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 Bay of Monterey
Some Facts and More Fancy.
From an occasional correspondent of the SUI
DAY UNION.
There is nothing left to sa-v-it has a
been said. Ittakes an ingenious brain to su,
gest anything that does not demand QUO
tation marks as big and glarlng as harro,
teeth. The advertiser and the amateur write
have drawn on their Imagination until th
beauties of the place have become tiresom
10 the reading public. Perhaps there ma
have been something left unsaid abour
In its winter mood, and it is with this hon
that my sharpened Faber glideth.
That particular slice of California is tn
suburbs of the Celestial City. There is ;
breath OF peace in the wooing breezes. ant
the fragrance from the fiower-cups is lik,
holy incsnse. Struggled down cozily in ,
wrap of warmest sunshine, she invite,
Winter TO do his worst. While the Eas
shivers in the shrinking blasts and heavv
SHOWS, here we bask in the elorious
warmth from Heaven, and birds hold high
carnival: The air holds myriads of butter.
mes, and the sweet. drowsy atmosphere is
. PAIN 70 ilred souls. The extravagancies
IN the floral kingdom are quite aopalliny
Hedges of calla lilies that tower up to ONES
head, pillars of golden bronze nasturtiums,
dense banks of purple helioirope. wastes
OF fansies and violets, masses of marguer-
ties like heaven peopled with stars. banks
OF generous-leave geraniums bright with
blossoms, that respond to the touch of
every .passer-by with cloud of fragrance
that clings and caresses with silent tender
ness.
Ihey can have storm if they care to.
and just tor the sake of variety the gates of
heaven open and down pours some
Weather, Tor 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 pattered un.
pityingly on every little fiower.crowued
corner, and disbanded many a flock of
yellow and brown butterflies; while the
streets ran in little eullies of quicksand
they were beaten TO the earth and gasped
and tiuttered their poor, useless little lives
away. The little blre bay that had behaved
so prettily for weeks, laying blue and calm.
with broad paths across its bosom, or else
fiuttering few white caps towards shore,
seemed possessed of a demon. and the
hercest 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 purples 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 black shadow was
dragged sullenly over the rift and the
night closed in with rain falling in small
stinging drops. A great, green, CLASSY
mountain comes wallowing in, the winds
catch at its crest and fret it into white
haky plumes. 1t curls and falls with a
crash. and rolling onward, spends itself
with fury on the jagged rocks. High,
high, column of spray dashes into the
air, stands second and drops into a
seethlng, snowy bed. The other portion
moves on and throws its wetery weight
on long, sloping beach. All along the
coast line the spray is lashed 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 while the
waters ars calm; clear green, with lacy,
creamy covering of broken foam, lashed and
GSO0i 6cu va tuC LUCAS SdCG Is uOl
restored, for oat in the middle of the
bay there is an upheaval, and gathering
streng b; the curriers' come crashing in
again. Such provoking climate, In a
few DAYS the sun is beaming as serenely as
if it had never had tear in its eye. The
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-
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uprooted sil 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 scorped the
upper earth and air, now lie legless and
Inundated, unable to scuttie sideways out
of the clutcLes of the taunting waves: a
bunch of kelp is twisted and re twisted
like the snaky Medusa locks; 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 en-
the sands. The life of q poor little sea bird
has been beaten out on the rocks, and it is
tossed almost out of reach and then
dragged down into the depths. Monde
script drift is stacked in all the the angles,
and at the line of soapy bubbles the last
wave left are rare tinted shells and brown
ish-red MOSES. The little bost that broke
away from her ruoorirgs and went dancing
along, coquetting with winds and waves,
oarless and rudderless had her gaudy
little self battered into splinters on the pitt.
less crags, and few red and yellow siivers
and much banged about piece of board
bearing the legend "Giadvs" is all that Is
lett OF the discontented little truant The
waters eucroached on the banks of rich
black loan, and the feshy stems of the
luxurisnt night-shade, with the deadly
berries and beautiful blossoms, are threshed
and bruised, and thrown into a mangled
mass.
The city of Monterey is having her streets
graded. They need it, you are thinking.
Some OF the principal streets were mere
garbage dumps, and they stand on edge, |
too. The precipitous crags that stood in !
lieu OF sidewalks, the pools of limpid water |
embroidered with rusty cans and castaway |
clothing the roaring cataracts in winter |
are to be things of the past. Work is in |
progress on the erection of the Junipero |
Sierra monument. A switch from the main |
road IS being laid to convey the material |
up the hill. tits on the hall overlooking the \
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 be /
completed from the Del Monte grounds to
the statue
~ A'iOtA'C iooAo lObciy anu lOllOrQ-9Il
wrapped in a winter mantle. The frcst has
LAID Its blighting fingers on some OF the
flowers and they look sorry. MANY are
blooming as happily as if they reveled in a
June day. The lake has been robbed of its
chiioren-he boats-and the waters look
ICY ana suilen. The little new chapel is
one OF the freskiest freaks of the freaky
freakIthe prettiest and cutest thing inn.
aglnable. How any ones thinking an.
paratus, however well tinctured with pietv
could preserve deoorous attitude amid ti,e
quips and qlirks of these SURROUNDINGS
cannot apprehend. The mellow click Of a
croquet ball falls on the air once in a while
and looking down the vista a few Chinese
are moving With snail-hke speed, engaged
in raking leaves. Simply this and nothing
mere.
few days ago in Monterey LADY en-.
tered telegraph, office and sent telegram
to her husband in San Francisco, instruct
ing him as to banner for a Sunday-school.
as she had been appointed to see to it. The
message ran thus:
Unto US child is born four feet wide
and eight feet long. MAsY.n