SEMf.TROPIC C I T.H ORN]. I. 
ILLUSTRATIONS, 
"VJ'OTTTINfJ can give enutern people r» 
J ..1 better or more accurate idon of our 
country-ami its ad vantages than illustration* 
of various places and objects of interest. 
We have the pleasure of presenting: sev¬ 
eral engravings ill this number, and are sat¬ 
isfied they will continue In bo appreciated 
l>y our patrons and many readers. The first 
illustration is of the beautiful residence of 
Ww II. PtRnr, 
pleasantly situated on the «ft*t side of tlio 
river, on the Perry Villa Tract. 
The grounds of this rcallv firm place 
were laid out, and art, in shrubs and trees 
in 1876, and tin- picture shows the won¬ 
derful growth that has hern made and can 
he made nowhere na in Send tropic Cali¬ 
fornia. The house was 
erected in 1877, and is 
among the finest of 
the many tasteful and 
elegaut homes that 
abound in Southern 
California. 
Mr. Perry started 
from Newark, Ohio, 
with Col. W W. Hol¬ 
lister and brother, in 
1853, driving large 
droves of sheep, eatt.le 
and horses, arriving i ri 
Los Angeles in Febru¬ 
ary, 1854, and went to 
work by the day in the 
furniture manufactory 
of Gilchrist A Stone. 
In 185G lie started in 
business with Mr. J, 
I>. Brady ns partner, 
opening the first. furni- 
lure store iu the place. 
In 1858 Mr. Wood- 
worth bought ili. 
Brady's interest in the 
increasing buainoas, 
and the manufactory 
was moved on Main 
street, near the Pu- 0 
House. They set up 
and ran tbo first en¬ 
gine over ran in Lna 
Angeles, continuing m 
that place until 1$12, 
whoa S. H, Mott 
came a member of 
firm, the style of the tirm becoming P* mu, 
\\ 001. worth & Co., HOW located on New 
Commercial at rent, wbtra they |,n»r. | Ml j|, 
a laningm.il and eslahliahed an c,v 
h i' of C' ‘*uy 
bill of lumhe. even to the ...nil 
notice. UUy bwjldin 8' 
Dotiek A. BaAliLKT, 
JlUTr y ;: HTH firm started in a ' 
st l' uf 1 ii n r" doll,,,. ]|„ 
;'sr, fit 1 ; y 
partner, was the company. In ih 7 > , fl , 
hm. became Hotter A Lord; Mr i“ w 
bord having bought oul M,. ICimI.i! 
lum/iod ,« Iho tin,, hm vJa.^K El 
sold to Mr. C. H Bradley Mr. Lord still 
1 'mains with the firm and pre-ode* over 
(he office t) (Minosa, and is always ready 
With his genial cordiality to nmko hi» 
friends fool perfectly nt home and in a 
good humor to buy a hill of goods. 
$60,000 Ivvirerro. 
The large stork now earned hv this firm 
readies nearly fifty thousand dollar*, cm 
bracing everything usually found in a first 
class furniture establishment, beside* car¬ 
rying an immense stock or house furnish¬ 
ing goods, such a* carpets, matting, nil 
cloth, linoleum, paper hanging in great 
i|uantitics, shades, cornice, lace curtain*, 
mouldings, frmnm, mirrors, bruekets, lied- 
' lm ~- uphalutsring, 6to To 
date tins immense stock the firm occupy 
entire 
building, tin 
. mill the 
giving 
ii" m a Homing .if uvoi I7.IMK) ■upni-f)<-i a | 
I, more mom than !l...I mr.ip.ed In anv 
oilier firm on the Paniflc « outside of 
Kan I'ranemcu, and probably mil m. idled 
1 by iiiiuiy riven in tic metropolis 
In addition, lliev linv. 1 brmdi luui .. 
116 Main sti-tcl, with a full ,tod, ft,,, 
tirm employs about twenty people, lt „d 
attend to all Inisiiii --, intrust.1 them will, 
pronretm-H.. and liddity Then ie,„,i„ | 
lion Ini iir-i dngood- and lion rithle 
dealing m ooUMtH for then sucee- am! Ion • I 
continuance in binduevu. 
IHu .« ,v K i;iui i. 
I lie dry good* bumne-a is > 4 ,-|| repre- 
' "ted in t.os Vtigr !<-<-. and the tirm whose 
mum. stands at the head of this article 
rank-, ,-is the peer of any. Messrs. Dillon 
A Kmealy commenced businem* in this 
city five yean* ago. and notwithstanding 
the 11 bard times’ that we have put pa.**) | 
through, they have l«-fn aurroasfu] be. 
yond tlieir moat sanguine ex per latum*. 
There. is n r< a*on for all this, and it was 
made plain to us when we called on the 
firm, pencil and note 1-ook in Land, to 
wnt.. .1 pci, picture of the inaidn of tiieir 
splendid atom rooms, to accv >IU patiy || lr , 
engraving on another pagan f tine paper. 
Mr. K informed ua tbut they did not 
dll any blowing about their bonne*, but, 
a ® WB had asked atenit hi* bunions*, he 
— ould show us their hooka. It woe our 
duty, in Brudstrert's 
Mercantile AgcncT. 
for some years to dir 
1 ibis very business of 
•aamiuing the book* 
of various firms, on 
which to lame a rat¬ 
ing for credit, and we 
were at home at thia 
work, although en¬ 
tirely out of our prov¬ 
ince in tins article. 
We take the privilege 
of saying that we 
never had n better 
■bowing made us by 
any firm; tiieir ac¬ 
counts with all the 
lending dry goods 
houses of the United 
Slates, each and ever* 
one, showed that ail 
lulls are paid, and 
their cash account i* 
ample to discount all 
hills bought iu the 
near future, 
llrrr t» a firm that 
«■ not dependent on 
•my wholesale firm for 
go into 
as spot 
Auyci-s, and buy 
whore the is-*t goods 
for the least luouev 
eau hi had. 
Hveiybody umh-r- 
standa that the coin 
jwiU always oomman I •* bed-rcs-k' prices 
“lid so von will find Uvwn. Dillon \ 
th 
y |.repat I to offer their goods at 
u lowest povohlc _ 
$65,000 Sroc*. 
This firm i-miii« uiivratib 
upward* of sutv-five 
thousand 'bdlara worth of goods, . mbnm 
'"8 everything to W fun tit in a fi,-,i 
establishment, including dry roods, no¬ 
tions, Iulics and gent* furnishing good* 
l»tr. ^ 
'Hi. gi lit Wien are practical mrr- 
cluiiils, mi lerstand tlo-ir l-iunm thor¬ 
oughly , and in at every customer with (he 
»mc eolirl* - V, lelvilig Oil low pru . g tH al 
gi'iul* and h- uioiable deshue , eoutin- 
. .. . I “t rviHn . fin 1 u their laig- list of 
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