Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-03

moored some distance out IN the DAY,
and lifeline stretches from it to the
shore. The beach, as is well known, is
sand, and no better bottom for bathing
ground can possible be desired. 1t, In fact
constitutes the very ideal luxury of
bathing.
SCENERY, CLIMATE, ETC.
The surroundings of the new hotel are
rural altogether, and the energy of the
Pacific Improvement Company, which
owns the property, is leaving nothing un-
done that can add to the beauty and COM
pleteness of the place. A race-course,
croquet grounds, all kinds of arrangements
for games and sports of every sort, are being
prepared with the swiftness and thorough
ness which have marked every detail OF
the enterprise Flowers and shrubs have
been conveyed in pots to the grounds, and
there planted and attended SO carefully
that they have at once adapted them
selves 10 their new habitat. Palms
SIX feet high, orange trees in bloom, roses
in massive bushes, great beds of yaria-
gated and brilliant hued flowers, are among
the wonders which the modern Aladdins
Lamp has here produced. Even the grass,
though so recently sown, seems to have
partaken of the general push and energy,
and is spreading its carpet of green
velvet through the shady avenues between
the hoary old trees on every side. Shade
and repose and beauty and comfort meet
the eye wherever it is turned, in fact. 1t
is as whole really extraordinary proof of
what can be done in an incredibly short
favorable, and it is the more gratifying to
reflect that all this beauty and elegance
and thoughtful provision for the most
various tastes is for the benefit and use of
the public. Del Monte is a Peoples Pal
ace, in truth, and it has been so managed
that it must not only be but continue the
most fashionable and popular watering
place in the State.
| In addition to its claims upon Califor-
mans, however, the climate and surround
ings of Monterey offer special and import
ant advantages to strangers and invalids.
The temperature of the place is more
equable than that of any other part of the
coast Protected by the Bay of Monterey,
and by the Gabilan and Santa Cruz noun
/ tains, it is always mild and temperate.
The frequent fogs which roll in from the
ocean and top the neighboiing hills with
their misty wreaths, never descend to the
| level of the town, but merely serve to
temper the heat of the sun, and to add to
the gently bracing influences which rem.
der Monterey so healthful resort, as well
| in winter as in summer. As a winter re-
treat for Eastern invalids, indeed, nothing
better can be found on the continent, and
he must be peevish creature who could
not in the'hospitable and luxurious Hotel
Del Monte content himself throughout the
winter solstice.
The company is not combining its i'm
provements to the hotel and grounds IL
is rejuvenating Monterey and its vicinity
for miles in all directions. Already pleas
ant and sandless roads have been con-
structed almost to the Carmelo Valley, and
in a short time Cypress Point, the light
house ON Point Pinos, Point Lobos, the
| Shell Beach, and many other points of at
! traction in the neighborhood, will be
brought within easy reach 1t is needless
to say that these Improvements will add
greatly to the availability of the Pacific
head : center of peripatetic piety, but
which, we were recently informed by
venerable lady who was camping on the
ground, has suffered sensible fading of
it's religion "snce the railroad company
''bought it. 1t remains, however, a
most delightful resort for such as prefer
an al tre8co summer establishment, and it
is certain to recommend itself to the many
who dislike fashionable hotels because
they are supposed to be too monotonous
reproduction of the artificial life which it
is the aim of sensible people to get away
from when they go upon their summer
holiday.
No better place for children than Mon
terey exists. There is plenty of white sand
for them-and some of this, by the by, has
been ingeniously utilized by Mr.. Croker
in the hotel grounds, being put into large
tanks, in which the little ones can disport
all day if they so please-and when the
sands become monotonous there is an in
finite variety of delightful rocks. with con-
cealed treasures of shells and seaweed, and
brilliant sea anemones and star6sh, and
those curious marine hedgehogs called sea-
urchins. The alge of Monterey are many
of them extremely beautiful, and those
who have sounded the shell question to the
very bottom assert, with pardonable pride,
that there are two hundred and fifty dis
tinct varieties.
ASPECTS OF NATURE AND RELICS OF MAN.
Those who insist on beauty OF scenery
may be fully gratifed at Monterey. The
situation of the old town itself is charm
ingly picturesque, seated as it is on the
gentle slope of the hill, with the white
sanded beach at its feet ever receiving the
blue ripples of the bay, and the dark-green
forest rising behind it to the very SUBMITS
of its inclosing hills. But whose wishes
to see the very best the neighborhood al
fords must drive over these hills and
through the pleasant-scented woods. until
he comes once more upon the Pacific, and
the ineffable beauties of Carmel Bay steal
gently upon him. 1t is very jewel of
bay. Small, delicately turned, adorned
with the most dazzlingly white beach of