No comfort is denied the tourist-guest in the hours which he spends 

 in the city itself. Hundreds of friends from other states find cozy lodgings 

 at all seasons in the private homes of Riverside, lodgings furnished, if 

 desired, with kitchen ware, so that small families of simple tastes may 

 play at keeping house, dining out occasionally, if fancy so directs. Room- 

 ing-houses and hotels offer neat and pleasant quarters to the short-time 

 visitor, while the matchless Hotel Glenwood, California's mission inn, wel- 

 comes both summer and winter guests to the happy family always gathered 

 beneath its hospitable roof. 



The most sensitive of travelers never feels himself a means of livelihood 

 to the good people of Riverside, — a pleasing contrast to conditions in 

 many a so-called "tourist town." These happy folk already enjoy 

 unparalleled prosperity as growers of the orange, three million dollars being 

 distributed each season among the twenty-five hundred contented families 

 to whom Riverside is "home." Their visitors are but honored guests, and 

 every effort is made to please them. 



Riverside's altitude and geographical setting make climatic conditions 

 ideal. The winter rainfall, while sufficient for the rancher's every need, 

 is never a barrier to the visitor's enjoyment. Showery days, alternating 

 with weeks of sunshine, duplicate the May weather of the prairie states 

 with mud — oh joy — omitted. 



Even the summers, which tradition brands unbearable, are in no wise 

 trying to the man who has tasted the discomforts of a muggy August day 

 in the states lying east of the Rockies. Cooling breezes temper old Sol's 

 fiercest midday demonstrations, while the nights which follow are as 

 pleasant as one could wish. 



AN ALL-THE-YEAR-ROUND RESORT 



FRANK WIGGINS 

 Manager Iros Angreles Chamber of Commerce 



YOU might call the southern part of California "The Land of the 

 Tourident." Now, don't get peevish or excited; a diagram shall be 

 forthcoming at once. A Tourident is a tourist who becomes a resi- 

 dent, and the woods are full of them. 



No, there's no patent, not even "applied for," on the word. Like as 

 not it will go to the junkheap along with President Roosevelt's reformed 

 spelling. 



But let that pass. What I am getting at is, that where once the 

 majority of the tourists came merely to see, they now come to stay. This 

 is true not as to the southern part of the State alone, but as to all of 

 California. In evidence let me cite the 125,000 persons who came to 

 California this year on colonist (one-way) tickets. Some have returned, 

 to be sure, but that does not matter; most of these will come back. 

 They have been inoculated with the California microbe, and the germ is 

 working. 



The peculiar attractions of the southern part of California are far 

 past the experimental stage, so to speak. Some years ago the tourist who 

 came here did n't know whether to stay, unless he was fully prepared to 

 take chances. He did n't know whether to raise oranges or not, and he 

 was not certain that irrigation was a dependable staff to lean upon. Los 

 Angeles was growing, and growing rapidly, but even its present status 

 was not then assured. We were not as well prepared to receive sightseers 

 as we should have been. 



If these things were a little uncertain here at home they were much 

 more so in the East, where California was not so well known as it is now. 

 There were plenty of climate and scenery here then as now, but these were 

 not enough for the tourist, who wanted to stay. He could not live off 



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