres of the valley. Handsome churches and schools and a beautiful library building add to the attractions of the city. After luncheon at Casa Loma, one of the charming hotels of Southern Califor- nia, the trip proceeds, through Colton to Riverside, which is reached at 2:15. Here time is allowed for an automobile ride through the principal streets, like those of Redlands, shaded by graceful Riverside Mission Inn, famous for its architecture, its Mission furnishings and unbounded hospitality pepper trees and eucalyptus with orange and lemon groves everywhere; and up Roubidoux mountain, where the field of vision is widened at every foot of rise. Then back to the famous Glenwood Mis- sion Inn. There is time enough left to examine the court, the library, the clois- ters and music room. It is a place so full of interest and beauty that everyone must leave it with regret. Automobiles for the drive meet the incoming trains. (See Chapter on Hotels of Southern Cali- fornia.) After leaving Riverside, the train passes through Arlington, Corona, Rich- field, Placentia, La Mirada, Los Nietos, Whittier and Rivera, all pretty, growing towns where citrus and deciduous fruits and walnut trees flourish. At Whittier, in the Puente hills, is a Friends' College, and the State reform school. Rivera is the center of the walnut gi'owing indus- try. At 6 :10 La Grande station, Los An- geles, is reached. One hundred and fifty-eight miles have been traveled over a route which for diversity and interest can scarcely be equalled. The fare for the trip includes stop-over privileges, if one wishes to stay a short time at any point. This does not include the drives at Redlands and Riverside, which are optional and extra. (See also Orange Belt Special.) LAUREL CANYON, INCLUDING LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN— Take a Holly- wood car marked Laurel Canyon, at Hill- Street station of the Pacific Electric. The entrance to Laurel Canyon is reached through Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard. Here connection is made with the trackless trolley ear, the first in America. The car passes first between 79 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE orange and lemon groves, over Laurel Canyon Mountain Boulevard into the can- yon proper. The road winds and turns with the little mountain brook, giving glimpses here and there of pretty homes half hidden in the trees. After a two- mile ride the junction of this boulevard with the Lookout Mountain road is reached. This is the terminus of the trackless trolley in the center of Canyon Castle Park, which is the site of the new Canyon Castle Hotel. Here is a rustic inn where delicious chicken dinners, or lighter refreshments, are served under the trees, on the shady porches, or in the pleasant dining room. As the trackless trolley car makes frequent trips there is plenty of time to explore. Continuing along Laurel Canyon road we pass more beautiful homes where the grounds have been adapted to the natural beauties of rock and boulder and enhanced by foun- tains and waterfalls. Further on the Laurel Park golf grounds are reached and just beyond is San Ternando summit, which affords a wide panoramic view of the San Fernando Valley, the towns of Van Nuys, Owensmouth, Burbank and of the old San Fernando Mission itself. This summit is only a ten minutes' walk from where the trolley was left. Returning to that point and taking the turn to the right we are in the Lookout Mountain road, which passes through another part of Canyon Castle among scores of unique bungalows. When the summit of Lookout Mountain is reached we discover that its name is fully justified. The vision en- compasses the city and the sea and the towns between ; it sweeps the length of the Cahuenga Valley, embraces Hollywood, Shei-man, Beverly Hills, Sawtelle, the Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica, Venice and Playa del Rey, a wonderful view, well worth the slight effort of the climb. The way is not steep and there are no difficult places. Returning to the track- less trolley we ride back to the Hollywood car. The fare on the trackless is ten cents each way. MT. LOWE— The Mt. Lowe trip is an excursion worth coming many miles to take, a wonderful experience which can- not be repeated elsewhere. There are higher mountains which are accessible, but in comprehensive and varied views, in steep grades and in the overcoming of engineering difficulties which amounted almost to impossibilities, the Mount Lowe trip is unique. Trains leave the Pacific Electric station at Sixth and Main streets at 8, 9, and 10 a. m., and at 1 :30 and 4 p. m. The trip to Alpine Tavern takes two hours. We cross a portion of the San Gabriel Valley, pass the Raymond Hotel and Hotel Maryland in Pasadena and go on to the north through Altadena, which lies just at the foot of the mountain. Soon the track begins to climb, winding around shoulders of the mountain, and opening new scenes at every curve. If it is late winter or On the trail of Mount Lowe to tlie summit of the famous mountain early spring, the poppy fields of Altadena are spread below like sheets of gold. Soon Rubio Canyon is reached, a beauti- ful cool glen between Mt. Wilson and Mt. Lowe, twenty-two hundred feet above the sea. This is the beginning of the incline which reaches up to Echo Mountain thir- ty-five hundred feet altitude, an ascent .of thirteen hundred feet in the three thous- and which are to be traveled to reach the top of the incline. A look up the steep slope is startling, but we know the cable is tested to one hundred tons and never carries more than five; we know the car with its tiers of seats rising one above the other is fastened to the cable permanently, not held by a grip, and we seat ourselves with confidence. The grades of the incline vary from forty-eight to sixty-two per cent, an almost unbeliev- able degree of steepness. Reaching the summit of Echo Mountain, much of in- terest is found. First and always is the glorious view. Nearer at hand is the power house to be examined and the mechanism that pulls the car. On the crest is the great search-light brought from the Columbia Exposition in 1893. It is of 3,000,000 candlepower and at night 80 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE Mount Lowe Incline Railway can light up the whole mountain side, cast its rays into the deepest canyons, or send its beams over cities in the val- ley below. Mt. Lowe observatory is close by, containing a large and powerful tele- scope and a very fine spectroscope. The great purity of the air makes this a pe- culiarly favorable situation for the use of both instruments. From Echo Mountain the third and the most spectacular stage of the journey be- gins. The trolley car climbs fifteen hun- dred feet in the five miles between Echo Mountain and Alpine ; there are 127 curves and twenty bridges in these five miles, and, at times, on looking down, five sep- arate lines of rails can be seen, and at one place by looking up and down, nine are visible. The longest piece of strai,sht track is only 120 feet. The circular bridge is one of the seemingly impossible engi- neering feats, spanning a canyon, reach- ing around a mountain spur and ascending as it goes. The car passes through the Granite Gateway, passes Los Flores Can- yon, Millard's and Grand canyons, and always climbing until, five thousand feet above the sea, Alpine Tavern is reached. All the way has been a succession of beau- tiful views over San Gabriel, La Canada and San Fernando valleys, over Altadena, Pasadena, Los Angeles and smaller towns, over the ocean to Santa Catalina, Santa Barbara, San Clemente and the San Nich- olas Islands. In places the view is wide; again there are only glimpses between the trees. Alpine Tavern is a pretty hotel sur- rounded by gnarled live oaks and tall pines standing at the head of Grand Can- yon, the upper tei'minus of the trolley line. A large central hall with a mam- moth stone fireplace gives a most hospi- table air to the place. The meals are excellent. Near-by are a number of tent cottages for those who desire to live out of doors. The ''trail" starts from the tavern and winds three miles to the sum- mit of the mountain, eleven hundred feet above the tavern. The trip may be made by ponies or burros, or by walking if one desires. The view from the summit, of course, surpasses all the rest, but many prefer the quiet enjoyment of the tavern and vicinity and go no further. Besides the trail to the summit there are numer- ous other pleasant trips over the moun- tains to be taken from the tavern. In the winter the snow is often deep on Mt. Lowe and Mt. Wilson, and an hour's ride from. 81 St. Peter's, Rome, nor the Cathedral at Cologne, nor yet Notre Dame, hath the quiet, restful gr.-in.lcin- ..f tlu- Missions of Southern California in and around Los Angeles S2 LOS AN(iELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE Pasadena will take one from roses rioting in the open air to snow tields and icicles. One may follow the tournament of roses on New Year's morning by a game of snowball on ]\It. Lowe or Mt. Wilson in the afternoon. The i-ound trip fare for Mt. Lowe is $2.50 from Los Angeles. Above the clouds on Mount Lowe, 6,000 feet above the floor of the San Gabriel Valley MT. WILSON— From the summit of Mt. "Wilson is seen one of the most beau- tiful panoramic views in the world, range upon range of mountains, broad and fer- tile valleys, groves and orchards, fields and vineyards, the shores of Long Beach, San Pedro and around to Santa Monica, the island lying miles out from shore with the Pacific rolling between, and per- haps, if it is very clear, Point Loma away on the southern horizon. An auto- mobile road to the summit is now open to the public. People using the road do so at their own risk. The company will not be responsible for accidents. At tlie toll house on Santa Anita Avenue, pri- vate machines are given a book of regu- lations, giving distances, rules governing use of road, etc. There is an average grade of ten per cent. The summit is nine and one-quarter miles from the toll house. An automobile stage is operated between Pasadena and the summit. It leaves Pasadena at 9 :30 a. m., arrives at the summit at 11 :45. On returning it leaves at 3 p. m., and arrives at Pasadena at 4:45. Seats should be engaged in advance. Full information can be obtained at the Pasa- dena office, 173 East Colorado Street, or at any of the information bureaus in Los Angeles. The fare is $4.00 for the round trip. The views on this road are unsurpassed. l\It. Wilson can also be reached by trail from Sierra Madre. At Si.xth and Main streets, Los Angeles, take a Pacific Electric car for Sierra Madre, a fifty minutes' ride over one of the prettiest routes in the system. Sierra Madre is a beautiful little city, which could live on its scenery if any town could. From no place is it so easy by trail to get into the mountains for which the town was named. Llere at the Mt. Wilson stables burros, mules and saddle horses can be obtained. A burro is $2.00 for the round trip; mules or horses ai'e $2.50. On the summit of Mt. Wilson is an enormous solar observatory, and a museum connected with it which contains all the photographs of the heavenly bod- ies taken here. OLD MISSION TROLLEY TRIP— This is one of the all-day trips of the Pacific Electric, a day of the most vai'ied de- lights, embracing Pasadena, famed all over the continent for its beauty, a visit to hoary old San Gabriel Mission and a stop at the Cawston Ostrich Farm. The route lies along the foothills of the Sierra INIadre mountains and throuch the beau- tiful San Gabriel Valley, with constantly varying views of mountains, hills, charm- ing towns and smiling fields checkered with orange groves and vineyards. Shortly before reaching San Gabriel the train passes thi'ough Alhambra, known as the Gateway to the San Gabriel Vallev. It is a pretty modern city with a $50,000 library, fine schools and many charming homes. At San Gabriel the first stop is made and time is allowed to go through the church, examine the interesting historical relics and to get a glimpse of the quaint little town. San Gabriel Mission may truthfully be called the Mother of Los Angeles, for it was from here that Felipe de Neve, accompanied by Padres of the Mission, pablodores, soldiers and Indians, set out one September day in 1781 to found the Pueblo de Nuestra Senora. Reina de Los Angeles. San Gabriel itself was founded just ten years earlier by the Franciscan padres, Somera and Cambon. who, with ten soldiers, marching north from San Diego, came to this wide and beautiful valley under the shelter of the Sierra Madre mountains. Selecting a favorable location they erecfed a large wooden cross, sprinkled the ground with holy water and with hymns and prayers dedicated the spot to San Ga^oriel Arcangel. The Indians at fii'st regarc/ing these demon- strations with curiosity, scon assumed a 83 FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA IN AN HOUR Where else do the confines of a single hour compensate with a dip in the surf, a drive through a world of fruits and flowers, under the influence of limitless sunshine, to a battle of snow balls among the clouds? 84 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE hostile attitude, which threatened the lives of the whole party, but the mis- sionaries, unfurlini^ before them a large banner on which was painted a life- size picture of the Virgin, were, notwith- standing their faith, astonished at the ef- fect it produced. The Indians immediately prostrated themselves upon the ground with every sign of submission. From this propitious beginning the Mission grew and prospered until, with its fertile fields and vineyards, its cattle and sheep upon a thousand hills, and its herds of horses grazing in the valleys, it came to be called the Queen of the Missions. Its gardens overflowed with plenty. There were oranges, limes, citrons, apples, pears, peaches, pomegranates, figs and grapes in abundance. From the grapes five or six hundred barrels of wine were made an- nually and two hundred barrels of brandy. The San Gabriel wine was much sought after. But all was held by the padres as a sacred trust. As with the other mis- sions hospitality was unlimited. No trav- eler who crossed their thresholds passed on his way unrefreshed. Romantic Old Mission San Galjiicl. One of the few remaining links with the days of the early Dons The San Gabriel Indians seem to have been superior to many of the early Cali- fornia Indians, with some customs of civ- ilization. Marriages between those near of kin was forbidden. Robbery was un- known. They had names for the points of the compass and the North Star, and a name for God signifying Giver of Life. They were taught by the padres all sorts of handicrafts and in time became so skilful that they built a ship which was launched in San Pedro harbor. They as- sisted in preparing the first temporary place of worship and a garrison for the soldiers which were built, palisade fash- ion, on the banks of the river Temblores. During the last decade of the eighteenth century the site of the mission was changed and the present edifice was be- gun. It was finished in the early years of the nineteenth century. The main walls, six feet thick, are built of stone up to the windows; from there up of brick. There was formerly a tower on the south- east corner which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1812. The original roof was destroyed then and replaced by an- other of tiling. The buttressed walls and pierced cam- panile of San Gabriel are familiar pictures. Poets have sung of them; artists have transferred their characteristics to canvas. Verse and picture have touched the imagi- nation, but the sight of these brown, lichened walls and of the bells still swing- ing in their niches reaches deeper and moves the heart. There are older churches on the Atlantic Coast, but they were built in communities and towns already estab- lished because the people wanted them. These old churches of our western coast were planted in a virgin wilderness by men of vision, and our first cities and towns grew up about them. Many of them suf- fered by earthquakes and all by years of neglect, but in their best days they were far finer structures than those earlier churches of the Atlantic Coast, and this, notwithstanding the infinite difficulties to be overcome. Lacking mill and kiln and quari'y the Indians were taught to supply these needs, the raw materials had to be found and where seemingly necessary ma- terials were wanting, the fertile brains of the padres found substitutes. Under similar circumstances our Puritan ancestors built churches of logs in which to worship. These men, by faith and infinite patience built massive walls of architectural beauty, which even after years of abuse and neglect have endured more than a century and a quarter. Under secularization San Gabriel suffered rapid deterioration. At many of the mis- sions the padres remained at their posts and as far as possible ministered to their scattered flocks ; one perished of starvation rather than forsake his Indians; but their lands were taken frorq them and in the end nearly all the missions had to be aban- doned. San Gabriel, once Queen of the Missions, suffered with the rest. In some cases it has taken long years of litigation 85 Dresden Apartments 1919 WEST SEVENTH STREET 10 Minutes to City 100 Rooms — Steam Heat — All Outside MODERN IN EVERY DETAIL Beautiful First Floor Amusement Room. 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A ]\Iission Hotel, where courtesy, effi- ciency, perfect cuisine, a restful lobby, a library, a billiard room; all add to a guest's comfort and pleasure. W. B. CORWIN, Owner and Manager 86 LOS ANGELES-SAN DTEOO STANDARD OUIDE for the church (o repossess lierself of such of the missions as now belong to her; in (lie nieuntinie the abandoned and half- luined establishments have been shame- fully plundered. Roofing- and paving tiles have been carried away for secular uses. Kven the bells have been stolen and some of them put to profane uses. One of them was hung between two posts on a ranch and used to call the laborers to dinner. So the task of restoring again to spiritual uses such of these missions as could be so used has been a heavy one. Faniiius Rusch Gardens at Pasadena, the "Crown City" of the famous San Gabriel Valley Since 1908 San Gabriel has been a charge of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. They have rebuilt the old chapel, ]iut the church in good condition and col- lected as many as possible of the scattered relics pertaining to the church. These are now displayed to good advantage and are accessible to visitors. There is a large collection of paintings, many of them from Spain and Mexico and some of much artis- t ic merit ; there are old vestments, altar cloths, tools, records, candle-sticks, proces- sional crosses and many other interesting- things. The original, hand-hewn doors of the mission are preserved in one of the rooms. They are decorated with large copper nails. Two of the doors w'ere hung on pivoted hinges. Tiie baptistry is very interesting. The font is a huge copper bowl hammered out by the Indians, and resting on a massive stone base. There are many Indian relics, such as arrowheads, stone mortars and jjcstles, baskets, etc. The library contains some rare volumes printed early in the sixteenth century and one printed in 1489. Most valued of all are the documents. San Gabriel in fortunate in possessing all of her records from the foundation and she has many other docu- ments bearing the signatures of the founders and of Father Serra. Tliei-e are also pai-chmcnts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; aiul a map of the Holy Land made in 1705. From the dim light of the church and the contemplation of these relics of bygone centuries we step out into the sunshine and present-day San Gabriel. The electric railway, electric lights, the new residence of the fathers and a few other modern buildings connect us with our own day, but all through the town there lingers the flavor of a century that is closed. Black- eyed children playing in the street are talking Spanish. Many of the houses are adobe. Not far from the church is the en- closure wherein is gi-owing a famous old grape vine. It was planted in 1775, covers 9,000 square feet and the main trunk is five and a half feet in circumfer- ence. If, according to directions on a placard, a rope is pulled which hangs out- side the enclosure, a large bell inside is rung which brings someone to the door in the wall. Ten cents admits us into this ai'bor, which is the entire yard over which the vine is trained. There is so much which is interesting to see in San Gabriel that a whole day spent there is none too much, especially if it is during the season of the Mission Play. In that case it is charming to bring a luncheon and eat it at one of the little tables under the arbor, ordering to drink with it grape juice made from the fruit of the famous vine. They will also furnish luncheons. The Mission Playhouse, where John Mc- Groarty's Mission Play is produced twice daily from December to July, is directly across the road from the church. (See Mission Play.) Pasadena is the next stop. Here two hours are allowed which gives time for an automobile ride about the city, through per- fumed Orange Grove Avenue, past the many beautiful homes, surrounded by grounds still more beautiful, and the splendid hotels in their park-like surroundings, to the famous Busch Gardens, in which there is time for a walk. The automobile is optional, but well worth the additional special rate of 40 cents. For further de- scription of Pasadena see Pasadena Auto- mobile Trip. From Pasadena the route passes through a line of attractive foot- hill towns nestled under the shadows of 87 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE the Sierra Madre. At Glendora, the east- ern terminus of the trip, one of the best equipped orange packing houses in the dis- trict is visited. It is an interesting sight to watch the washing, sorting and packing of the fruit, all but the wrapping done by machinery which almost seems to possess human intelligence. The process of making the boxes and nailing on the covers is as interesting as sorting the oranges. Coming back to Los Angeles the route passes near the Huntington mansion and through South Pasadena by many handsome bungalows and homes. Famous Cawston Ostrich Farm, strangest of sights and one of never-failing interest The last stop is at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, a place known East and West and famous, not only for its large flock of live birds, but for the quality of plumes pro- duced there. (See Ostrich Fai'ms.) Ad- mission to the farm is free for excursion- ists of this trip. Price of the trip, exclu- sive of automobile in Pasadena, $1.00. ORANGE BELT EXCURSION— This ex- cui'sion is a combined trip of the Salt Lake Railroad and Southern Pacific, including, like the kite-shape trip, Riverside, Redlands and much of the best orange and lemon-pro- ducing countx'y in the world. Also like the kite trip, the routes going and returning are different. From Los Angeles to River- side the way is by the Salt Lake Railroad. The rest of the route is by the Southern Pacific. But the loop is nai-rower than on the kite-shaped track. Except Riverside and Redlands, none of the same towns are passed through as on the kite-shaped track which runs farther north into the foothill region and somewhat further south. In the Orange Belt Excursion three hours are given to Riverside and it is planned so that luncheon mav be had at the Mission Inn. The trip is personally conducted by an in- telligent guide who points out all places of interest and is ready to answer all ques- tions. The train leaves the First Street Salt Lake station at 8:40 a. m. On board- ing the train ask for the Orange Belt Ex- cursion conductor. Soon the train is flying past truck gardens, past walnut groves from which are shipped annually thou- sands of tons of nuts, through the old Pico ranch of other days, past big dairies, the Lucky Baldwin ranch, bee ranches, the pink and white rose hedges of a rose nursery and then comes Pomona, and the scent of orange blossoms fills the car. Po- mona Valley, opening out from the eastern end of San Gabriel Valley, was once a grazing ground for the mission flocks and herds. Later, in the years of seculariza- tion, Governor Alvarado granted to Ignacio Palomares and Rieardo Vejar, two of his soldiers, 25,000 acres out of the mission lands. This grant was known as the Rancho San Jose and it included all the territory on which are located Pomona, Lordsburg, Claremont and part of San Dimas. Gradually after California came into possession of the United States this land was cut up into small holdings. In 1875 Pomona was platted and the same year the Southern Pacific Railroad was built throi;gh the town. A prize of a town lot was offered for the best name suggested for the new city. The man who won sold his lot for $125." Today it is worth $35,000. Pomona has a population of 12,500, and is increasing rapidly. It is an up-to-date town in every particular with fine streets, pretty parks, handsome business houses, superior schools, including a manual train- ing school and a polytechnic high, and eighteen churches. The citrus industry is its greatest source of revenue, though deciduous fruits and small fruits are also extensively raised, and a large fruit can- nery is in operation. The raising of sugar beets is also profitable and there is a beet sugar factory with an annual output of 2.500 carloads. Pomona College was established here, but later moved to Claremont. We leave the pretty station surrounded by flowers and hedges and soon reach Ontario, a town of over 6,000 and growing at the rate of about ten arrivals daily. The land on which Ontario stands was bought and platted in 1882 by the Chaffay Brothers, two Canadians from the province of Ontario. It possesses the same ad- vantages as Pomona of soil, abundant LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE water, steam and electric trains, gas, electricity, fine schools and business houses, twenty-one churches and no saloons, which are forbidden for all time, every deed carrying the prohibitive clause. Euclid Avenue is the main thoroughfare. It rises gradually from a level of less than a tliousand feet at the city hall to an alti- tude of twenty-flve hundred. This high- way is two hundred feet wide and seven miles long. The electric railroad tracks, shaded by beautiful pepper and grevilla trees, occupy the center. On either side are palm-bordered carriage drives. Beau- tiful homes and orange groves face the avenue on the right and left. From the top of Euclid Avenue is a magnificent view. The air is usually so clear that mountains a hundred miles away, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean, may be seen. Likewise looking southward one sees the Santa Ana range; to the southeast, Mount San Jacinto and to the west, the San Gabriel mountains. Ontario, like Pomona, is traversed by the tracks of the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific, by the main line of the Santa Fe and by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroads. The packing house of the Citrus Fruit Association is one of the largest in the State. Deciduous fruit is extensively raised and there is an enormous canning factory Avith a yearly output of 5,000,000 cans. The Pacific Electric Heating Com- pany manufacture here the "Hot Point" iron and electric percolators and there are many other industries. We pass through part of the big Chino Ranch, once embracing 50,000 aci'es. The land is now largely given over to walnuts, sugar beets and alfalfa. Then Wineville, the shipping point for a great wine indus- try is reached. The soil looks like barren sand, but flourishing vineyards line the track on the right and on the left for miles. Mt. San Antonio of the Sierra Madre range is seen in the distance. Just before reaching Riverside the Santa Ana river is crossed on a beautiful concrete bridge. At Riverside an automobile meets the train. The ride is optional, of course, but a dollar and a half and an hour and a half were never spent to happier advan- tage than in the drive through the beau- tiful streets of Riverside and over the smooth rock-bordered road that -winds around Roubidoux Mountain, which lies on the route of El Camino Real. It is probable that the padres passed along A type of the roads that surround Los Angeles, lead- ing through the domain of the Orange its base many times on their journeyings from one mission to another, and a cross has been erected on the summit to the memory of the Padre Presidente, Junipero Serra. At sunrise on Easter morning a unique and beautiful act of woi'ship takes place at the foot of this cross. Those who participate gather in the early dawn, climb the mountain and with the first bright rays of the sun lift up their voices in prayer and praise. After this solemn service, led in 1913 by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, they repair to the Mission Inn for an Easter breakfast. The view from the slopes of Roubidoux is unsurpassed, one is tempted to say, but that must be said of so many elevations in California that the adjective is dangerously overworked, yet this bi;t feebly expresses these thou- sands of acres of blossoming and fruited orange trees at our feet, spreading far away on either hand, beautiful homes in the foreground, flowers evei-ywhere, and beyond but brought near by the crystal- line atmosphere, the foothills, green or brown, and then the blue mountains with their snow-whitened summits. Magnolia and Victoria avenues are two famous and beautiful drives of Riverside. Sherman Institute, a government Indian school, is on Magnolia Avenue and in- cluded in the itinerary. Riverside is a city of about 18,000 pop- ulation, beautiful in itself as well as beau- tiful in situation. It has handsome streets, bordered by fine trees and lighted by artistic conci'ete electroliers; it has splen- did public schools, a handsome county court house, public library, Woman's Club House, Young Men's Christian Association building, twenty-five churches and no saloons. Charming homes in beautiful grounds are on every side. Riverside is 89 See page opposite for descriptive Itinerary AMERICAN TOURS (IN CALIFORNIA) Yosemite Valley Yellowstone Rainier National Park SOUTH AMERICA TOURS C. W, Winstanley, Mgr. of Tours "All Expense Paid" Plan Conducted Tours BY RAIL LOS ANGELES TO Santa Barbara Del Monte SantaCruzBlGTREES San Jose— San Francisco And other noted places on the California Coast Line Along the Road of a Thousand Wonders FIRST CLASS RAILWAY TICKETS ROUTED VIA SOUTHERN PACIFIC ARE GOOD ON THESE TOURS 171 \/17 PV A VC OF PLEASURABLE SIGHTSEEING r 1 V Ej UI\ I O in world famous puces FOI IR NinHT So WW KM H 98 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE outlines and rugged, wrinkled sides are plainly visible. A faint cloud wreaths the highest peak and a pearly drift is thf background against which they stand. Soon the semi-circular Bay of Avalon is well defined and, as the vessel draws nearer, the piers and background ot hotels and curio stores with houses climb- ing the hill behind. In a moment the steamer is surrounded by a fleet of small boats, their owners shouting through megaphones that theirs, be it motor-boat, or oar-propelled, offers the only means of seeing the submarine gardens successfully. A larger boat, equipped with a search- light, announces an evening trip to the playground of the flying fish, or a day- light trip to the seal rocks. A Hawaiian surf rider dashes past on his siirf board tied to a motor-boat. Sun-browned boys are begging for coins which they dive for when thrown into the water. Far down into the clear depths one can fol- low the shining silver dime before it is seized by the diver, who never misses it. Amidst this crowd of boats and boys accompanied by the shouting megaphones, the vessel draws up to the dock. Every- one is hungry for luncheon and as soon as that is over, those whose stay is brief hasten to the pier for a glass-bottomed boat. The Emperor, a large motor-boat with a glass bottom, is making ready to go out, with a load, but though this makes a longer trip, many prefer the small boats. The marine gardens are quickly reached and the wonders revealed through the clear water are never to be forgotten. The boatman tells you the popular names for these waving masses of marine foliage, as different from each other as the shrubbery in a garden of ^1^ T^, '%^A.^ Los Angeles Harbor (San Pedro) where the ships of the Orient and Occident find safe anchor Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, most famous fishing resort in the world, 27 miles from the mainland earth. There are ladies' feather boas, ribbon sea weed, sea tomatoes, sea heather, mermaids' hair or dulse, and iodine kelp like trees, bearing silver balls as fruit, waving gently to and fro as the oars stir the water. And in and out are darting gold perch and blue perch and electric perch, all colors of the rainbow and bril- liant like jewels. There are sea cucum- bers, too, and sea urchins. Here and there the water is phosphorescent. It is a fascinating vision. Returning to the town, the aquarium is to be visited, the curio stores and other interesting spots. The fishing at Catalina Island is famous. The leaping tuna, weighing from eighty to two hundred and fifty pounds is the hardest fighting game fish known, and is caught with rod and reel only in Catalina waters. Sword fish, also splendid fighters, are caught here, albicore and yellowtail, black and white sea bass and many other fish. Power launches, especially built and equipped for sea fishing, can always be secured at Avalon. Besides fishing the Catalina wild goat offers good sport for those who enjoy hunting. The mountain coach rides are another diversion and afford Avonderful views of the island and sea. Golf and tennis entertain many, and mountain climbing yields glorious views. Boating and bathing are other attractions. But all these things are for those who spend more than a few hours on the island. Another sea trip of two and a half hours and the steamer is rounding San Pedro breakwater again, 6 :45 and the Pacific Electric car enters Los Angeles. The price of the round trip is $2.75. The fai'e for the glass-bottomed boat is fifty cents. 99 The Burlington Apartments NINTH AND BURLINGTON^ In the Heart of the Westlake District Embracing Every Down-to-Date Feature for Making Home Life a Pleasure Phones in All Apartments. Service. Fine Car Phones: 10497; Wilshire 497. Managed by the Owner The Rooms are Large, Well Ventilated and Beautifully Furnished The Rates; Most Reasonable SINGLE APARTMENTS Are from $30 to $35 by the Month DOUBLE APARTMENTS Arc from $45 to $75 by the Month Special Weekly Rates o n Applicatio n Take Ninth Street Cars on Spring Street Immense Lobby, Ball Room, Porches and Roof Garden — Enjoyable Entertainments Are Provided by the Management, Including Dancing, Cards and Musicales — HOTEL CORDOVA ^'^gTer'S^ This beautiful specimen of modern Aztec architecture is the finest tour- ist hotel within •walking dis- tance, yet re- moved from confusion of busy thorough- fares. It is de- lightfully situ- ated within five minutes' walk of business and theatre dis- tricts. Ele- gantly furnish- ed, completely equipped, cafe excellent, lobby beautiful. Just the place for particular people who appreciate Hotel Service at moderate prices. Daily rates $1 .00 and $1.50. Private bath $1.50 and $2.00. Attractive weekly and monthly rates. 100 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE TRIANGLE TROLLEY TRIP— This is one of the Pacific Electric trips, an all- (hiy trip of one hundred miles for $1.00, with a two-hour stop at Long Beach and u short stop at Santa Ana. For thirty miles the route is along the ocean shore and it includes ten beach resorts. The last car leaves the Pacific Electric station at Sixth and Main streets at 9:30 a. m. Fi'om Los Angeles the way is southeast through large dairy farms and agricul- tural sections towards Santa Ana. To the north are the walnut groves of the district surrounding Whittier and the train passes by the Olinda oil district. Near Santa Ana are fields of sugar beets and several great beet sugar factories. Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County, a. charming city of 12,000 popula- tion. As in nearly all Southern Cali- fornia towns, the public school system is abreast of the population, with seven A street in Santa Ana, the ruling city of the vegetable and sugar beet kingdom adjacent to Los Angeles grammar schools, two high schools, Do- mestic Science and Manual Training School and plans proposed for a $200,000 polytechnic school. There are churches of all the leading denominations with fine church homes, club houses and lodge buildings, a handsome court house, a library building, and a progressive busi- ness section. There are several large sugar factories, a cannery, packing houses, planing mills and lumber yards, and various other industries. The ocean, only twelve miles away, tempers the climate, and extremes of heat or cold are un- known. All kinds of semi-tropical fruits are raised in the vicinity in great abun- dance; figs, grapes, olives, dates and guavas; and Orange County is famous for A near view of the celery industry of Orange County, near Los Angeles its Valencia and St. Michael oranges, to which it seems peculiarly adapted. Santa Ana is the commercial center of the greatest beet sugar industry in the world, and it leads all other towns in the shii^ments of English walnuts. After boarding the train again the way turns south and strikes the coast at Huntington Beach. Southeast of Huntington Beach are other beaches not included in the or- ganized trips, but easily reached, Newport Beach, Balboa and Laguna Beach are some of them. At Huntington Beach the route lies be- tween the ocean and a row of palm trees. Here are pi'etty summer houses and hand- some all-the-year homes, and Huntington Inn, a charming hotel. From here the way skirts the shore in a northwesterly direction, passing the club house and duck shooting preserves of the Bolsa Chico Gun Club, and through numerous beach re- sorts, Sunset Beach, Seal Beach, Alarai- tos Bay and Naples an^nig them. Naples Long Beach, city of the Silvery Strand, beautiful homes, marvelous growth and industry 101 jiji^a^^2^ik^ "ifc^ ^?_ ^ s^pl ^I^^^^H 1 1 ■ 1 w ' j^^^W n \iaaei Sher^vood Hotel AND APARTMENTS 431 SO. GRAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES One hundred and sixty (outside) rooms. Seventy- two apartments recently completed and handsomely furnished. Large porch, sun parlor, beautiful lobby, electric elevator, vacuum cleaner, private halls, dressing and bath rooms, disappearing beds on doors, with large mirrors m panel, kitchens, steam heat and cross ventilation in every apartment. Good service and reasonable prices. MILLS &., TALBOTT, Owners and Managers HOME 10469-MAIN 603 Stop at Sel\vyn Apartments 1521 SHATTO STREET Between 6lh and 7lh Streets Near Westlake Park Ten minutes from Broadway Take 6th or 7th Street Cars to Valencia or Union Streets Reasonable Rates IDA C. HANSEN, Manager When in LOS ANGELES It will be to your comfort and interest to come to the Hotel Westmoore SEVENTH at FRANCISCO The closest down-town family and tourist hotel in Los Angeles. Three blocks west of Robinson's New Department Store. Outside the city traffic, yet within a few minutes walking distance of the shopping and theatre district. Am<^rir«n nr Fiirnr>«=^fln Plan RATES BY THE WEEK OR MONTH. SPECIAL RATES FOR /AlUCIH^ailUi l-yUlUpCdll ridll family parties. TAXICAB fare refunded ^ s>e ^ CROW REALTY COMPANY, Owners HOTEL BALBOA, 1221 WEST SEVENTH ST., LOS ANGELES, CAL. TAKE WEST SEVENTH ST. CARS. FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY EUROPEAN HOTEL AND APARTMENTS, VERY Reasonable Rates 102 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE has a five-mile system of canals, whose banks are dotted with pretty homes, a modern hotel and two cafes noted for their Sunday dinners. The San Gabriel river flows into the ocean at Naples. The palm-bordered streets of Bay City look very attractive as the train passes on to Salboa Island and Newport Bay, where one may find ideal still and rough water boating, bathing and fishing Long Beach, where a tAvo hours' stop is made. Luncheon is the tirst considera- tion and there are many good cafes near at hand. A short way up the street is the beautiful Virginia Hotel, where food and service are of the best. This hotel has a superb location overlooking the ocean, and is entered by a palm-bordered approach. With ivied walls, terraced sunken gardens, a paved tennis court with the ocean rolling on its borders, it is a most attractive phiee. (See Notable Hotels.) Long Beach is a popular summer resort, but also a thriving city of permanent homes. The population is about 45,000. It has direct communication with Los Angeles by the Southern Pacific Railroad and San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, as well as by Pacific Elec- tric. Its industries are varied, including a ship building plant, a glass insulator factory, the Star Drilling Machinery Com- pany, large lumber yards and the Union Oil Refinery. There are twenty-seven churches, some with congregations of over a thousand and nearly all with handsome buildings. The fine school buildings in- clude a new $250,000 Polytechnic High School. There is a beautiful public li- brary building set in a pretty park and there are miles and miles of beautiful homes lining paved and shaded streets. Ocean Front Boulevard extends for five miles along the bluffs over the beach. The Beach Drive extends for ten miles along the bay shore. Five parks, besides the children's playgrounds, provide rec- reation for the permanent population, while the summer residents find delight in the beach, the Walk of Ten Thousand Lights, and the Pike, with its bath house and hundreds of amusement features. There is a $100,000 double decked amuse- ment pier running out into the sea eigh- teen hundred feet, at whose outer end is an immense glassed-in sun parlor; at the land end is a gi'eat auditorium, over- looking the Pike and beach, thronged with sight-seers and pleasui'e seekers. After leaving Long Beach the train passes through Wilmington and on to San Pedro ;ind Point Firmin. These are all described in alphabetical order in the body of this book. A considerable stop is made at San Pedro, giving time for a walk and lest in the pretty park which borders Point Firmin along the ocean cliff. Then the route turns north to Los Angeles, passing through Compton and other pretty, little towns to Watts, and from there on over the same route as in the morning. Los Angeles is reached about 6 p. m. For all the Pacific Electric trips, it is well to engage seats beforehand, though it is not usually strictly necessary. They may be engaged by telephoning to the infor- mation bureau in the Pacific Electric Building at Sixth and Main streets, or by applying in person. Besides these special Long Beach Sanitarium, the famous health resort of California organized trips, there are other interest- ing towns and localities to be visited in the vicinity of Los Angeles. It is pos- sible to see nearly the whole country in this vicinity with great ease by the Pacific Electric system. 103 "Where the Easterner Meets the Westerner" NEW SOUTHERN HOTEL SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 4TT Large, Airy j\ Rooms, Beauti- fully furnished, Per- fectly Ventilated; Equipped with every Modern Conveni- ence; Beautiful Lob- by and Ladies* Reception Parlor. fl Under the per- sonal supervision of the owner, the New Southern offers its guests the service and comfort of the highest-priced hotels at very popular rates. RATES $1.00 PER DAY UP MOST CENTRALLY LOCATED- s T X T H AND B STREETS Our Bi^ Free Auto Bus Meets Trains and Steamers J. M. ANDERSON, Owner and Manager THE CARNEGIE APARTMENTS SAN DIEGO'S ONLY APARTMENT HOTEL I'h^SSS '."ndTusS^sTrSI within one block of Ihe best cafes and cafeterias. THE CARNEGIE is fashioned after the larger eastern hostelries. giving unexcelled hotel service, and yet having for those who prefer, a cozy apartment with kitchenette, living, bed and bath room. (This combination is especially suited to people traveling with children), A beautifully situated sun parlor, from which a clear view of San Diego and Ihe bay, in connection with our billiard and music room, affords the best of entertainment for all. Elevator service. Phones free in every room. Steam heat (continuously). A beautiful lobby on first floor. Under same ownership as new Southern Hotel. 1J4 4 Sitii -^^ i "Ig""]!?*!,., PANAMA CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA The Exposition City in 1916 No one who visits Los Angeles should fail to go to San Dieg'o, and this for several im- portant reasons. First, because the trip is a delightful one whether by water or b}' rail, and if it is made by rail there are two of the most important and most interesting of the old missions to be vis- ited on the way. Second, to all Ameri- cans, and especially to Californians, San Diego should possess an absorbing interest, as it was here that California history began. Here Cabrillo, the first of the Spanish navigators, landed in 1542, Vis- eaino followed early in the next century and here in 1769 was planted the first of the Franciscan missions in Alta Cali- fornia, the first white man's settlement on our western coast. Third, San Diego is in itself a very attractive city, with its equable, sunny climate of moderate temperature; its handsome buildings and charming homes; its picturesque situation, rising gradually from the bay which it half encircles ; and with the many delight- ful excursions of which it is the base. And fourth, because it is the site of a unique two-year 'round exposition which did commemorate in 1915 the opening of the Panama Canal and calls the attention of the world to its own situation as the first American port of call. The beautiful buiklings of this exi)osition are located in Balboa Park, wliicli is in tlie heart of the city. For all these reasons the tourist can readily see that he cannot afford to over- look San Diego. From Los Angeles the Avater trip may be made by either of two lines. The steamers President and Gov- ernor of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com- lOE WTTmnfmr7m~i V l^jiiii. ""T^J^V-i iA=t;^^^.li.:, 1.- .,. , f J ^ ^r. 1 s ♦ L|fi^J l» , fc pi^ illinilJJJiiiiiL. ^.. ^^^W^^^ ■ - . -^" -^-^l— . ';^r:Simf^ — -— - i ■ SW' VARIETY ul- MIIPPING IN -THE HARBOR OF THE SUN"— SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELKS-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE pany leave Los Angeles harbor Wednes- day and Saturday mornings at 10:30, ar- riving in San Diego at 5 p. m. Return- ing they leave San Diego Wednesday and Saturday evenings at 11 o'clock, reach- ing San Pedro at 6 a. m. Thursday and Sunday mornings. The Los Angeles ticket oCfice of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company is at 540 South Spring Street. The San Diego oflice is at Third and D sti'cets. The steamers Harvard and Yale of the Pacific Navigation Company leave Los Angeles harbor for San Diego at 3 :30 [). m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, arriv- ing in San Diego at 8:30 p. m. Return- ing they leave San Diego from the Santa Fe wharf on Fridays and Sundays at 8 a. m., arriving in San Pedro at 1 p. m. The Los Angeles ticket office of this com- panv is at 611 South Spring Street, and the" San Diego office at 1200 D Street. The steamers of both these lines are handsome, commodious vessels and the short ocean trip is a delightful one for those who love the water. It affords a fine view of Los Angeles harbor, Dead Man's Island, of Terminal Island, where is the club house of the South Coast Yacht Club, of Point Firmin and then the steamer passes the great breakwater and is in the open sea. Entering San Diego harbor a few hours later the steamer glides between the breakwater and the long arm of Point Loma. It passes under the guns of Fort Rosecrans, rounds the aviation field of North Island (not really an island), passes the opening of Span- ish Bight, which so nearly cuts North Island from Coronado, and brings up at San Diego. The trip by rail takes about four hours, but at least one stop should be made en route, at San Juan Capistrano. The mis- sion being close by the station a stop- over between trains gives ample time to enjoy it. Unfortunately, there is no schedule by which both San Juan Capis- trano and San Luis Rey can be visited, and San Diego reached from Los Angeles, in the same day. San Luis Rey is about four miles from the station at Oceanside and there is not time between afternoon trains to take the drive, visit the mission and return, so, unless one wishes to stay overnight at Oceanside, it is better to visit one mission on the way to San Diego and the other on the way back. If the time can be spared, or if one is on pleas- ure l)ont, a stay overnight, or for a longer period, at the delightful Stratford Inn at Del Mar will repay one. From the train one has glimpses of this charm- ing hotel facing the sea. The Santa Fe coast line serves San Diego from Los Angeles. For the vai'ious trains it is best to consult a time table. A convenient train leaves Los Angeles at 9:10 a. m. Almost as soon as it emerges from the city orange blossoms perfume the air and the beautiful ever- C'reen trees with their golden fruit are seen on either hand. Then follow large fields of sugar beets, and alternating wal- nut and orange groves, with occasional homes, hedged in and embowered with roses. Distant mountain ranges limit the vision. The dry bed of the San Gabriel river is seen now and then. At Santa Ana a beautiful little park, filled with pansies and roses surrounds the station. Big alfalfa fields spread their vivid green over the levels, then the gray-green of olive orchards which give Avay to gently swelling hills, some green or golden with grain, or, perhaps, freshly reaped, all em- broidered with the delicate, feathery, golden mustard, in places man-high, re- calling Ramona making her way through the feathery fronds to meet Father Sal- videa coming from San Luis Rey. At eleven San Juan Capistrano is reached. From the train can be seen the high walls of the ancient church. It is but a step from the pretty modern sta- tion of mission design to the cloistered quadrangle and ruined nave of this splen- did church of long ago. Gazing on them the mind rushes back over the years to the golden days of this great establish- ment. The church was undoubtedly the finest of all the mission structures in Cali- fornia. The size, the material of which it was made, mainly stone and mortar, the carved pilasters, capitals, keystones and lintels, all attest its former magnifi- cence, while the large patio, the buildings Avhich enclose it and remains of other buildings are present-day witnesses to the size and importance of the establishment. The first founding of the mission, on Oc- tober 30, 1775, was interrupted by news of the destruction bj' Indians of the mis- sion at San Diego. A cross was erected to mark the spot where mass had, been celebrated under a rude shelter of boughs, the bells for the new mission were buried and priests and soldiers hastened to Sap 107 ELEVEN FLOORS o/^ SOLID COMFORT | igfgte Hotel St. James The House of Sunshine and Hospitality Ooened 1914. Built of Steel, Concrete and Marble. European Plan Cafe and Tea-Room in Connection Strictly modern. Every convenience. Efficient service both day and night. 1 50 Rooms. 1 00 with Private Bath Hotel St. James aflords all conveniences and comforts for its guests. Large lobby, mezzanine floor, ladies' parlor. Close to all stores, public buildings, theatres and other attractions. Rates $1.00 per Day up Room with Bath from $1.50 Magnificent view of ocean, bay and mountains from its spacious sun parlor. 6th St., between E and F Sts. San Diego Sight-seeing cars for all points of interest direct from hotel. FREE AUTO BUS meets all trains and steamers No raise of rates during Exposition, 1916 Hotel cAppleton San Francisco THE man or woman who travels occasionally — or any traveler — ^adds comfort and pleasure to the journey by selecting the cAppleton when visiting iSan Francisco. Situated at 240 O'Farrell Street between Powell and Mason, in the heart of down town San Francisco, it offers a headquarters from which is easily reached the theatre and shopping district. RATES: 1 person without bath - $1.00 up 1 person with bath - - $1.50 up 2 peisons without bath - 1.50 up 2 persons with bath - - 2.00 up Special monthly rates to permanent guests The cL/4.ppleton provides a cheerful, genial atmosphere not found in many hotels and a courteous, interested service from employees which every traveler is quick to appreciate. Large sjjacious lobby with dancing floor and private parlor for ladies. Make all reservations direct, — .simply drop us a card stating hour of arrival and reservation desired — -everything will be in readiness upon your arrival. Cafe in Connection Hotel c/4.ppleton San Francisco L. B. FAUGHT, Proprietor 108 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE Diego. Returning the following year a successful search was made for the cross and the mission was founded a second lime on November 1, 177(5, the seventh mission in order of establishment. The spot was about six miles from the pres- ent mission, in the Mission Vieja Canyon, wiiere may still be seen the ruins of a large adobe building. Tlie oldest build- ing of the present establishment is the long one known as Father Serra's clmreh, forming the east side of the quad- rangle. It Avas built during his lifetime, and used up to the completion of the big church in 1806, also after the de- struction of the great church, until 1890, when the former living rooms of the two fathers in charge were made over into the present chapel. The patio or quad- rangle was the out-door woi-k shop of the Indians, where many of their trades were carried on. Hats, candles, shoes, blankets and other articles were made in rooms located in the northwest corner. In the northeast corner and along the north side of the patio were the store houses. The kitchen of the padres was in the building along the south, and just to the east of the kitchen was the pantry, or dispensa, wherein may be seen today the ancient tule and raAvhide ceiling, the old gallery and original hand-hewn shelves. The walls of the great church are from tAvo to seven feet in thickness. They are built of boulders, adobe and brick. Lin- tels, keystones, capitals and cornices are made of sandstone carved by the Indian neophytes, and carried by them from the quarry six miles aAvay. The roof and paving tiles were burned in kilns whose remains may be seen on the liillside ncrth of the mission. Logs for beams and rafters were brought, some from the can- yon of the Trabuco (a near-by stream) and others from a mountainside twenty miles away. The church was nine yeai's in building. It had a great terraced tower in front, so lofty that it was visi- ble ten miles away, and the roof was formed of seven domes, one over the chancel, three over the transept and three covering the nave. It was occupied only six years, and destroyed in 1812 by an earthquake which occuri'ed during mass. Forty people perished in the ruins. T\\r great tower fell outward across the Plaza. The domes of the nave fell. Those of the transept were afterward blown up by gunpowder to make way for a wooden roof over the whole, but a heavy rain destroyed some of the recently rebuilt walls and the work was abandoned. Now, nave and transept are ojDen to the sky, the altar is covered by the one remaining dome. Nine niches are back of the altar; the statues which once occupied them are in the present chapel. The blue-green color, ornamenting the dome and arches, groin and keystone, is still unfaded, but grasses and weeds have sprung up be- tween the square burnt tiles of the pave- ment, and the carved cornices and mould- ing of the arches have received an un- designed ornamentation in the regular rows of mud swallows' nests which bor- der them. The swallows are darting about and linnets are filling the air with song. Stepjiing through the doorway (the walls of which are six feet thick) and looking to the southeast the range of color would I'lK.M I'Kl'PEK TREE PLAN! 1. 1) IN CALIFORNIA AND RUINS OF SAX LUIS REY MISSION, NEAR OCEANSIDE 109 The Hotel with a Personality Hotel Sandf ord SAN DIEGO FIFTH AND A STREETS, ONE BLOCK FROM BUSINESS CENTER On Main Car Line to the Exposition 150— ROOMS— 150 Beautiful Outside Sunny Rooms, Connecting With Bath Good Cafe F. S. SANDFORD Managing Director Rates Detached Bath $1.00 to $2.50 Private Bath $1.50 to $3.00 GROUND FLOOR— MUSIC ROOM— RECEPTION ROOM— LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S WRITING ROOM— PRIVATE TELEPHONES— UNEXCELLED SERVICE— STEAM HEAT- DAY AND NIGHT ELEVATOR Under the personal management of F. S. Sandford, formerly manager of the Majestic Hotel New York City, and the world-famous Grand Hotel, Yokahama, Japan. NATATORIUM, BIMINI HOT SPRINGS BIMINI HOT SPRINGS Twenty minutes from business center of Los Angeles. L. A. Electric (yellow) cars from all depots. The only natural hot mineral baths in the city. Visitors welcoqie. See the great swimming pools, private tub rooms, treatment section, bottling and shipping works, etc. Hotel in connection, where patients are cared for. Tourists who have not visited Bimini Hot Springs have not seen Los Angeles. Write for literature. Address BIMINI HOT SPRINGS Los Angeles, California no LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE -yi — —T! ~^ _-. '..,ji,:-..r^^tfftui.- i>-j^£j ^•■^. ... u •-■-«gfVSr-iagB5Sflj-''<.--j^ "iSSSn* ! > if>' ::rr-^:« i^'ik BEACH AT OCEANSIDE delight an artist's soul. Distant purple hills with velvet shadows are outlined against the flawless blue of a California sky. Green trees are waving in the mid- dle distance and foreground, with paler green or yellowing grain fields between. Tawny grasses cover the old Plaza del Pueblo before the church and over a white dooryard fence nearby blaze two bushes of crimson roses. Violet, blue, green, yellow and red — the palette was set with colors from the rainbow. Between the great church and the pres- ent chapel a pierced wall holds the bells which once sAvung high in the tall tower. There are four, all bearing interesting inscriptions, two dated 1796 and two 1804. As the mission is older than the earliest of these dates, evidently these are not the original bells, which were either not found after being buried, or were recast when these bells were made. An inter- esting and artistic booklet prepared by the priest in charge. Father St. John O 'Sullivan, relates some old traditions of the bells of Capistrano and gives much valuable information about the establish- ment. It can be purchased at the mis- sion, and, with it in hand, the patio and corridors are filled with the life of other days. The arches along the east wall are intact and the pavement of large square tile is unbroken, though worn by many feet in years gone by. Across the south side the arches extend three-quarters of the way and about two-thirds of the way across the north side. Standing near the north end of the eastern corridor, the picture seen across the patio is unfor- getable. On the south side the tiled roof is lifted in the center a half story higher than the rest and is topped by the pic- turesque chimney of the ancient kitchen. The coloring of the tiles is marvelous, running through dull reds and purplish tints into exquisite mossy greens. Cool, alluring shadows lurk in the depths of the cloistered walk, the brownish-white pillars and arches are wreathed and hung with ivy, and one splendid crimson climb- ing rose lights up the low tones of the background. Fortunate California to be dowered with such an inheritance ! A place so satisfying to the eye and to the imagination, one is loth to leave. Three o'clock and the next train for San Diego come all too soon. Regretfully, one sees the mission walls pass out of sight, but immediately there is a new interest. The train passes between hills to the ocean shore and in a very few minutes it is skirting the beach, the surf rolling far up the sands at the right; high clitfs rising on the left. Looking back up the beach as we turn to the shore from be- tween the hills we catch a glimpse of the high cliff described by Dana in his "Two Years Before the Mast," over which hides were thrown onto the narrow beach be- low and from there taken in small boats to the ships. Once it was called El Em- barcadero Vieja, but it is now known as Dana's Point. For miles the track hugs the shore. When it takes a course fur- ther back, deep gullies and draws lead down to the ocean and give glimpses of the dancing waves or rolling surf. When the track rises high enough for a 111 ^*, 1 1^ 2o , IJ S^ u^ o i S H c ^ ? 8 c IT; ^ 'Z ■C CI n P. S ? ° n « J3Q § S'S « c C « U « a !)>« — (/) PL, ui O g j= « CO ^ *- o o " C to'*' cJ2 u o tn 4^ «J CO " m t: ILI (D o JC»L KJi- AVIATIO.N, iS'OKlil ISLAND 114 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE Su^ iS. .i.i.1 mi:J\M' 1 Kit i-J ,'BL I J \V\.i ^. -i^ .:iJ i LA JOLLA BEACH and we have reached San Diego, whose beginning was the first mission planted by the Franciscans in Alta California in 1769. Blessed by the good Father Serra, watered by the blood of martyrs, ex- panded in later yeai's by far-seeing men, it now embraces the beautiful bay which is its harbor and is the first American port to be reached by ships coming thi'ough the canal, whose completion she is now making ready to celebrate. San Diego is a place of first things. Walter Colton in his diary says: "Here the first cattle in California were corralled, the first sheep sheared, the first field furrowed, the first vineyard planted, the first church bell rung," and John S. McGroarty in his "California" adds: "Here Avere reared the first cross, the first church, the first town. Here, too, was the first cultivated field, the first palm, and the first vine and olive to blossom into fruitage from the life-giving waters of the first irrigating ditch." San Diego began at Oldtown, in the northern part of the present city. Here the cross was planted by Father Serra in 1769, and here on the hill above the Presidio was built. A little later the site of the church was changed to the spot six miles up the San Diego river, where the ruins of the mission now stand over- looking the valley. The little Spanish settlement down near the shores of False Bay grew slowly. In 1867 Alonzo Horton came to San Diego with his savings earned in a little furniture shop in San Francisco. It was only a few hundred dollars that he had, but he foresaw future for the harbor and a city upon its shores. He invested his all in land at twenty-six cents an acre, and became owner of nearly all the territory on which modern San Diego is built. He sold some of his land and divided other acres into lots, which brought him $100 a piece. He lived to see his foresight justified, and he is often called the Father of San Diego. Some of his $100 lots are now worth half a mil- lion, but between those days and this San Diego has met with vicissitudes, all of which she has triumphed over. A later foster father is John D. Spreckels, who has invested millions here. Now, with the San Diego and Arizona railway as- sured, giving direct eastern connection 115 LAS NECAS GRADE IHIi^l lAili!L_.UI\i fi Ii. ."■} MOUNTAIN SPRINGS ROAD, SAN DIEGO COUNTY LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE ■with the Southern Pacific Rnilway at Yuma, and sliortening the distance l)e- tween all eastern points and San Diecfo nearly one hundred miles, her only handi- cap, lack of sufficient transportation facil- ities by rail, is removed. The line will be completed long before the exposition year rolls around. San Diego has a prolific back country, I'ugged but, when blessed with water, won- derfully fertile, and she needs the best of water and rail transportation to mar- ket the products. The city is connected through Los Angeles with the east anc' north by the Santa Fe Railroad system. There are eight daily trains to Los An- geles and two to San Francisco. The San Diego Southei'n Railway is a steam route to Sweetwater Dam and Tia Juana, with a station at the foot of Sixth Street. The San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern Rail- way Company operates both steam and gasoline motor trains through El Cajon Valley. Station at the foot of Tenth Street. La Jolla Railway Company ope- rates gasoline motor cars from the ticket office at Fourth and C streets for Pacific Beach and La Jolla. The Pacific Naviga- tion Company, the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Company, and the North Pacific Steamship Company make San Diego their southern terminus. The Ensenada Trans- portation Company operates a steamer for freight and passengers between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico, and the "Manuel Herrerias" of the Compania Naviera del Pacifico plies between San Diego and Mazatlan, stopping at several Mexican ports between. As transportation facili- ties increased the city grew. In 1900 the population was 17,000; in 1905, 22,500. By the Federal census of 1900 it was 39,700, and it is now estimated at 90,000. The city contains seventy miles of street railways and thirty-three miles of paved streets, with fifty miles of automobile boulevards. It maintains four daily papers, has a public library of 55,000 volumes housed in a pretty Carnegie Library build- ing, and twenty-four public schools, in- cluding an especially handsome new high school in Norman style carried out in gray stone, and a very fine State Noi-mal School, with buildings costing $315,000. It has many and handsome churches of all denominations, one with a beautiful chime of bells. Business buildings are notice- ably of substantial excellence. None is of towering height, which fact, in conjunc- tion with the width of the streets, lends (o the city an open, airy, cheerful aspect, unusual in cities of similar size. The shops are excellent, modern in appoint- ments and with stocks of the best. Some of the jewelry stores make a specialty of native gems mined in San Diego County, lourraaline, liyacinth, beryl, kunzite and others. One of the famous hotels of Southern California, the U. S. Grant, cost- ing $2,000,000, splendid in building and appointments, is in the heart of the city, and a short distance down the street is the handsome Hotel San Diego. Besides these there are at least thirty other hotels and new ones are being added, looking forward not only to the exposition, but to San Diego 's advantages as a convention city. Only a half hour away, by ferry or automobile is the delightful Coronado Hotel, combining all the pleasures of a coast resort with inland out-of-door sports and metropolitan advantages. Military and naval departments of the United States Government add interest to the town. Fort Rosecrans, a United States fort, guards the entrance to the harboi*. A torpedo boat and submarine station, and the most powsrful naval wireless tele- graph station on the Pacific Coast, are maintained at San Diego. On North Island are army aviation training grounds, which have the advantage over eastern grounds of being available all through the year. Besides these there are other de- partments of the United States Govern- ment here, quarantine, coaling, customs and immigration stations, and branches of the internal revenue and forestry service. The Spreckels Theater, the finest thea- ter on the Pacific Coast, is of reinforced concrete, fireproof construction ;ind splen*- didly equipped in every way. The build- ing occupies an entire block and has a seating capacity of over two thousand. Other theaters are the Isis, owned by the Theosophical Society; the Savoy, the Mir- ror, the Empress (vaudeville), the Grand (stock company), and a scoi-e of moving picture houses. In park lands, San Diego is especially rich, much of them, unimproved as yet, but keeping pace with the city's growth in improvement. In the center of the business district, just before the U. S. Grant Hotel, is the pretty little Plaza, full of palms and other trees, with a foun- 117 ^xmJ^ .fi j.'ii.. IJLJsMllim SAILING ON SAN DIEGO BAY "WONDERLAND", OCEAN BEACH LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE tain in the center sending cooling streams into the air by day and gk)\ving in rain- bow colors with wonderful electric effects at night. At the end of the Pavilion car line is Mission Cliff Park, beautifully cul- tivated, brilliant with flowers, and with additional attractions of shady walks, comfortable seats, a fountain playing over a pool of water lilies, a refreshment house, and beyond all else affording along its northern border one of the most rarely beautiful views of which any city can boast. High from the valley bed of the San Diego river rise the cliffs, along which the park lies. On the opposite side of and, with water and the climate of San Diego, capable of producing wonderful results in luxuriant growth of trees and flowers. Here was brouglit to reality the plans for the exposition of 1915-1916. Most of the exposition work in the park will be permanent and will add greatly to its beauty. A handsome, arched bridge spans Cabrillo Canyon, with an ornamental es- planade leading to it. Across Spanish Canyon a dam is built, which will form of the canyon a beautiful lagoon with many branches. Flowers, shrubs and trees are being i^ropagated in enormous quanti- ties for the adornment of the grounds, and RESIDENCE OF JOHN D. SPRECKELS AT SAN DIEGO the wide floor of the valley rise other cliffs and hills, both lines probably mark- ing what were the banks of a once giant river, now diminished to a small stream flowing down to the sea through the fields below. From hillside to hillside the plain stretches, level as a floor, checkered in different colors by green alfalfa and golden grain. Down the stream is the ocean, into which the sun sinks in splen- dor, flooding the valley with golden light. Up the stream on a hill stand the ruins of the mission, looking down the whole length of the valley to the sea. Balboa Park is a rich dower for any city, of whatever magnitude — 1,460 acres in the heart of the town, high ground from which the views over the harbor are superb, cut by picturesque canyons and gullies of whose landscape possibilities ad- vantage is taken in developing the park, already plantations of thousands of rare trees have been made. The buildings are all designed on Spanish-American lines, with suggestions of the missions, and are peculiarly adapted to their environment. The harbor of San Diego ranks as third in importance on the Pacific Coast. It has the requisite depth and area, a chan- nel through which vessels of the deepest draught can sail with ease, and is thor- oughly protected from all ocean storms. Point Loma reaches down a long curv- ing arm from the north, sheltering the bay on the north and northwest, while from the southern shore the Silver Strand, a narrow, sandy strip, reaches up until it expands into Coronado and North Island, effectually protecting the bay on the west. The bay has a total area of twenty-two square miles. When impi'ovements which are begun have been completed, San Diego 119 "'^' "T ' f i " R!! "ti:'*"'- li^^^l^a^':*** - ".^'l^a liHi! ins STATE NORMAL, POLYTECHNIC, HIGH AND I'LOKENCE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS, SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE will have 22,000 feet of sea wall and eleven miles of docks, which will be ade- quate for a city of a million population. In addition, the sea wall will reclaim over fourteen hundred acres of land suit- able for warehouses and factories. Rut It is not only for naval and commercial purposes that the bay of San Diego is so valuable. For yachting and motor boat- ing it is unrivaled at all seasons of the year. There are thi'ee yacht clubs in and near San Diego with many members, and motor boating is becoming more and more popular. Those interested in both sports are coming from less favorable climatCM to the place where they can enjoy their fill the year around. It is San Diego's situation and climate that are her greatest assets, both God- given, her fortunate dowry. The city has expanded until it stretches from the north- ern to the southern extremity of the bay, rising gradually from the water level to the high land of Balboa Park. The beau- tiful bay is always in the foreground, the vision widening with evei'y foot of rise, until the distant mountains and misty islands in the ocean are included in the scene. The climate of San Diego is remarkable for its evenness, there being no extreme cold and few hot days. Nights are always cool. There is very little fog. There is sunshine 356 days out of the 365. Rainfall averages only ten inches. All out-of-door sports can be enjoyed almost every day in the year. Situation and climate add to the at- tractiveness of the homes of San Diego. Of pleasing architectural design, and some of them very beautiful, they stand un- crowded and surrounded by almost tropical verdure. Palms, magnolias and India rub- ber trees are in almost every dooryard, fuchsias, heliotrope and geraniums climb over the windows, orange and lemon trees perfume the air, and roses of every color abound. No place of the size of San Diego is the base for so many interesting and such diversified trips, by automobile, by boat, by steam car and electric, and gasoline motor. A "Seeing San Diego" trip by automobile affords an excellent general view of the city, of its business streets, public build- ings, churches, schools and beautiful homes, of Balboa Park and the Exposition site, of Golden Hill Park, the already improved part of Balboa with a stop at Lookout Point where there is a splendid outlook over the bay, Coronado, Point Loma to the mountains of Mexico and the islands of the sea. The different lines of the street railway system also enable one to see the city and its various points of interest by trolley. The Point Loma trip by sight-seeing automobile gives an afternoon of pleasure and is one of the most picturesque rides of Southern California. Every foot of the delightfully smooth road offers something of interest. First Loma Portal, a beautiful new residence section of San Diego at the base of the point, and near by the spacious eighteen-hole golf links and handsome club house. A little further and the automobile passes under the high Roman arch which forms the entrance to the grounds of the International Theosophical headquarters. These headquarters were established here by Madame Katherine Tingley in 1900. Since that time she has made the wilderness to blossom as the rose. Sand and sage-brush have given way to lawns and flowers. The views are superb from almost every point in the grounds. They embrace the blue bay, the sparkling Pacific, the distant mountains, the faint, ethereal islands on the horizon, as well as the charm of color, luxuriant vegetation and handsome build- ings in the foreground. The Raja Yoga College and Aryan Memorial Temple are striking edifices with the domes and arches of the architecture of India. In another part of the grounds a Greek temple out- lined against the blue ocean makes an exquisite picture. Facing the temple is a Greek amphitheater built in a natural hollow. There are many other buildings connected with the establishment. There are about 200 pupils in the Raja Yoga College, and a good many small children are cared for and educated. The Loma- land Forestry Department of the college has received high praise from the United States Forestry Department. Connected with it is an extensive nursery from which over 25,000 trees grown from seed have been planted during the past six years. There is also a weather station and bureau equipped with fine instruments, from which daily reports are sent to the United States Weather Bureau at Washington. An im- portant department of the Theosophical headquarters is the Aryan Theosophical Press, where the literature of the society is published and whence it is distributed throughout the world. The publications include four monthly periodicals. 121 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE SUNSET, POINT LOMA CAVE, OCEAN BEACH After visiting this world-famous insti- tution the automobile continues southward along Point Loma Boulevard through the government reservation. The road over- looks Tort Rosecrans on the bay side of the point and the big guns which form the de- fense of the harbor are easily seen. The bi-eakwater and entrance to the harbor are just under our feet and farther away Coro- nado beach and hotel are visible. A stop is made at the Bennington monument, a tall shaft commemorating the men who perished in the explosion on the Benning- ton a few years ago. At the extreme end of the point is the so-called Spanish light- house, a quaint old building looking the part of its reputation, but really built after Spanish dominion had passed away from the land. At the very end of the point, over the hill on the ocean side is the modern Government lighthouse, throwing its pierc- ing, intermittent beam many miles out to sea. The lighthouse is ninety feet high. standing on a thirty-foot base. It is a sheer fall of 200 feet from the end of the point down to the water. Coronado islands can be seen twenty miles away in the offing. Paralleling the end of the point is the breakwater two miles long which, with Point Loma, forms the channel leading into San Diego Bay from the ocean. A whist- ling buoy marks the end of the channel. Far away is the Silver Strand which con- nects Coronado with the mainland at the south. When a road, which is planned, is built from Coronado to North Island across Spanish Bight which nearly separates them, the beach and drive will be fifteen miles long. Of course everyone who goes to San Diego must make the trip to Tia Juana and step over the boundary line into old Mexico. Sight-seeing cars leave at 9:00 a. m. and 2:00 p. m., but not always daily, so it is best to consult someone connected with the sight-seeing automobiles in plan- 122 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE iiing- the trip. A conductor is nstially found near the U. S. Grant Hotel, or in- quiry can be made at the information bureau in the hotel or at Dodge's Informa- tion Bureau in the Savoy Building on Third and C streets. The route leads through the southern part of San Diego, between orange, lemon and olive groves, through the towns of National City and Chula Vista, along Palm Avenue through Nestor to the custom liouse standing on the borders of old Mexico. The road is lined nearly all the way by eucalyptus, palms, Monterey cypresses and pepper trees. After crossing the boundary it is but a short drive to Tia Juana, a small Mexican town, half quaint and foreign, half ugly and commercial. A queer little play-fort is at the entrance of the town and soldiers in soiled white uni- forms are busy making adobe bricks and laying them out to dry, or repairing what Irving Cobl) calls the ''knee-works" of the fort, in the center of the adobe enclosure is a small wooden house with little pill-box turrets at two corners. Tlie road turns at the corner into the main street which con- sists of a dozen stores (mostly curio stores) and restaurants. Tia Juana means Aunt Jane. One wonders why the name was bestowed. Everyone flocks to the curio stores and l)uys drawn work, carved leather or pottery, not more than a dol- lar's worth, for that is all that can be taken in duty free. It requires consider- able skill to consume an hour in spending one dollar, and any spare time is passed in buying postal cards, addressing and mailing them on foreign soil, or in lunching on real Mexican tamales and enchiladas. On the way back everything must be declared at the custom house and packages are examined. From Palm Ave- nue the automobile turns to the Silver ONE TON OF FISH— ONE DAY'S SPORT AT CORONADO BEACH 123 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE SCENES AT WARNER'S SPRINGS Strand leading to Coronado and foi' eight miles the drive is along this narrow cause- way, in some places not over one hundred feet wide with the surf of the ocean washing it on one side and the bay on the other. The road passes through the tent city of Coronado, through the grounds of the beautiful Coronado Hotel, and gives a glimpse of the pretty town on the way to the ferry boat which plies between San Diego and Coronado. This trip consumes a half day; but there is a longer "Special" trip wliich includes Imperial Beach, gives two hours in Mexico and a half hour at Coronado, taking a day in all. Particu- lars about this trip can be had at Dodge's Information Bureau, Third and C streets. Neither one of these trips gives enough time to enjoy Coronado to the full, but it is a simple matter to make a supple- mentary independent trip by electric car and ferry to Coronado. The court of the hotel, not visible from the outside, is ons of its most charming features, all bright as it is Avitli flowers and sunshine, and shaded with trees and vines, with birds singing and the sound of the sui-f wash- ing the beach on which the hotel stands. Coronado offers all sorts of temptations to those who love out-door life. Polo, golf, tennis, fishing, bathing, walking, riding and driving, each has its devotees. The unique Japanese tea-garden of George T. Marsh should not be overlooked. Following the path indicated by sign posts a gate is found in the JajDanese wall which surrounds the place. On sounding a gong at the gate a pretty little Japanese maiden appears and leads you into the garden, after you have paid the small entrance fee which includes tea and wafers. You may wander at will in the garden and when you are tired and rest yourself in one of the pretty tea houses, the little maiden will lay down her embroidery and bring tea. Afterwards, if you wish to look at beautiful Japanese goods which are for sale you may go up to the Japanese house 124 LOS AN(iKl.KS-SAN DIKnO STANDARD aiJTDE which stands on a small hill and some one will show 30U tlie articles. If you do not care to do this nothins: is obtruded upon you. The trip to Tia Juana is often made by way of SweetAvater Dam, on the San Diego Southern Railroad, and some con- sider this tlie most intorestins^ way to go. Old Town is the center of the historic interest of San Diego, or, perhaps divides that honor Avith the old mission. It is somewhat confusing to the stranger to hear of mission relics at both spots and to leai'n how far apart they are. Old Town was the place Avhere the padres halted on their northward march fi'om LoAver California, set up their ci'oss and dedicated their mission. On the hill above, the Presidio Avas built and the soldiers established there. A little later Father Serra deemed it Avise to remove the mis- sion farther from the Presidio (a policy which he carried out at later missions also) and he chose the site six miles up the valley of the San Diego river, Avhere tlio ruins of the mission buildings now stand. At Old ToAvn the ruins of the Presidio may be seen, the old palms which Avere the first planted in California, the old graveyard, the first brick house in California, the monument Avhich marks the spot where General Fremont raised the American flag in 1846, old Fort Stockton, mission relics and an old mission bell in the present church, which Avas built for a home by George Lyon in 1854 and later, after degenerating into a saloon and bil- liard hall, became a church; the fine old adobe tile-roofed home of the Estudillo family, which is knoAvn as Ramona's Mar- riage Place, and across the road from that the old home of Don Juan Bandini, fa- miliar to readers of Dana's ''Tavo Years Before the Mast" and Alfred Robinson's ''Life in California." The Bandini home is sadly changed by the addition of a frame second story. The Estudillo house needs no connection with Ramona's name to add to its interest. In its restored MME. SCHUMANN-HEINKE AT HER HOME ON GROSSMONT, OVERLOOKING EL CAJON VALLEY 12o LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE state it presents a charming picture of one of the better class of homes during the days of the Spanish regime. Every foot of it is full of interest. Geoi'ge Wharton James speaks of the place where "the fictitious marriage of the fictitious Ramona to the fictitious hero took place, ' ' and the chapel of this home may well have been the place Mrs. Jackson had in mind when she wrote her romance, but the marriage is no historic fact. The house is built around three sides of a patio, which contains a fountain and "wishing Avell," flowers and vines wreathing the verandas and hanging in festoons from the roof. The patio opens on the fourth side into a beautiful garden. The house is of adobe, with tiled roof and the veran- da floors around the three sides of the patio have been re-paved with squai-e burned tiles brought from an old aqueduct built by the padres in 1770 Avhich brought water from a dam across the San Diego river. The house was built in 1825. The kitchen at the farthest end of one side of the patio contains old copper cooking utensils brought from Spain, and old pottery dishes. A tule shelf for milk and cheese hangs on the side of the room farthest from the fireplace. The floor is tiled and worn into hollows by years of use. It is a cool, comfortable room and does not compare unfavorably with the average kitchen of today. In the patio is a stone filter over a hundred years old, and still in use. Across the court or patio is the dining room. The Indian sei-vants were kept on the kitchen side of the house; on the opposite side were the family living rooms. The doors of the house are hand-hewn and the rafters are tied with thongs. The house has been con- verted into a sort of a museum and con- tains many interesting things, among them a Mexican Carreta 200 years old, and a stage-coach sixty-five years old which used to run to Fort Yuma. Its original cost was $1,600. In one room is considerable furniture which once belonged to Alonzo Horton, the "Father of San Diego." In another room is a collection of mission paintings and there are hourly lectures on the missions. Indian blankets, baskets, curios, photographs, etc., are for sale in one of the rooms. KAMUNA'S AIAKKIAGE PLACE Reached by San Diego Electric Railway Company 126 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE It is a beautiful drive from San Dieg'o to the Old Mission. The sight-seeing' auto- mobiles make the trip frequently but not daily, so it is best to make previous arrangements. The route is generally to go by the valley and return along the high ground and through Balboa Park or vice versa. The father in cliarge will show^ the buildings to visitors. There is a modern chapel which contains many things taken from the old church, of which now only the fachada and a few walls remain. The tower is gone, but one bell hangs from a beam. This was recast from four small bells which were broken when the tower fell during an earthquake. The bell is of beautiful tone. There were originally seven bells. Two now hang before the church in Old Town and one in a Catholic church in San Diego. Many fragments of adobe walls indicate how large the original enclosure must have been, about thirty acres. Parts of a cactus hedge also re- main. The first olive orchard of California is here, 140 years old and still bearing. There are several towering palm trees about the same age as the old palms of Old Town. It was in 1774 that Padre Junipero moved the mission from Old Town to this spot. In 1775 there was an up- rising among the Indians and Father Jayme was murdered. The mission build- ings were destroyed by fire and other means. They were soon rebuilt and dedi- cated in 1777, but not entirely completed until 1784. In 1804 a new church was built which gave place in 1813 to the structure whose ruins we view with in- terest today. The main building was about ninety feet long. The walls are four feet thick. The building was mainly of adobe, but the doorway and window casings were made of burnt tile. The church stands on an eminence commanding a fine view down the beautiful mission valley to the sea. Perhaps the most in- teresting of all the things to be seen is the well in the orchard across the road below the mission and the underground passage which leads to it from the church. The door opening into the well from the passage can be seen. The church end is closed. The fathers seemed to be in more danger in San Diego than elsewhere from Indian outbreaks and the passage was probably made so that they might have access to water if tliey should be besieged in the church buildings. Old Town is reached by train or by trolley cars marked Ramona's Home. After a half-day in Old Town one can go on to La Jolla, a pretty town with bril- liant borders of flowers along its walks and famous for its wonderful cliffs and caves and wave-worn arclios along the ocean shore. There is good bathing here and the place is both a summer resort and the site of many beautiful all-the-year- 'round homes. There is a good hotel, and a fascinating arts and crafts shop, an aquarium, and not far away a biological station of the University of California. La Jolla is also the home of the rare Torrey pine. The bungalows down near the beach are not numbered but each bears its name on a little sign, "The Breakers," "The Cozy," "The Nest," "Honeybug, " "The Green Dragon," etc. Pacific Beach and Ocean Beach are both pleasant places to visit. Both can boast fine beaches, bordering the Pacific. There are Bay Excursions which visit Fort Rose- crans and other interesting spots by water, giving one a fine view of the bay. There are also excursions to Coronado Island, a delightful trip for those who love the ocean. Wliat are called "Back Country Trips" leave the office of Dodge 's Information Bureau (Third and C streets) daily for Grossmont, El Cajon Valley, La Mesa and other interesting places. Grossmont is 1,200 feet above the sea and offers a magnificent panorama of ocean, mountain and valley scenery. To the north snow- capped San Antonio is seen and nearer at hand San Jacinto and the Palomar mountains, to the south the table moun- tains of Old Mexico, to the east the timber- covered Cuyamaca range and to the west the city, the bay, the ocean and the islands on the horizon. The above by no means exhaust the intei'esting excursions which can be taken from San Diego, but offer a few sugges- tions for trips which will well repay the traveler. IN 1909 THE POPULATION OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, WAS 30,000. IN 1913 IT WAS 90,000, AN INCREASE OF 200 PER CENT. IN FOUR YEARS. SAN DIEGO IS THE MARVEL OF THE WORLD. 127 Stratford Inn at Del Mar The Stratford Inn occupies a situation or remarkaDle grandeur — it is a notel m a garden, on a DeautiTully ^vooded nilL com- manding superb view^s or ocean, mountains and valleys The Best Place for Rest or Recreation SURF AND INDOOR BATHING! .^ DEEP-SEA. SURF, PIER FISHING! HUNTING! GOLFING! MOTORING! TENNIS AND OTHER DIVERSIONS UNEQUALLED SITES FOR SUMMER AND WINTER HOMES Forty Minutes to San Diego and tne 1916 Fair Santa Fe by Train (Del Mar, San Diego County) Coast Road by Motor Stopover privileges on all transportation lines 128 Notable Hotels ^ California Offering To Their Guests Widely Varying Attractions, Each Presenting Some Special Charm of Its Own Southern California offers an unusual number of delightful hotels for the choice of the hotel seeker, and most of them have a distinction which renders a stay within their hospitable Avails, be it for a season or only for a single meal, a pleasure long to be treasured in memory. Situated in widely different localities, they offer widely varying attractions, each presenting some special charm of its own. They climb the hill slopes, rest on the mountain tops, nestle in the valleys, dip their feet in the ocean, or border city pavements. They offer to their guests wide sweep of vision, golf, tennis and polo, the coun- try for walking and driving, the ocean for boating, bathing and fishing, the moun- tain side for hunting, the old missions and landmarks of the early days for ex- ploration, or the city for urban pleasures. At each hotel one or more of these at- tractions awaits the traveler, while com- mon to all of them is pure, balmy air, the beauty and odor of flowers, charming rooms, careful service and a cuisine suited to the most fastidious. The large hotels of Los Angeles and San Diego are the peers of metropolitan hotels anywhere. Beginning with Los An- geles, the Hotel Alexandria is conve- nientlv located on Fifth Street, between BroadAvay and Hill. A spacious lobby with columns and wainscot of colored marbles forms an inviting entrance and luxurious lounging room. The Franco- Italian dining salon and the tea room, adorned with Pan playing his pipes at the fountain among the flowers, are most attractive. On the mezzanine floor is a gallery with writing tables, a library, ladies' parlor and ballroom with pale gray brocaded satin walls. The hotel con- tains seven hundred rooms and suites, thirty with pianos and a number with private dining-rooms. In the basement is the mission Indian grill with the unique decorations its name implies. The Hotel Lankershim at Broadway and Seventh Street, and tlie Van Nuys at Fourth and Main streets are dignified hotels of a type similar to the Alexandria. They are all well located for business, shopping or sight- seeing, and furnish every comfort, conve- ience and luxury demanded by the traveling public. Simplicity is the keynote of the furnishing of the Van Nuys, the pleasing sim])licity which it takes an artist to effect. The pretty Peacock lounging room on the second floor is attractive to those who prefer its quiet aloofness to the bustle of the lobby. The Angelus, at Fourth and Spring streets, is located right in the center of the busy city of Los Angeles. There is an at- mosphere of comfort in this delightful tour- ist home that is almost never found apart from one's own fireside. In every hotel there are certain features which of neces- sity remain the same. Each has its dining room, its banquet room, its ball room, etc., but there is a vast difference in the atmos- phere of the "average hotel" and that of the Hotel Angelus. There is something about this hotel that is distinctly its own in character, something which invai-iably makes the gaiest glad he came and likewise loath to take his leave. There are writing rooms and reading rooms, there are lounging rooms and smoking rooms — but the most attractive room of all is the one where one may sit quietly resting or chatting with friends, and each time one looks in its direction there looms up before their vision an exquisite picture with its delicatelv tinted colorings, the greatest of all paintings from the brush of Millet, and from which the hotel derived its name, "The Ans'elus. " 129 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE A SECTION OF THE SPACIOUS LOBBY OF THE HOTEL ANGELUS On the mezzanine floor above are cozy retreats and a beautiful painting of the famous picture, "The Angelus," from which the hotel derived its name Away from the business center, but still in Los Angeles, is the Hotel Holly- wood situated at the base of the Santa Monica mountains. The wide s^jreading hospitable building contains one hundred and fifty rooms and is encircled by spa- cious porches which can be enjoyed win- ter or summer. The refreshing ocean breeze, palms and luxuriant shrubbery temper the warai days, while gay flowers and sweet odors make the winter tourist forget the discomforts of the ice-bound East. The kitchens are immaculately kept and open at all times for inspection of guests. The dining-room overlooks a beau- tiful garden. Many of the sleeping-rooms have private balconies or sleeping porches which command beautiful views of the foothills. Weekly dances, billiards, card rooms and tennis courts are free to gnests. Midway between Los Angeles and the ocean is the beautiful Beverly Hills Hotel, also on the American plan. The archi- tecture blends Avell with the background, while the outlook from the site is mag- nificent. It includes the Santa Monica mountains, the nearby rolling hills cov- ered with orchard, vineyard or natural growth and six miles away the shore of the Pacific. At night the sparkling, scin- tillating lights of Los Angeles, and above the shining stars, transform the scene into one of mysterious, witching beauty. The main dining-room is very attractive with low windows affording distant views and the nearer outlook on the flowers and foliage of the hotel grounds. Many of the rooms have out-door sleeping porches. The ample grounds are laid out in lawns ornamented with trees and flowers. One acre is devoted to the guests. Not only may they cut the flowers from it, but plant and raise them in individual gar- dens if they wish. Everything to in- terest and amuse the guests is close at hand or within easy reach. The Los An- geles Country Club, with its justly famed 130 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE golf course and fine new club house, ad- joins the hotel. Electric cars pass the hotel and reach the heart of the business center of Los Angeles in twenty-five min- utes. Pasadena has four great hotels which have risen, one after the other, to ac- commodate the ever-increasing winter travel to Southern California. Of these the Raymond was the first. It occupies a superb position, crowning an eminence about a mile from the center of Pasa- dena. The hotel is surrounded by its own beautiful grounds, a park of eighty acres which embraces one of the finest golf courses in Southern California, i-olling lawns, shady flower-bordered paths and acres of blossoms to supplj' the public and private rooms. The commanding site affords scenes of wonderful beauty stretching away on every side, from the flower-embroidered surroundings of the hotel away up to the snow crowned heights of the Sierra Madre or over the smiling fields and orchards of the San Gabriel Valley. Across the entire front of the building stretch the wide rose wreathed verandas which with their rugs and cozy furnishings are one of the hotel's most delightful features. Here the guests gather to read, write, chat or play cards and here afternoon tea is served. Be- sides the fine golf links and tennis courts nuxny other out-door attractions await the guests of the Raymond. Beautiful drives and walks, mountain trails and smooth automobile I'oads are close at hand; car- riages and fine saddle horses are kept on the hotel grounds and burros are provided for the children. A well equipped garage furnishes accommodation for the automo- biles of guests. The hotel is under the personal management of the proprietor, Mr. Walter Raymond, who for a num- ber of years was president of tlie Ray- mond-Whitcomb Company. It is conducted on the American plan. The season is from the middle of December until the first of June. The Hotel Green covers with its im- mense fireproof buildings nearly two city blocks in the heart of Pasadena. The group consists of the east, center and west buildings with the steel and cement covered corridors that span the street. Together they provide nine and a quarter acres of floor space, sufficient room for the diversified entertainment of guests even were the hotel not surrounded by a city and outlying country of surpass- HOLLYWOOD HOTEL, HOLLYWOOD 131 132 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE iiig- attractions. The hotel contains, be- sides the usual public rooms of charming arrangement, more than five hundred large guest chambers, three hundred and fifty \vith attached baths, and a large roof garden adorned with tropical plants and partly enclosed with glass. The hotel is conspicuous in the judgment of wide travelers for its good food, good cheer, good music and painstaking entertain- ment; in short for all the factors of pleasant living. The Green plays a large part in the social life of the city, and is the scene of many brilliant entertain- ments. The buildings are surrounded by parks. A city park of ten acres adjoins it on the south. A new tennis court and lawn golf course have been added to the attractions of the hotel grounds. The privileges of the Annandale golf course and club house and of the Altadena club house and links are available for the guests of the Hotel Green. The Hotel Maryland with its adorn- ment of vines and flowers, its setting of lawns and trees and shrubbery, its pic- turesque cottages and bungalows sur- rounded by tropical gardens, is an un- qualified bit of paradise in the midst of a city which as a whole may justly lay claim to the name. The hotel is located on Colorado Street, the principal street of Pasadena, and being open throughout the year, is the scene of much of the city's social life, as well as a delightful home for tourists and winter residents. As Mrs. Robert J. Burdette has said : "Its doors have been ever ready to swing inward to further the interests of philanthropic work, centralize art, music or literature, or for the lighter pleasures of life." The stranger who is a guest at the Maryland finds these pleasures and interests open to him, and shares in the festivities of the charity ball, weekly musicals and dances, and the New Year's Tournament of Roses. The old English music room; the dining-room, seating nearly a thousand people and command- ing from its French windows a view of the vine-draped Maryland pergola, the grill room prepared for cozy, informal feasting, the spacious lobby and cheer- ful morning room with its enormous win- dow, framing a rarely beautiful scene, are some of the obvious attractions for the gregarious, while for those disposed to repose and withdrawal are quiet writing and card rooms and, best of all, the cot- tages and bungalows wherein the privacy of family life may be enjoyed, together with all the advantages of a fine hotel. There are twenty-six of these separate homes furnishing apartments of from two to twelve rooms. In some cases there are from two to four apartments in a cottage. Meals may be taken at the hotel or served in charcoal ovens directly from the hotel kitchen. Many of the bungalows are built in Spanish style en- closing a patio. In the Marylaiul bungalow land is every- thing to tempt the dwellers to out-of-door living. By a clever arrangement the double tennis courts are sometimes con- verted into a great amphitheater with the dining-room veranda as a stage, an enor- mous canvas being stretched over the whole. To the guests of the Maryland the privileges of the Annandale, San Gabriel Valley and Altadena Country clubs are available. The Hotel Huntington, on Oak Knoll, Pasadena, is operated by the same man- agement as the Maryland. It is a princely building with vine-covered pergolas and arched corridors; with sunny courts and shady lawns whereon the transplanted palm mingles with indigenous live oaks; with gardens designed by an artist, and with an interior in keeping with its mag- nificent setting on the edge of a mesa above the San Gabriel Valley. The Hunt- ington has its own golf links on which stands the oldest Spanish mill in Cali- fornia. Besides this private course, guests at the Huntington may have the privil- eges of the Annandale, the Altadena and the San Gabriel Country clubs, Pasadena and its surroundings offer a thousand delights for the tourist or win- ter resident, scenery unsurpassed, untold miles of the finest motoring roads, beaches and mountains and the city pleasures of Los Angeles within easy reach of the hotels. These large hotels make up thea- ter parties for their guests and conduct excursions to all points of interest. The Pasadena horse show, the polo games and the beautiful New Year's tournament of roses are further winter attractions. The Alpine Tavern is perched on a shelf high up on the side of Mount Lowe at the end of the Mount Lowe electric railway. It is surrounded by beautiful trees, p'ne rnd live oak, wherein birds 133 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE and squirrels make merry, all so tame that they will almost eat out of one's hand. The Tavern is supplied with every convenience and the cuisine is excellent. The spacious lobby with its big stone fireplace seems to welcome all comei's. From the Tavern the trip to the top of Mount Lowe may be continued, if de- sired, on burros or horseback. The place is delightful for a stay of a few hours or for weeks of quiet rest above the clouds and strife of the city — literally above the clouds, for sometimes the waves and billows of fog may be seen tossing below, while about the Tavern and above is sunshine and peace. On the sands of Long Beach, facing the blue Pacific, only thirty-five minutes' car-ride from Los Angeles, stands the beautiful Hotel Virginia, one of the fi- nest beach resort hotels in the world. It is built of reinforced concrete in the form of the letter H, every one of its two hundred and fifty rooms having an out- side exposure. The north front overlooks a broad avenue of palms with views of the mountains in the distance. A stay at this charming hotel gives the traveler a chance to become acquainted with the sea in all its moods. The large concrete World-famous Arrowhead Mountain tennis courts southeast of the hotel af- ford from the spectator's seats another splendid view of the ocean. The con- crete walks and broad steps leading from the hotel down to the sands are draped wdth ivy and bordered with flowers. The Virginia Country Club is only fifteen min- utes' ride from the hotel and offei'S various pleasures for the guests of the hotel, golf, tennis and trap shooting, also musicals and social affairs. Bathing, fish- ing and boating are the especial delights of the Virginia. From the long pier STRATFORD INN, DEL MAR 134 LOS ANGKLKS SAX-DlKdO STANDAHD (JLIDE near by many fish are taken with rod and reel. This may be varied by trolling from a launch for large fish in the open sea. Catalina Island is only two hours away and here is sport for the most ex- pert fishermen. The Hotel Virginia is lieadquarters for the Sunset Yacht Club and from the verandas a fine view of the racing may be had on regatta days. A driveway extends for miles south along the bluff over the ocean. The beach also affords a fine speedway. Horseback riders delight in a canter along its hard sands. The Hotel Stowell, located on Spring Street just south of Fourth in Los An- geles, is in all truth "one block from everywhere, ' ' being that distance from the shopping, wholesale and financial dis- tricts. Located midway between the two Interurban Stations, all depot cars pass- ing the door, places it in the most con- venient spot for visitors. The entrance and foyer are finished in Old English tile effects, and this, condoled with the artistic decorations, at once impress the visitor, preparing him for the surprises which await. The house contains 265 rooms with bath, each furnished in a most com- fortable manner, and all so arranged as to provide abundance of air and sunshine. A clerk is stationed on each floor to per- form all legitimate service required. Upon the mezzanine and ground floors will be found every requisite for the traveler; while the rates are very reasonable. The Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel is a health resort, but also a luxurious hotel where the healthy tourist may enjoy him- self, availing himself or not as he chooses of the steam baths, mud baths and min- eral water which are useful in many dis- orders. The Avaters are said to possess the same curative value as those of Carls- bad. The hotel is beautifully situated facing the San Bernardino Valley, under the great arrowhead half way up Arrow- head Mountain, and the views from its windows and veranda are superb. Within a short distance from the hotel on one side are boiling springs and steam caves; on the other side the springs and stream are icy cold. Connected with the hotel is a well equipped stable, where burros and saddle horses can be obtained for the mountain rides. Safe trails lead to wild canyons or to vantage points for particularly impressive views. There are many beautiful walks to be taken and fine roads for automobiles. The hotel is only thirty minutes distant by electric car Ironi the inisy little city of San Bernardino. Stratford Inn is an attractive and de- light I uily situated hotel, twenty miles north of San Diego, on the Santa Fe railroad, and on the Coast Road, a concreted liiglivvay trom Los Angeles to San Uiego. It stands on a hill high above the sea, commanding a glorious view of the distant mountains, and an overpowering sweep of the Pacific and of the surf-washed beach at its feet. The wide linn stretch of sand is delightful lor bathing, fishing, horseback riding or niotoriiig. dust below tiie hotel, nearer the beach, stands the batli house and plunge, with nearly a million gallons of I'unning tepid salt water, and decorated with baskets of tropical flowers and growing plants hanging from the high ceilings. A ten- hundred-foot pleasure pier extends from the bluff near the bath house. (lolf, tennis, deep-sea and pier fishing are other forms of amusement readily accessible. Cood duck, ((uail and rabbit hunting is found nearby. There are many picturescpie places in the vicinity to be visited : the Cave of the Winds, the Witches' Cauldron, the Grand Canyon, Wave Crest, the Point of Pines; and this spot has a romantic interest as well as having been the scene of Bayard Taylor's classic poem "Paso del Mar." The famous "Torrey Pine," which is ab- solutely unknown on the face of the earth except at Del Mar, is a remnant of pre- historic ages. San Diego is well prepared to provide not only comfortably but luxuriously for the throng of exposition visitors in 1916. The IT. S. Grant Hotel is located in the heart of San Diego, on a main business street, opposite the pretty Plaza Park, with its handsome fountain and fine palms. The hotel is of fireproof construction, a beautiful specimen of concrete architec- ture, consisting of two wings joining a central building at right angles. A unique feature which delights all guests is the palm garden which fills the space between the two wings above the imposing en- trance. Second floor rooms open with French windows on this beautiful spot. A fountain plays in the center, surrounded by aquatic plants. Palms and ferns and the vine-draped pergola which covers it make it appear like a beautiful garden. All the I'ooms are sunny, with outside exposure. The Bivouac Grill is a unique room, with military decorations to honor the great name which the hotel beai*s. The mural paintings, flags and seals of 135 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE THE XLU AULLIOX-DOLLAK HOTEL ROSSLVX, LUS ANGELES the great nations are all in keeping with this idea. Both grill and dining-room bear a well-deserved reputation for the excellence and cosmopolitan variety of their food. Tourists will find at the Hotel Sandford, Fifth and A streets, San Diego, perfectly delightful sunny rooms, furnished regard- less of cost in a substantial and comfortable manner. The manager, Mr. F. S. Sand- ford, having an international reputation for old-world courtesy and years of experi- ence managing the highest-class hotels of the world, conceived the idea of a hotel with reasonable rates combined with the perfect service and surroundings of the higher class hotels, imparting an atmos- phere that makes it especially desirous for ladies. The hotel is just sufficiently out- side the zone of eternal bustle to be prac- tically semi-private, and yet is within two minutes' walk of the most important build- ings of the city and on the main car line to the exposition grounds. The San Diego is a new million dollar, reinforced concrete building, fireproof, thoroughly modern and conveniently lo- cated for business or pleasure. All car lines pass its doors and it is only a short distance from the postoffice, custom house, all the i^rominent stores, the banks and the new Spreckels Theater Building. It is on the European plan. The Hotel del Coronado is in a class by itself. Its location on a narrow strip of land between the ocean and the bay would lend distinction to any building, but when charm of situation is enhanced by the great wide stretching structure surrounded by a park and enclosing a patio filled with trees and flowers and singing birds, 136 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE the result is a hotel offering unusual at- tractions. On one side the surf washes the sands only a few feet from the hotel windows; on the other the smooth lawns, brilliant flowers and noble trees present an entirely different scene, while within the quiet patio one seems miles away from all that can vex or annoy. Within the hotel is every convenience and luxury known to modern hotel life with addi- tional comforts rarely found. The home feature is emphasized everywhere. Many of the rooms and suites have private piazzas which are furnished as living- rooms or sleeping porches as desired. An open air school is open all the yeai*, giving individual instruction to children of any gi'ade or from any school, so that they may keep up with the classes they have left at home. The Montessori method is used for young children. A well equipped playground is located on the beach. Outdoor life is so emphasized that many of the attractive indoor rooms seem scarcely needed, but they are all there, lobby, card rooms, reading rooms, writ- ing rooms, billiard and ball rooms, sun parlors and casino. Verandas and bal- conies are everywhere and from them and from all the windows are beautiful views of the ocean, or of San Diego harbor, the city and mountains in the distance. The grounds of the hotel are thirty-five acres in extent. The hotel itself covers four and a half acres. Surf bathing may be enjoyed nearby. Yachting, canoeing, rowing, motor boating and fishing are favorite pastimes of many. The Coro- nado Country Club T>rovides golf links, tennis courts and polo grounds for others. There are splendid roads for riding and driving, and no end of interesting ex- cursions to be taken. The hotel manage- ment arranges weekly motor picnics to the Cuyamaca mountains or beach. The hotel is conducted on the American plan with cuisine and service of the highest excellence. HOTEL DEL CORONADO— SAN DIEGO 137 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE The Hotel Potter at Santa Barbara crowns a knoll formerly known as Bur- ton Mound, on which for unknown years has gushed forth a sulphur spring. The water still bubbles up in a marble basin in the lobby of the hotel. Beautiful park-like grounds of wide extent surround the building nd slope down to ihe Palm Boulevard which borders the sea. A more charming setting can scarcely be imagined, acres of velvet lawns, rose gardens wuth thousands of bushes which bloom nearly the whole year through, hundreds of other plants and shrubs, at least a mile of asphalt walks and driveways bordered by blazing scarlet geraniums and beyond it all the blue Pacific. Every window of the hotel frames a picture. The comfort- able chairs of the wide veranda invite one to rest and enjoy the sight. Within the hoiTse is every comfort which a large, luxurious hotel can provide. The table is largely supplied with products of the Potter farm, thus insuring pure milk, cream and butter, and a prime quality in eggs, poultry, squabs and vegetables. Even a large portion of the meats are supplied by the farm. The hotel is op- erated on the American plan. Within the groiands are asphalt tennis courts, garage and livery stables where nearly two hundred horses are kept for riding and driving. In one part of the grounds is a menagerie and a deer park. The Potter Counti'y Club is an adjunct of the Hotel Potter and offers every convenience of a first-class club as well as facilities for out-door sports, including polo and golf. It occupies about one hundred and fifty acres of the celebrated Hope ranch. The club house is on a knoll overlooking a pretty fresh water lake. From the veranda almost the whole of the club grounds can be seen. Breakfasts, lunch- eons and teas are served either in the pretty grill room or on the verandas looking out on the wooded hills. The club grill is operated in conjunction with the hotel dining-room. Spanish and South- ern dishes are a specialty. There are scores of delightful rides and drives in the vicinity of Santa Barbai'a. The surrounding scenery is Avonderfully beautiful, and the equable climate en- ables one to enjoy out-door life to the utmost. All the delights the sea can offer are to be enjoyed here. Annual regattas bring representatives from every important club on the coast and the Hotel Potter is the headquartei's of social ac- tivities. The Santa Barbara channel af- fords fine deep sea fishing. The Hotel Potter is only a step from the Southern Pacific station and stop-over privileges are granted on all through coast line tickets. Another charming hotel of Santa Bar- bara is the New Arlington, a reinforced concrete, fireproof hotel, built on the site of the old Arlington which in the early seventies was the most important resort hotel in California. It stands in five acres of lawn embellished by flowers and handsome trees, many of them palms of large growth. Neither brains nor money has been spared to make a safe, substan- tial hotel fitted with every luxury. The architect has borrowed freely from the missions in his design, making an adap- tion of some of their best features. The terraced towers strongly suggest those of the Santa Barbara Mission. Among all the charming hotels of Southern California the Glenwood Mission Inn at Riverside stands out by itself. It is the hotel that is different. It was built con amore and is carried on in the same spirit. The architecture is an adapta- tion and mingling of the best from all the missions, the arches, the corridors, the patio, the campanile and the tiled floors and roof. It is typically Californian, yet unlike any other hotel in California or elsewhere, either in its material as- pect or in the atmosphere which per- vades it. It breathes peace and quietness upon all w'ho enter the shady courtyard and cross its threshold. Over an entrance to one of the inner rooms is the motto "Ye canna be baith grand and comfort- able," and the atmosphere of the inn is a practical exemplification of this. The luxury of the place is in the way of care- ful service, delicious meals, beauty, har- mony and objects of interest on every side. For all its air of simplicity no hostelry was ever more carefully planned and built and furnished. All Europe has been ransacked and the results claini at- tention on every side, yet eveiything is fitting and harmonious. The main part of the building was built by the owner and proprietor, Mr. Frank Miller, in 1902. The cloister room was added in 1910. The building, occupy- ing a full city block, is of brick and con- crete, enclosing on three sides a patio filled with flowers, shrubs and vines. It 138 LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE encloses within its walls the original adobe Glenwood built by Mr. Miller and his father in 1875. This now serves as the tea room. Walking around the out- side of the inn you will see that the wall on the east or Orange Avenue side is a reproduction of the butti'essed side wall of San Gabriel Mission. On the north or Sixth Street side the facliada of Santa Barbara has been the motif. On the cor- ner of Sixth and Orange streets is a re- plica of the dome of the Carmel Mission. A colonade of arches which San Fernando and Capistrano missions have suggested faces the Seventh Street side, and in the courtyard is the campanile patterned from San Gabriel. Within the beamed ceiling of the cloister music room is copied from that of San Miguel Mission and the bal- cony rail is a copy of the altar rail of the same church. Mr. Miller's collection of bells is world famous, the most valuable in the United States. They are hung in the Garden of the Bells, a roof garden prepared for them. They number nearly three hundred, ranging from harness bells to church bells, of all ages and from all lands. The study of their forms, the materials of which they are made, their histories and the quaint legends many of them bear would furnish hours of interest. Mr. Miller's collection of crosses is the largest in the world. The smaller ones are in a cabinet in the cloister music room. It would take too long to enumerate all the beauty and interest contained within these walls. The rooms themselves are worthy of study, the Carmel room, the St. Cecelia room, the Japanese landing, the Colonial landing, the cloister walk, the cloister music room and the Refecterio with its groined arches, stained glass win- dows picturing scenes, industries and rec- reations connected with the life of the missions, and a bas-relief by Richard Calder representing the growth of wor- sliip from the fire worshippers down to Christian times. If one room of this won- derful inn can stand out above all the other fascinating ones it is the cloister room. This is of noble proportions, with a great organ at one end. There is music here daily at one, five and eight o'clock. It is an experience never to be forgotten to sit in the choir stalls, fashioned after those of W^estminster Abbey, and listen to the moving tones of organ and harp, now in some masterpiece, again in simple, familiar melodies, while the eye lingers on each beautiful object that goes to produce this mellow old-world effect — the paintmgs; the armor; the stained glass windows; the banners brought from an- cient buildings in the old world hanging over the balconies; the panels from an old Spanish church of the year 1400, the lamps, the carved monastery table over three hundred years old — all these and more. During the winter and spring months a song service is held here every Sunday night. National hymns of different coun- tries, ballads, college songs, familiar patri- otic airs and the standard old hymns are sung. The bells of the campanile chime the hours and whatever the special in- terest of the moment, it is forgotten Avhile the sweet tones of "Mv Old Kentucky Home," ''The Rosary,'"' ''Abide With Me," or some other old-time favorite falls upon the ear. \lEVv' OF TENT CITY FROM TOVVEK OF HOTEL DEL CORONADO, CORONADO BEACH 139 INDEX— GENERAL A PAGE Alligator Farm 19 American Tours 91, 92 Amusements 19 Angeleno Heights 20 Angel 's Flight 21 Animal Farm 21 Aquaria 21 Aqueduct 21 Area of Los Angeles 23 Armory 23 Arroyo Seco 23 Art Commission 23 Associated Charities 23 Auditoriums 23 Automobiles, Legal Rates of 23 Aviation Fields 25 Balloon Route Trip 73 Banks of Los Angeles 25 Beaches 25 Baseball 19 Bathing and Swimming 19 Bible Institute 25 Bimini Hot Springs 27 Boulevards and Auto Trips 27, 29 Boyle Heights 30 Cafes Coaching Central Square Cahuanga Pass and Valley 30 30 30 Chamber of Commerce 30, 31 Chamber of Mines and Oils 31 Chinatown 31 Churches 31,33 Church Federation 33 City Hall 33 Civic Center 33, 35 Climate 35 Clubs, Societies, etc 35, 38 Coastwise Steamship Lines 38 Colegrove 38 Colleges and Schools 38, 41 Coronel Collection 41 Country Clubs 41 Court House 41 Custom Office 41 Eastlake Park 41 Echo Park 43 El Camino Real 43 Elysian Park 43, 44 Exposition Park 44 Federal Building 44 Federation of Churches 44 Federation of State Societies 44 Fiestas 44 Fishing 19 Fort Hill 45 G Gardena .... Garvanza . . . Golf Griffith Park 45 45 19 45 H Hacks, Legal Rates of 45 Hall of Records 45 Harbor 45 Highland Park 45 Hollenbeck Park 45 Hollywood 45, 47 Homes for the Aged 47 Hospitals 47 Hotels 47,48 Hunting 19 Information Bureaus . Introductorv to Guide 48 3 Kite-Shaped Trip 77, 79 Laurel Canyon 79, 80 Latitude and Longitude 48 Learned Societies 49 Lil)raries 49, 51 Lodges 51 Lookout Mountain 51 Los Angeles Name 51, 53 Los Angeles Railroad 53 Los Angeles, Historical Sketch of . . . 17 140 INDEX— GENERAL Continued M PAGE Manufacturing 53 Mary Andrews Clark IMeniorial Home.. 53 Mines and Mining 53 Mission Church 53 Mission Play 53, 54 Motoring 19 Mountains 54, 55 Museums 55, 57 Musical Los Angeles 57 Mount Lowe Trip 80, 82 Mount Wilson Trip 83 N Notable Hotels 129 Old Mission Trolley Trip 83, 88 Oil Wells 57 Old Mission Church 57 Ostrich Farms 57, 59 Orange Belt Excursion 88, 91 PAGE Kailroad Ticket Offices 62 Kosidential Section 62 Restaurants 63, 65 Retail District 65 Rancho La Brea 60 San Diego (see San Diego Section). 105-127 San Fernando Valley Trip 93, 97 Santa Catalina Islands 97, 98 Santa Fe Railroad 66 Salt Lake Railroad 66 San Pedro 65 Sonoratown 65 South Park 67 Southern Pacific 67 Southwest Museum 67 Special Pleasure Trips 71 Steamship Lines 67 Sunset Park 67 Sycamore Grove 67 Pacific Electric Railway 59 Panama-California International Ex- position (see Exposition Section). 5,15 Parks 19, 59 Periodicals 59, 60 Playgrounds 60, 62 Plaza 62 Plaza Church 62 Point Firmin 62 Polo 20,62 Population 62 Post Office 62 Prospect Park 62 B Railroads Railroad Stations 62 62 Taxicabs 67 Theatres 20,67 Title Page 1 Triangle Trolley Trip 101-103 U TJniversitv Park 67 Vallevs 67,69 W Westlake Park AVilmington . . . Yachting: 69 69 20 141 Illustrations PAGE Above the Clouds 83 All-the-Year-Kound Sport 20 Amusement Pier, Venice 72 And Behold a New Light 22 A Street in Santa Ana 101 Arrowhead Mountain 134 Banks 24 Balboa Island 103 Beach at Oceanside Ill Bimini Hot Springs 27 Busch Gardens 87 Cafe Bristol, Interior View 63 California State Building 14 Cawston Ostrich Farm 88 Central Square 43 Celery Industry 101 Cave, Ocean Park 122 Central Park 34 City and County Eoads 26 Clune 's Auditorium 64 Court House and Hall of Justice 42 Curtis School of Aviation 114 City Homes 32 Davidson, G. A 7 Domestic Arts Building 10 Exhibit Hall, Chamber of Commerce. . 28 Exposition Park 50 Famous Marble Lobby Hotel Alexandria 48 First Pepper Tree 109 From the Mountains to the Sea 84 Fountain, San Fernando Mission 95 Hawaii at the Exposition 12 Home Economy Building 13 Hotel del Coronado 137 Hotel Green 132 Hollywood Hotel 131 Home of the Mission Play 54 Hotel Virginia *. 136 Largest Outdoor Organ in the World. . 9 La Jolla Beach 115 Las Vegas Grade 116 Looking East Along El Prado 5 Lobby, Hotel Angelus 130 Long Beach 101 Long Beach Sanitarium 103 Los Angeles Harbor 17, 99 Little, A. E. & Co. (interior view)... 44 Looking across Garden Southern California Counties' Building 8 PAGE Map of Pacific Electric Eailway System 94 Missions of Southern California 82 Mission San Gabriel 85 Mme. Schumann-Heinke 's Home 125 Mountain Spring Eoad 116 Museum of History, Exposition Park. 60 Mount Lowe Incline Eailway 81 National Soldiers' Home 73 New Million Dollar Hotel Eossyln... 136 Ocean Park Bath House 73 One of the Bestful Balconies 9 One of the Palaces 8 One of the Products of Southern Cali- fornia 58 One Day 's Sport 123 On the Trail 80 Orange Groves, Smiley Heights 77 Our Parks 66 Palace Liberal Arts, P. C. L E 15 Panorama along El Prado 12 Polytechnic High School 39 Post Office 56 Eamona 's Marriage Place 126 Eesidence, J. D. Spreckels 119 Eiverside Mission Inn 79 Sailing on San Diego Bay 118 San Joaquin Valley Building 11 Scenes at Venice 76 Schools of San Diego 120 Santa Catalina Islands 99 Shipping, Harbor of the Sun 106 Spanish Troubadours 13 Stratford Inn 134 Street Scene 52 Southern California Counties Building 7 Sunset, Point Loma 122 The Booterj^ (interior view) 46 The Canals at Venice 75 The Harbor of the Sun 106, 112 The City of Homes 32 The ' ' Paseo ' ' at Eedondo 75 The Sierras 68 Tower of Science and Education Building 11 Tent City 139 Trout Fishing 21 Wading Pool, Echo Park 61 Warner's Springs 124 Wonderland, Ocean Park 118 Young Men's Christian Association.. 38 142 Advertisements I'MiV. Alvarailo Hotel 8(5 Alpine Tavern 131} Appleton Hotel 108 American Tours 90 Anjielus Hotel 129 Arlington Hotel 138 Arrowhead Hot Springs 135 Balboa Hotel 102 Beverly Hills Hotel 130 Bimini Hot Springs 110 Burlington Apartments 100 Cafe Bristol 2 Carnegie Apartments 104 Clune "s Auditorium Theatre 64 Cumnock School 78 Cordova Hotel 100 Dresden Apartments 86 Parish, O. E. & Co 96 Golden West Hotel Third Cover Glenwood Mission Inn 138, 139 Greene, A. & Sons Inside Front Cover Hollywood Military Academy 96 Hotel Alexandria 129 Hotel Balboa 102 Hotel del Coronado 136, 137 Hotel Green 131 Hotel Hollywood 130 Hotels of Los Angeles 47, 48 Hotel Maryland 133 Hotel Potter 138 Hotel Eaymond 131 Hotel Sandford 110, 136 Hotel San Diego 136 Hotel Sherwood 102 Hotel Stowell 135 Hotel St. James 108 Hotel Stillwell 96 Hotel Virginia 134 Hotel Van Nuys 129 Hotel Westmoore 102 New Southern Hotel 104 Nordlinger, S. & Sons 4 Pleasant View Apartments 86 Push Apartments 86 Scarborough Apartments 96 Selwyn Apartments 102 Stratford Inn 128, 135 The Bootery 144 U. S. Grant Hotel 135 Ville de Paris 78 Venice Chamber of Commerce 74 Walton & Company 70 143 I mi I SECTION SHOWING ENTRANCE TO THE BLACK AND GOLD FRENCH SLIPPER ROOM LOS ANGELES SHOP MOST BEAUTIFUL SHOE SHOPS IN THE WORLD OP I AN UNUSUAL EXCLUSIVE SPECIALTY HOUSE DEVOTING EVERY EFFORT TO THE CREATION AND RETAILING OF DISPLAY WINDOWS AND LOBBY SAN FRANCISCO SHOP ij SMART SHOES FOR WOMEN CHILDRENS SHOES CT.H.WOLFEl.T CO. . BLACK AND GOLD FRENCH SLIPPER ROOM SAN FRANCISCO SHOP theBOOTERY Smart Shoes for Women LOS ANGELES 432 BROADWAY PASADENA SAN FRANCISCO 1 52 GEARY STREET SANTA BARBARA MARYLAND HOTEL POTTER HOTEl LOS ANGEl B U 6.1 144 ^^^s>^^'*^"r%,^^ The man or woman who travels occasionally — or any traveler — adds comfort and pleasure to the journey by selecting the Golden West Hotel when visiting San Francisco. Situated at the corner of Powell and Ellis streets, in the heart of the downtown district, it offers a head- quarters from which is easily reached the theatre and shopping district. All of the principal theatres and stores are but one or two blocks from this hotel. RATES One person without bath . . . $1.00 up Two persons without bath ... 1.50 up One person with bath 1.50 up Two persons with bath .... 2.00 up The Golden West provides a cheerful, genial atmos- phere not found in many hotels, and a courteous, interested service from employees which every traveler is quick to appreciate. Our free bus meets all incoming trains and steamers. Make all reservations direct. Simply drop us a card stating hour of arrival and reservation desired — we will do the rest. The Golden West Hotel SAN FRAN C ISCO Fred P. 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