Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

were thrown into the flame, Ione after another,
the chicken was carried btck into the barn
and the ceremony was oker. One OF the
younger Cinnamon explained to US that
what we had witnessed had been done to
concilia.e the gods. ''We workee to-day.
Long (wrong). 'Ligioss holiday. Now
allie lightee (right)."
THE WONDERFUL clzs1ATE.
One of the greatest advantage. of Port
land as place Of residence is that one can
stay there all the year round, aslthere are
very few days, in the summer when Il e ther-
mometer rises high enough to make one un-
comfortable, while the winter climaIs is
similar to that of Virginia. When a Jew
successive warm days do come, howevrr,
the Portlanders have a most fascinatibi
variety of excursions to choose from. Pic
mic boats go up the Columbia river every
day to visit the Cascades or the Multnomah
or Latourelle Falls. Others go down the
river to Astoria and the sea. Mount Hood
can De reached in a few hours, and hotel
has been built near the great glacier, where
fans are never demanded. Portland is 100
miles from the sea, yet it has three seaside
resorts, accessible by rail or boat, which are
much irequented in July and August, less
because the city is considered uncomiorta-
BILE than because all residents on the Pacific
coast seem TO have passion for camping out
a few weeks each year.
In selecting seaside resort on the Pacific
coast the most important consideration,
next to good beach, is protection from the
cold winds which often make even the sum-
mer months chilly. Shoalwater Bay is
famous oyster ground, and the bivalves,
together with mud CLANS and razor clans,
are daily caught. These oysters are small,
and inferior in favor to Eastern oysters.
Grabs and tish in great variety are also to
be had for trife, but the popular way at
Long Beach, one OF the famous resorts, is to
eaten them yourself When the tide re-
cedes, some crabs, as big as fresh water
turtles, are always left in the hollows of the
beach, where they can be easily caught.
WHEN SPORT RUNS HIGH.
But once every month there are several
mornings when the tide recedes about a half
a mile, and then the sport becomes lively.
Every body is out with poles and large sacks,
in which the crabs are packed and afterward
gathered in by wagons. Another kind Of
sport peculiar to this region is gathering in
the large hake (25-pounders), which, in
their eager pursuits OF sardines, are occa-
sionally caught by the breakers and cast
ashore, where they can be gathered in by
hundreds. Larger fish. too, are often cast
ashore. among them ten-foot sturgeon and
large salmon with big hole in the side.
The seal which abound in this region have a
destructive and abominable habit of taking
some favorite tidbit out of the salmon and
then leaving them to die. These dead fish
on the beach have to be carefully covered
with sand, or else they become q maIodor-
Gus nuisance.
In the evening the scene along the beach
is rendered brilliant by numerous bonfres
fed with logs that are scattered along the
beach in countless numbers. These logs are
brought down the Columbia during the
high water season, and deposited along the
beach for miles each way. Some of them, in
fact have been carried to distant islands in
the Pacific. They supply the campers with
plentiful fuel, end no one objects to the
wasteful bonfires because the stock is re-
plenished every year. During storms this
driftwood adds unique element Of grandeur
to the scene, the huge logs being tossed
about like straws by the angry waves; now
lifted up straight as trees and again dashed
against each other with a thud which is
heard above the roar of the breakers.
ONE HOUR A DAY TO BATTLE.
Long Branch is place where even a vic
tim of insomnia will sleep 10 hours every
night and still yawn al day. But as bath
ing place it has its advantages. Bathing on
the North Pacific is a different thing from
bathing IN the New Jersey coast The
waves are so rough-positively rude the
ladies say-and the under tow SO strong,
that there is only one hour each day when
bathing IS safe and enjoyable. This hour
varies of course, daily with the tide, and a
bell is rung 10 announce it. Immediately
hundreds of campers who have put on
their bathing suits in their tents rush
into the waves, but few of them stay
IN more than 20 minutes, as the
water, even on a summer afternoon, is
rarely warm enough to make longer stay.
That it is perilous to go into the water at
any other than the official hour announced
BY the bell is proved by the sad case of a
young lady, wellknown heiress, who lost
her life here few years ago. She was en-
gagged to a young man, whom she asked one
day to accompany her into the water when
the tide was going out. Of course, he fatty
whereupon she was piqued and in
vited another young man, who foolishly
complied with her request They entered
The breakers, when suddenly the young lady
disappeared under the waves and was never
seen again. Although large sum was Of
fered for the recovery of her body it was
never found, and it is possible that it was
1evoured by sharks, for these fish are occa-
,ionally seen here, though there is no danger
near shore, and the noise made by the
FATHERS is said to frighten them away.
HENRY T. FINCK.