Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-08-09
WOMAN AT The SEASIDE.
Sensible Suggestions and
Lively LucubrationS by our
Newport Correspondent,
WALLENcAMP. Aug,

element will run higher here. a!
1t is, our day is made up of eating
a siesta, a ramble, comparing notes
with each other on returning home
reading the JOURNAL and going t'
bed. We have a fire to retire aud
to get up 10y, and it's not too warn
at that, tho some of the cold-feeteC
Wallencampers talk Of fixing uI
foot warmers to take to bed with
them 1t does grow surprisingly
cool here every night.
OLssON's ADDITION
TO Newport is settling up quite rap
dly with tents and cottages. II
faces the bay and looks to south and
.ast, so enjoys great deal of shelter
rom the rough northwest breeze
hat blows at times. The pretty
iouble view Of water over the blue
oay and out upon the white-waved
Pacific, is a constantly changing
me, with shifting winds and tides
All kinds of craft ply the bay; rude
rec canoes of Indians; row ard sal
)oats, schOoners, ferry and Califor.
lia packet. Thousands of sea gulls
,cream and rest on the sandbars at
low tide. Crows fit along the shore
and alight now and then to pick up
IN oyster or shellfish. Capt. OILS
son and his wife and son live in a
modest mansion in the midst of u
graded and nicely fenced block right
lown on the bay. The proprietor is
I we'll preserved Swedish sailor and
pioneer Of Yaquina bay. He has
sailed to all parts of the world,
fought his way through life by hard
roads, as river decker, fisherman,
FISHERMAN, pilot, cook and any
honest way to make a dollar, and
now in his prime enjoys a compe
tence, and his addition to Newport
IS selling at 5000 to $1,000 a lot and
will make him rich man. Women
admire man who brings success by
honest effort and hard work as ht
has done. His wife is delightful
old fashioned Sw edish lady aud hai
given us carte-blanche of her flint
Vegetable garden.
CLAM DIGGERs.
Below our cottage is a clam bank
where at low tide the Siletz Indiar
women come to dig CLAIMS. Eacl
has a wickerwork basket on he
back, and If she digs for three hour
she keeps it on her back, when ther'
may be from fifty to one hundred
pounds of the scallopped, spicy hi
valves in it. They work with {
stick, wading in up to their middle
aud when they strike clam with
their bare feet, down goes Mrs. Lo
head foremost to the bottom of the
bay for the treasure. They work
hard to get them aud they know
their market value. You connot
fool an Indian woman out of q
penny, the chances are she will beat
you at a bargain every time. 1t
seems our commercial instincts are a
relic Of slvagery.
A MOONLIGHT sERENADE
was t:eat at our cottage the other
night, and although the man of the
house was snoring off his clam
chowder, we were awake and heard
every one of the soft, sweet strains.
The party might have all had their
names in print, as they We're Salem
girls who saluted the drowsy ears of
your correspondent There were
Misses Dearborn, Northup and
Carr at least, ms | learned afterward,
a gentleman guitarist and several
other sweet singers. The serenad-
ers were not partial hut favored all
the neigh0ors, aud they were the
recipients ofnumerous compliments,
besides several messes of fish, bas-
kets of clans and one admirIug
hearer sent the house big load of
fresh vegetables.
A RARE PICTURE.
II the negative had not been brok-
EN-, a certain amateur photographer
lwho ought to be hung is ia pos
session by this time ofa rare and GU
rious scene on the sands that will
probably not be carried out zen tab
leau' again very soon. Our party
had wandered down pretty near to
Jump on, and in the shelter of
the rock Were quietly taking our
ease, rs there were no gentlemen
along. Some of MS were lying Hat
ON the sand, some had shoes offand
were wading in the shallow pools of