Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-28
TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A STORM AT
PACIFIC GROVE.
Rambling Remarks About the Beautiful
Resort on the Bay of Monterey
Some Facts and More Fancy.

Resort on the Bag of Monterey
Some Facts and More Fancy.
From an occasional correspondent of the Sun
DAY UNION.
There is nothing left to salt has all
been said. Ittakes an ingenious brain to sug
gest anything that does not demand quo
tation marks as big and glaring as harrow
teeth. The advertiser and the amateur writer
have drawn ON their Imagination until the
beauties of the place have become tiresome
to the reading public. Perhaps there may
have been something left unsaid about il
in its winter mood, and it is with this hope
that my sharpened Faber glideth.
That particular slice of California is the
suburbs of the Celestial City. There is a
breath of peace in the wooing breezes, and
the fragrance from the fiower-cups is like
holy incsnss. Struggled down cozily in a
wrap of warmest sunshine, she invites
Winter 10 do his worst. While the East
shiyers in the shrinking blasts and heavy
SHOWS, here we hack in the glorious
warmth from Heaven, and birds hold high
carnival. The air holds myriads of butter.
flies, and the sweet, drowsy atmosphere is
a balm to tired souls. The extravagancies
IN the floral kingdom are quite appalling.
Hedges Of Gala lilies that tower up to ones
head, pillars of golden bronze nasturtiums.
dense banks of purple heliotrope, wastes
OF lansies and violets, masses of marguer-
ties like heaven peopled with stars, banks
OF generous eaved geraniums bright with
blossoms, that respond to the touch Of
every passer-by with q cloud of fragrance
that clings and caresses with silent tender
ness.
They can have storm if they care to,
and just for the sake of variety the gates of
heaven open and down pours some
weather, for variety is the noblest work of
God, and rolling man gathers no moss.
The skies frowned and then they wept
The winds blew like mad, and bowling
and whistliDg they uprooted some of the
finest trees. The big drops battered un-
pityiDgly on every little fiower-crowned
corner, and disbanded many a flock of
yellow and brown butterflies; while the
streets ran in little gullies of quicksand
they were beaten to the earth and gasped
and fluttered their poor, useless little lives
away. The little blce bay that had behaved
so prettily for weeks, laying blue and calm
with broad paths across its bosom, or else
futtering a few white caps towards shore
seemed possessed of q demon, and the
fercest storm of the season was watched
by half the populace. The surface took on
the reflections of the lowering, angry sky,
and the tints were magnificent. Bands of
delicate violets and strips of greens, and
blues and puppies blended into the cold
sky. A piercing wind came hurrying down
among the pines, and as its fury increased
the waters grew tumultuous. A ragged
break in the clouds shed halo on the
heaving waters, but a black shadow was
dragged sullenly over the rift and the
night closed in with rain falling in small
singing drops. A great, green, CLASSY
mountain comes wallowing in, the winds
catch at its crest and fret it into white
faky plumes. 1t curls and falls with q
crash, and rolling onward spends itself
with fury on the jagged rocks. High,
high, column of spray dashes into the
air, stands a second and drops into q
seethlng, snowy bed. The other portion
moves on and throws its watery weight
on long, sloping beach. All along the
coast line the spray is dashed into tall
walls as white as alabaster. The wind
spins along over the huge waves and
throws clouds of vapor far onto the shore.
The strength is spent for q while the
waters ars calm; clear green, with lacy,
creamy covering of broken foam, dashed and
l.
restored, for out in the middle of the
bay there is an upheaval, and gathering
streng b: the curriers' come crashing in
again. Such a provoking climate In a
few DAYS the sun is bsaming as serenely as
if it had never had tear in its eye. fhe
trees drip. drip softly. the ground is lit
tered With pine needles, leaves and twigs.
Orderly level beaches are washed in uneven
channels, and bare, brown rocks are ex-
Tor hA tor hao
uprooted sill manner of treasures from
their fastenings in the deep. Moss backed
old crabs that have grown gray in the serv-
ice OF the sea king, that have scorned the
upper earth and air. now lie legless and
Inundated unable to scuttle sideways out
of the CLUTCHES of the haunting waves; 8
bunch of kelp is twisted and re twisted
like the snaky Medusa locks; a handful
of long, green sea grass, the tresses of some
mermaid, lies within reach of the lazy
waves, and licking up, they lift the long
locks, and receding leave them strewn on
the sands. The life of poor little sea bir6
has been beaten out on the rocks, and il is
tossed almost out of reach and theI
dragged down into the depths. Monde
script drift is stacked in all the the singles
and at the line OF soapy bubbles the las
wave left are rare tinted shells and brown
ish-red MOSES. The little boat that brok,
RWdJ from Qer tuOOItEES dlu went GdGCluE
along, coquetting with winds and waves
oarless aud rudderless had her gaudy
little self battered into splinters on the pitt
less crsgs, and a few red and yellow silver;
and much banged about pleca of boarS
bearing the legend, GLADYS, is all that j:
left of the disconnected little truant. Th,
waters eucroached on the banks of rict
black loan, and the fieshy stems of tn,
luxuriant night-shade, with the deadly
berries and beautiful blossoms ARE threshe(
and bruised, and thrown into manglet
mass.
The city of Monterey is having her street.
graded. They need it. you are thinking
Some of the principal streets were mer,
garbage dumps and they stand On edge
too. The precipitous crags that stood il
lieu of sidewalks, the pools of limpid wate
embroidered with rusty cans and castaway
clothing, the roaring cataracts in winte
are to be things of the past. Work is il
progress on the erection of the Junipert
Sierra monument. A switch from the maiI
road is being laid to convey the materia
up the hill. tits on the hill overlooking tht
bay. where the ruins of the adobe fort are
1t Is to be unveiled the coming February
and the new street car line will then b,
completed from the Del Monte grounds t.
the statue.
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wrapped in a winter mantle. The frcst ha.
laid its blighting fingers on some OF tn,
flowers and they look sorry. Many ar,
blooming as happily as if they reveled in {
June day. The lake has been robbed of it,
child-en-the bcats-and the waters loot
icy and sulien. The little new chapel i.
one OF the freakiest freaks of the freaky
freak-the prettiest and cutest thing i'm
aginable. How any ones thinking an
paratus, however well tinctured with pietv
could preserve decorous attitude amid til,
quips and qIirks of these surroundings
cannot apprehend. The mellow click of !
croquet ball falls on the air once in while
and looking down the vista a few Chimes
are moving with snail-like speed, engaged
in raking leaves. Simply this and nothin,
more.
A few days ago in Monterey lady en-
tered telegraph, Office and sent a Telegram
to her husband in San Francisco, instruct
ing him as TO banner for Sunday-school
as she had been appointed to see to it. Tn
message ran thus:
Unto Us child is born four feet wild
and eight feet long. MARY