The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-06-17
CALIFORNIA SUMMER RESORTS.



s Seaside resorts are not so numerous upon
the Pacific coast as on the Atlantic, partly
because the country is SO much less thickly
settled and partly because the great mass of
the inhabitants are newcomers, whose en-
ergies, thus far, have been given to making
home, and who have had no time for
pleasuring. However, some few settlements
by the sea have been visited during the
summer months for many years by those
who wished for sea mir and bathing, and
every season sees the opening of new vii.
lage by the sea. The time is not far dis.
tant when the exodus of people from the in
terror to the coast during the heated term
will be quite as general here as on the other
side of the Continent.
Santa Monica is one of the Oldest coast
towns in Los Angeles county Ten years
ago it doomed. Vessels came into its little
harbor and it fondly hoped to become the
seaport for the city of Los Angeles. Just
why 1t did not is hard to tell, but some
town had stronger influence, and Santa
Monico was left in the lurch. To day its
principal industry is entertaining summer
visitors. Not that people do not come here
in the winter. During the warm, pleasant
winter days the morning train from Los
Angeles is filled with those to whom q
breath of sea air or q plunge in the surf
seems enticing In midwinter. And, in fact,
sea bathing goes on all the year round, the
water OF the Pacific being quite as warm in
winter as in summer. The closed cottages
d the summer residents are surrounded
with almost as many beautiful flowers then
as when their owners came to take posses
sion in summer Climbing roses, hanging
full OF blossoms, cover the porches. The
geranium hedges are one mass of bloom.
Fuchsias and lilies, heliotropes and lantanas
and wilderness or other Towering plants
waste their sweetness on the desert air"
through the winter in Santa Monica, run
ming riot in luxuriance of bloom and growth,
while those for whose pleasure they bios
som are indulging in the pleasures of the
town.
high, PERCEPTIONS cliff separates Santa
Monica from the sandy beach. Flights Of
stairs at intervals along the cliff, with here
and there zigzag trail, lead down its face,
and at still longer distances carriage drive
may now and then be found The distance
from point to point on the beach of Santa
Monica bay is thirty miles, and this one
little hamlet is the only settlement on its
shore. II Is facts like these that convey to
ones mind correct ideas of the yastness of the
great west. The mountain ranges run down
to the coast, the canons opening ON the
beach, in some instances SO closely that the
tide flows into them. The old Santa Monica
canon opens upon the beach two miles
above the bathouse of the railroad company.
directly south of the town. There are
fine ranches and comfortable dwellings, in
canons owned by the Spaniards.
1t is beautiful sight in the summer tc
see the tents on Santa Monica beach. Fancy
o hundred or more of these temporary homes
Nesting close under the cliff, the bathers
In their many colored costumes sporting in
the surf, the waves rolling in, groups of chill
dren playing in the sand. II is small won
der that the townspeople rush down to the
sen as soon as the schools set the children
at liberty, or that they I" fold their tents
with reluctance when the summer is over
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