The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
A Trip to OystervilIe.
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Leaving here en- route for Oysterville last
week with the thermometer at about so in
the shade and taking the o. S. n. Co.'S ell
ecant steamer s. g. Reed shortly after
breakfast reached kalama, Tor all that's left
of ill., 1t seemed like viewing Goldsmiths
deserted village. The charred ruins of old
land marks seemed to breathe recollectlons
and a mournful welcome to the writer, who
spent some years there. 1t is difficult to
realize that this was once the tiourishing and
promising little city ''beneath the hill.
Patterson was still ION his feet" hopeful,
and nreclriue 10 rohull, Comegys also.
W Lad Int = momrrr ro remain. ana 10
we steamed on down the river the change
in temperature was so perceptiblo that by
the time we reached Astoria an overcoat was
by no means unnecessary. Next morning,
after considerable delay, (the regular boat
to uwaco being aground, in company with
our atfable and popular new Judge and
two Vancouver young ladies who We're 60
ing to Oystervilie for their health, we helped
swell the numbers of an excursion party OF
young Astoria ladies and gentlemen on
board the little steamer Katata, and crossed
the bay to Ilwaco the favorite summer re-
sort, but not without encountering squally
weather, and it was not long before the
gentle sex like Sir Admiral Porter of II. Il.
NJ ship Pingtore, who, 'when the breezes
blow generally goes below to seek the Sc
clusion that cabin grants, to say nothing
of 'their sisters and their cousins and their
aunts, y disappeared, while numerous young
gentlemen made frantic, not To say CHASTITY
futile efforts to conceal-in smiles-their
visible weakness.
At Ilwaco we found many Portlanders en-
camped, and being met by our old friend
Reed with a conveyance we soon were on
the beach, and after hearty dinner at
Stout's en- route for Oysterville. This beach
is well worth going to see For twenty
miles we rode over as beautiful a beach as
the sun shines on; hard as a board floor;
the wheels made scarcely an imprint on the
sand. The sea often washed thro the
wheels, and as far as the eye can reach
fore us, while ocean waves with roaring
sound dashed and dashed each other i'll mag
niicent abandon almost at our feet. We
viewed and enjoyed for three hours the most
magnificent, inspiritiug and exhilarating
sight this Coast affords; and it is doubtless
whether there is such beach, such water
ing place, III America, and the writer
prophesies that in twenty years or less, Sar-
atoga, Long Branch and other watering
places in the East, will be thought little of
comparatively, when the n. 7. K. X. is
completed, and such climate there found is
accessible to Eastern voyagers. Words can
but poorly paint this beach and the pictur-
esque grandness of the scene.
At Oysterville we found but little bust
ness at Court, and amused ourselves by
yachting, and at every possible moment IN
wandering and lounging in lstless freedom
beside the waters of Sboalwater Bay.
On the way home we fortunately caught
the Canby at Ilwaco with an excursion party
consisting of Judge Bellinger and many
members of the Portland bar, with their
families, who, during an afternoon adjourn
ment of the Astoria court, were taking
trip around the bay. We stopped an hour
AT Fort Candy, visited the lighthouse, and
from there had fine view of the wreck of
the Great Repubi;c, plainly seen, seemingly
but short distance from shore, still cling
lug with desperate obstinacy as a monument
of gross carelessness-- not of stupidity and
crime-to the sands OF the bar on which she
was wrecked; and viewing it as We did, we
could hardly. with all charity, find excuse
for this misfortune in sight OF Astoria, in
side of the bar, within a few miles OF the
light-house and seemingly safe. The wheel
houses or frame work still stands in CHASTITY
skeleton of its former magnificent proper
tons. Afar oil towards the Oregon shore
can be seen the ship Csty Of DUBLIN, which
they are gradually raising and pulling away
to deep water. We, thsn visited Fort
Stevens, where We passed an hour IN exam
inins the big guns and. -saanop. embapk-
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