The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-08-03

MoSrrmT. car.. July 2lsi, 1851

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/ when | last wrote You
dated from Sky land, on The top OF the
Deleetable Mountains. nov / am low in
the valley, bat not in the Valley Of Humil-
iatiop, as might be supposed. Rather
this is the Happy Valley, famous in the
old tale OF RaSselas. Pleasant indeed is
the combination OF mountain and
vale aud waye-w washed coast which
makes our golden state like Palestine, a
goodly land wherein to dwell
This year We decided to made our an
nual pleasure exertion' a coasting expe-
dition and Monterey our uliimatum. The
South Pacific, H. r., Co.. have bought a
good tract OF land lying along the bay of
Monterey, aud have converted it into a
vast picnic and camp ground. Then by
Offering low fares, free transportation for
camping equipments, and every possible
inducement in the way Of accommodations
and conyeniencos at the end Of the route
they have worked up an immense amount
of summer travel setting in this direction.
Moreover for twenty years Monterey has
been the location Of great camp meetings
held by the Methodist Church OF Califor-
MIA and the ground was already well know
and appreciated. The II. r., corporation
| is Immensely rich and even where nature
has done her utmost TO make spot lovely
and attractive the assistance Of art backed
by capital is not to be despised. So here we
have combination Of beauty and comfort.
The II, H., Co., have built, in the midst
OF great park-like grove Of live oaks, a
summer hotel which they call "Del
Monte" whole letter might be written
about II but OF course / must be very
brief. 1t isa unique building of Elizi
bethan architecture and looks more like an
ideal nobleman's castle than like modern
hotel Its gables and turrets, towers and
pinnaeles CLEAN through the trees like a
fairy palace. Piazzas twenty feet wide
with carved columns Of airy lightness sur
round the entire building and then come,
the flower vases, geraniums, fuchsias
cacti, in gorgeous array; wide, green lawns
with beds OF brilliant hued colors scatter
ed about, or green borders with small
flowers planted so as to spell names or
notices; tropical shrubs and vines and
every quaint and beautiful device carried
out with lavish expenditure-this is Del
Monte. And here come the wealth and
fashion and beauty of San Francisco
and all Califoruia-le beau moade-to dis
play and disport itself not only in summer,
but all winter. for in Monterey the tenn
perature is quite mild in winter as in sum
mer. They play croquet and lawn tennis,
they sit on the broad piazzas or under the
trees with their books and gay worsteds;
and every morning they go down to the
great bath house on the beach, and take
plunge in the sea or in the great tanks. OF
heated sea water which bave been con-
structed at an immense expense. The
building containing them is entirely coy.
cred with glass and is warmed with steam.
II cost $4,000 believe.
This is all at old Monterey, but we Of
Pacific grove are another sort of folks. The
more sensibler" kind as a certain wise
little girl once said; aud there is a saying
which may have grain of truth in it tina
one sees finer clothes ut Del Monte but
hears better English at the grovel The
| grand hotel is two miles from us. Now
| for the grove, it is forest of frs stretch
| ing for miles along the coast; among them
are old giants gnarled an.i broken and halt
dead, beautiful young trees of perfect
symmetry aAd slender little lady pines
green AS emerald aud fairly btnt over with
| the weight Of their clustered needles. The
| ground is covered with IA thieh bed Of
these leaves but cue has only to scrape
away q few inches OF the debris 10 come
upon white sea suad. The trees grow
down TO the very edge of the cliffs over
| hanging the sea, though there are many
charming little beaches below the cliffs
where not hing grows, and where one can
always find beautiful sea mosses and shellsf
or delicate bright hued pebbles worn to
smoothness and polished 10 brilliancy by
the ever busy waves. All through the
grove and along the coast, wherever .
| footholJ can be obtained, some one has
| ''piiched his moving tent" or built for
himself al eyrie Of some sort for brief
summer abode. The picturesqueness OF the
whole scene cannot be overdrawn. The
tents are mostly white though blue stripes
are in vogue almost as much. They are oil
every conceivable size and shape. conical,
square, oblong; with pointed roofs or fiat as
the house tops in Syria. large enough for
two or three families or hardly bigger than
an umbrella OF course II never rains, so
one only needs them for sleeping aud eat.
| ing. scarcely, Tor the latter save for our
Anglo Sax9a reserve and love OF privacy.
| The cottages many Of them are quite ele-
CANT, graceful 10 architecture aud gay with
brilliant bued paint. Red roofs aud trim
mings are quile the fashion. Other houses
however are mere cabins built OF rough
red wood boards aud With no attempt at
ornament Everything looks picturesque
here 10 the good green wood. ?"
There is a large restaurant, chapel, gro
Gerry store, market, and scores OF neat
cottages with rooms to let singly or in
suits, owned 10y the X. Il. Go. AT the res
iaurani hundreds are daily boarded, but
most Of US keep house, ia a rather free and
easy fashion yet by no means IN discom.
fort Our tent lie the same one | describ-
cd at skylapd blue and white striped
ctntb xuraaA over n frame Weuty feet long