Identifier: 1910tripofhmmbat00jame (find matches)
Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. Yet with all these sports I have not yet touched upon those provided bythe water. With the bay on one side and the ocean on the other, the water-lover has everything that heart can desire. Yachting, boating, canoeing,fishing, swimming, marine sports of every kind are regularly provided. As for the rooms of Hotel del Coronado, everything that a perfect man-agement can suggest has been installed for the comfort of guests. Thecuisine has already added many laurels to Mr. Morgan Rosss fame as oneof the great hotel directors of the United States. The Grant Hotel, San Diego The visitors all returned to Los Angeles enthusiastic with what theirbrief trip south had revealed to them. They had anticipated much at Hoteldel Coronado and had received more than they expected, but they weresurprised beyond measure at the marked progress. During the last fewyears the city of San Diego has made a growth in population and a devel-opment in all material things that is simi)ly wonderful. .\ great number
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c B J3 TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 143 of new Iniildings have recently been erected, such as the Union Building,ihe Public Lilirary, the magnificent High School and the Elks Hall. Thegreat department store buildings call forth praise, but surpassing them allin grandeur, excellence and magnificence is the New Grant Hotel. Thishotel by its size, equipment and management at once leaps to the front rank,even among Southern Californias noted hotels. Its owner has done his partin ):)ro\-iding a building that \\-ould not suffer in comparison with the finesthotel buildings of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago or Boston, in thiscountry, or of Paris, London or Berlin, in Europe. Just as U. S. Grant,general of the United States Army, and President of the United States,.-tood on an equality with any of the monarchs or generals of the old ornew world, so does this new^ hotel at once and without question take itsproper place as one of the noted few. It is said by wide travelers to beihe most

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