The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-16
DELIGHTS OF The SURF.
BATHING AT NEWPORT AND
SANTA MONICA.
The Southern Californian Paradise
Daily Life at HOmburg-
Newport Notes.

That portion OF California to which
one OF the APPEAL staff has just gone,
aud which he will make Dis future
home, must be a lovely spot, according
to all accounts. A gentleman who re-
Gently made trip to Los Angeles
says: ga lbs Angeles orange fresh
from the tree is luscious beyond power
Of expI essioD. Purchased in the stalls
cf Los Angeles markt they are tough,
dry and tasteless. Much experience
taught the visitors this difference, and
now there is vague suspicion in ex-
istence that the finer varieties are
shipped to the Eastern markets, while
a comparatively worthless sort is kept
for home consumption. In several
days experience there were but rare
exceptions to the rule that purch ased
oranges were OF very inferior sort,
While those presented direct fr2m the
tree were Of as fine a quality ss could
be asked for. Entering Pasadena by
Orange Grove avenue one facfs the
north wall of the famous San Gabriel
Valley, and the contrast between the
dark g'etn that fl DDS the level bottom
at the foo. and the faces Of the lefty
rugged peaks OF sombeI brown is
very great, and impretsively marks
the valley as one of the garden spots of
the South. AS far rs the eye can reach
from the elevated points in the vicin-
ty, there is scarcely an acre OF arabic
land that is not uDGer cultivation aud
covered with bright green trees, whose
freshness remains, Notwithstanding
the dust and heat of the long summer.
Then the orange trees are
in full bloom, the air is fresh from the
rains and peifumed from the flowers,
bees are buZziDg, birds singing, the
dust is laid, and all the ct ceteras Of q
lovely semi-tropic climate are ready
for the visitors.
The following days the visitors d.
vided among the seaside resorts Of
Santa Monica and Long Be Oh, the
latter lying ON the San Pedro and Viii
miugton road, which are the shipping
ports Ct this section. Santa Monica
has stretch Of beach ard surf that
would drive the fashionables OF the
East wild with delight were they to
possess them. For miles and miles
there is strip Of soft, white sand,
on which the breakers tumble in
froliCsome glee, end with pro.
found contempt for the efforts
put forth by the puny motals within
their grasp to maintain an upright po-
sition. The beach has width OF
from 100 to 800 yards, and is backed
by perpendicular bluff fifty or sixty
feet in hight. The entire beach is
lined with tents during the summer,
and they do not add to its beauty by
any means.
Santa Monica is on the plateau back
Of the edge OF the bluf,an is pretty,
tree-embowered little place in quiet
sort of way. Its morals are excellent
and will probably continue so until
next season, when an immense new
hotel is to open its doors and the town
will bid for patronage as fashionable
summer resort. One thing people are
Chary OF all down the Southern coast,
and that Is their breeze. Life would
be mora enduIable and less dan
ger from exploding thermometers
were the Pacifc's zephyrs al
lowed to penetrate inland to
reasonable distance. They are not,
however, and half a mile from shore
the air is as still rs if there we're no
ocean TO kick up breeze within a
rifle shot. Santa Monica's bathing
suits are principally donned on Sun
day, when three excursion trains are
run from Los Angeles, and hundreds
and hundreds Of both sexes tumble in
the surf in an effort to store enough
GOODNESS in their baked carcRsses to
last through the week.