Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-08-30
BY THE SEA SHORE.
A Cool and Refreshing Retreat---HOw
the Summer LOitererS En-
plOy Themselves.

The summer crowd ut this pleasant
resort is thinning out. Forty persons
left the Bay View house one day
last week, and the Ocean House is
not filed. Private boarding houses
have been much sought for this
season, as the hotels are often un-
comfortably full. The cloth parti-
tiOns and thin walls of some of the
boarding houses, however, make
the old gentleman who gets sick in
the night from eating too much
crab, and the baby who cries from
hives, unpleasant neighbors to the
delicate woman who comes here to
benefit her health, and seeks in
private boarding house to escape the
noisy hotel. The great need of this
place, to make it a popular leso, t, is
more good boarding places. Another
hotel which would be little out of
the main street and nearer the north
beach would, we are sure, if well
conducted, pay well during three or
four months of the year We find
it hard to realize that there is hot
weather anywhere, we have it
delightfully."- cool here. Fire is
pleasant every night.
Bonfires on the beach, around !
which the young people gather and |
sing songs, and old people tell |
stories and talk politics and gossip, |
are among the pleasantest ways of
passing the evenings for the campers.
Sea bathing is, of course, the great
entertainment for young and old.
There is a new and recherche bath
house on the Nye creek beach, with !
stove and basins of running spring |
water, fitted up quite tastefully with |
rustic, wave-worn clothes-hooks !
and ornaments. 1t is quite retired |
and convenient for any who prefer
a more private bathing place than
the one west of town. President |
Ellis, of Pacific university, is camped |
at Big Tree creek, with some Forest
Grove friends, and Professor Ed
wards of the same school, took a
cottage the lst of June and has
been here even since, Miss Adams,
dean of the P. U. ladies hall, is
with them. Clyde Cooke is making
studies of sand, waves and rocks,
that may anpear i'm larger work in |
the future. Miss Morgan, of Port
land, has made some very pleasant
studies in oil nf riuv'=s about the
BAY. a,ra amateurs are sketching
and painting among the sand hills
and stunted pines and spruces.
Five or six young ladies from
Eugene occupy q cottage on the
hill back of Newport, and are said
to be merry crew on land. Pro-
fessor Condor, of Eugene, with his
wife and three daughters, have
spent about two months in his
cottage on Nye creek. His twin
daughters paint from nature, and
one of them is engaged in reproduc-
ing one of those clear little pools
framed with barnacles and sea-
anemones, which every one who
has seen has admired. Walking
trips to the lighthouse are very
fashionable here for those young ,
people who are daring enough, and
strong enough to undertake them.
Accompany of six went over the |
hill and along the beach one day ,
last week, over five miles, with
one short stop at Big Tree creek,
and made a day Of it at the cape.
They were shown up the black iron
stairs of the lighthouse tower that is '
always so "spick and span" inside, '
and the funny young man Of the t
being impressed by the O
fOrmality and silent sOlemnity, c
called back to the girls in a stage .
whisper, as he followed the light.
view the eorpse.h Several we'll
known young men Of Salem are
here, mail carriers and clerks, etc, 4
but not many Salem girls have we d
seen this summer. G
Many new people are here from a
Albany, Eugene, Salem and t
Corvallis. Butter Is scarce. Huckle- {
berries are getting ripe and 80 are .
We, If plumpness and BROWNIES p
b. VIC. n