St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-25

| A PACIFIC COAST RESORT WHERE THERE
IS NO HEAT IN SUMMER, OR COLD IN
WINTER.
correspondence of the Caledonian.l
MONTEREY, CAL, July Is, 1889.
Come with me to view the very per
fection of a watering place, spot
where the temperature is so equable
that six degrees marks the variation of
the means of January and July. If we
start from San Francisco, as is most
likely, we ride I25 miles over a splen-
didly equipped road, the northern di-
vision of the Southern Pacific, and
through one of the richest and most
productive regions of California, the
picturesque Santa Clara valley. San
Mateo, Belmont, MenlO Park and other
places where San Francisco million
aires have their::country seats conven-
lent to the city, and also the handsome
cities of Santa Clara and San Jose, are
passed through on the way, and when
near the latter, the traveller looks out
upon the hills where the Almaden and
Guadaloupe quicksilver mines are sit
uated. Thirty miles south of San Jose
is GilrOy, the centre of an important
: agricultural district where butter is
, one of the staple products. On reach
ing Monterey, which is done i'll the
short space of three hours by an eX-
press train, the traveller finds himself
at the southeast extremity of the
beautiful inland reach of the Pacific
known as Monterey bay, with small
and sleepy town occupying the adja
cent slopes. Monterey was formerly
place of considerable mercantile i'm
4 portance, and also the capital of the
old Spanish province, but ships, ira
ders and governors have all departed,
and the town would scarcely be heard of
by the outside world nowadays but for
; the presence of the new and magniti-
cent Hotel del Monte. The building
of this establishment was an enterprise
of the railroad managers and was car
ried out two years ago. The hotel Is
situated about half mile from the
town in grove of mammoth oaks,
b. pines, cedar and cypress. The trees
. are scattered so that there is sufficient
l. space for gardens, walks and avenues !;
l. and such gardens, such walks, and
i. such avenues Between forty and
; fifty gardeners are kept constantly EN-
y ployed, and the whole tract blossoms
i as the rOse-or as a million roses. The
hotel tract proper comprises LOG acres,
but the company owns altogether over
seven thousand acres, and through this
extensive range eighteen or twenty
miles of roads have been built. The
= hotel is in the prevailing style of mod
n ern Gothic, with three floors, broad
veranda's in front and towers, but
Al bears very little resemblance either i'll
2r outward design or interior arrangement
to watering place public houses i'll
nj general. A scrupulOus neatness and
I'd cleanliness pervades everything, in
doors and out. The rooms are lofty,
m spacious and airy, and there is an alb
y, sence of many of the elements which
serve to make the average eastern
on hotel uncomfortable, especially fol
in IL, are intended for ladies as well as gen
l tlemen, and there is even a ladies' bill
lizard room, where the presence of the
fair sex is preventative of bolster
- -H,-is .nrt n
. the other. The gentlemen have theil
ce bar, smoking room and bowling alley
in another part of the grounds, but the
latter is given over as much to the
%. ladies as to the lords of creation. The
e, visitor gains the impression that ht
IT has reached some elegant country
house belonging to some nabOb of tn,
- land who possesses rare taste as wei
as enormous wealth.
The bathing beach is quarter of {
mile away, and partly between the
D. town and the hotel The sand is whit,
ng and hard, the very perfection of bath
ey ing beach, and the outlook across tn,
..s beautiful blue waters is exceedingly
fine. Here, too, art has been brough
in to supplement nature. AS the watel
in the surf may at times he too chilly
for comfortable bathing, enormous
8. tanks have been built beneath capa
ciOus pavilion, into which 10000 gal
Ions of sea-water can be pumped ant
heated to any required temperature
There are great swimming tanks three
four, five and six feet deep, heated t.
different degrees of warmth. Thel
there are bath-tubs holding three hun
dred gallons, and two hundred dress
is ing-rooms. This palatial bathing es
, tablishment cost S75,OOO. The pump
. ing machinery had to be designed es
U pecially for it, as there are not Ordinar
uses for such powerful mechanism. Al
D. together, the best bathing house is til
most luxurious thing of the kind i
America, if not in the world.
- Having enjoyed ramble about th
grounds and our royal bath, we wi
old take drive down the coast. Her
en- again ample provision has been mad
for visitors. A dozen may go at one
= in large and comfortable vehicle, j
form like the Yosemite palace coaches
little parties of three, four, five or ha
u dozen may be formed with turn-oI