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 HOTELS RESTAURANTS CUISINE 39 imposing and Sacramento and Stockton have conspicuously good accommodation for travellers. There are pleasant taverns on Mt. Tamalpais, at San Rafael and Belvedere, and at San Mateo, San Jose, San Luis Obispo and Ventura on the way .south. In every day of twenty-four hours scores of tour- ists and settlers, prospective and prospecting, arrive in Los Angeles. To meet their needs a number of spacious hotels have been erected. They rise many stories in height, some have lobbies of onyx, all have baths of tile, and the charges are fair for fair service. The Van Nuys, the Alex- andria and the Lankershim are the most pre- tentious. The Hollenbeck has an old-time air of hospitality. Even in the houses of moderate price one finds every American convenience. A few rent rooms only and have no restaurant service. As in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and other large towns, the rates are ordinarily based on the European plan, and vary from 75 cents to $1.50 a day and up to $3.00, according to the hotel, for rooms without bath. Many new hotels are built with a bathroom adjoining every room or every two rooms. For such accommodations, even in San Francisco, terms may be as low as $5.00 a week in a house new and decently-kept, but laying no claim to pretence. One may, on the other hand, pay several times five dollars by the day for