, 1892-08-23
AT OCEAN GROVE.
A Beautiful Place on the Pacific
County Beach.
Crowds of People at the summer
Resort of southwestern WASH
ingtOn--Fine Drives Facing tho
Ocean--BaImy weather.

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Ocean--BaImy weather.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune
LONG BEACH, Pacific county, Aug. 21.-
The new site, Ocean Grove, seven miles
north of Ilwaco, is undoubtedly a fine
place on this North Beach for summer
home. The front part has an elevation of
about fifteen feet above high tide, COM
manding a grand stretch of ocean, gradual
ly sloping back about 200 feet, where it
rises to another similar elevation with the
same outlook. 1t is, ! believe, the only
place on the beach where there is fresh
water lake three-fourths of a mile long,
400 or 500 feet wide, and only about 500
feet from the ocean. There are beautiful
building lots further back among the alder
groves, where one may find shelter, if de-
sirable, from both wind and sun. We re-
ceived CHEEKY invitation to dine at the
farm house of our milkman, and found
our fair-haired, fair-skinned hostess, his
wife, Notwithstanding her out-of-doors
work, was fashionable and intelligent, who
gave us much local information. She is a
Swedish woman who not only bakes, and
furnishes milk to the summer residents,
but assists her husband and sons at hav-
making, harvest gathering, gardening, or
whatever comes to hand within doors as
without. An organ, books, pictures, potted
plants, and canary in the cheerful front
room were guarantee that refinement of
taste was also not wanting. She took us a
walk through
A GROWTH so DENSE
that the sun could find no entrance at
midday, short but difficult cut through
the brush to the second ridge we were seek
1ngi and the large chestnut horse brought
us home as swiftly, but not more pluckily
than the little gray pony took us out. We
were gratihed with one days outing, and
equally so at having seen the location, of
which an acquaintance is the fortunate
owner, of the six front blocks; but it did
not occur to me till the present moment,
that the above could be construed into an
advertising puff. One of the cuuosities of
"IlnkersYllle," or more euphOniously,
Long Beach, is a house made of drift
wood, to all the tinishings without and fur
nlture within, even to fence and chimney,
built in imitation of the log-cabin mud
chimney, in order to complete the rustic
idea. 1t has a curOusly ornate effect, with
It's lattlce-wOrk trimmings of sticks and
twlgs, ingeniOusly interviewer, and is not
without an appearance of gargOyles even,
and decorative hgure-heads here and there.
Every cottage, tent, with occasionally an
lmproVlsed shed by way of shelter, is OF
has been filled with its quota of summer
residents, though the few hotels are not
doing, as understand, a thriving business
with lowered rates and a scarcity of in
mates. This has been another resplendent
day, and we rejOiced to make use of it in
accepting a neighbours invitation for q
drive OF twelve or thirteen miles.
ALONG THE BEACH
for three or four miles, where the thickest
of winter wraps would have been desirable
as a screen against the penetratingness OF
the strong northwest wind from there
across the peninsula, for all this beach
forms one side of long peninsula, to the
headwaters of ShOal Bay, formerly a ship.
ping port for oysters to the San Francisco
market, now sent by rail, and thence home
a driveway Of five or six miles through a
forest Of tall hemlOck and spruce, and a
beauty of underground of many varieties
and shades of green. Our route in going
took us through a portion of cranberry
marshes, of which it is said there are
thousands of acres, owned by one person
San Francisco lady. Only about twenty
acres at present are in cultivation, with q
prospect of yield of 1000 bushels, double
the amount gathered last year. So great is
the rage for bathing here that many were
in last evening so late as O'Clock, high
tide not serving until then, and seeing
them emerge in the damp, foggy atmos.
phere, with a chill wind blowing, itseemed
likely to resultin "a ruling passion, strong
In death, to some of them, as 1 thought.
THE BEACH WAS BLACK
with on-lookers this morning, in thespark.
ling morning sun, ourselves among them,
and the sea alive with heads bobbine
among the breakers. Tomorrow we intend
to take the daily stage, light, open, many
seated vehicle, with its four spanking bays
or grays may be, for a drive to Oysteryiile,
thirty miles there Ond back, that we may
see what the point of the peninsula is like
and how it looks out both on sea and bay.
The roll along the fine sand level as
floor, and uninterrupted by either cataract
or break will be inspiriting, if one can only
gather together garments sufficient for
warmth. The height of the sea shore will
soon be over now, varying from the first to
the middle Of September; then there are
those who come down as early as May and
lind May and June, October and at times
November, more genial even than July and
August. G. l.. H.