, 1892-08-22
AT LONG BEACH.
Crowds Of People at the Pacific
County Resort.

summer HeSlAnR Place Tor the
Little Ones and the Busy PeO-
PIe-BeautIes of the Beach and
the surf Bathing.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
LONG BEACH, Pacific county, Wash,
Aug. 2O.-The fine steamer Ocean Wave,
of Portland, makes direct communication
three times a week with the railway at
Ilwaco for the various resorts along this
splendid beach of twenty or twenty-five
miles, said to be unsurpassed for level
smoothness in the country, and by en-
thusiasts reckoned one of the finest in the
state, if not in the world. Having VISITED
not more than half a dozen foreign or do
mestic beaches cannot pronounce on
this point, but can say so far as my own
observation goes, for uninterrupted con-
tinuity it is unexcelled as course for
driving, riding, walking and bicycling.
The other daily boats run to Astoria, con-
Meeting thence by tug with nwaco. The
Saturday night boat brings down its humid
reds for recreation, exhileration and bath
ing on the following days. Leaving Olym-
pia at 1890 p. m. we reached Portland
about 6:30, went directly on board the
Ocean Wave, and were there dOmiciled for
the night in one of the sizeable "family
rooms" with its comfortable beds, chairs
and tables, and with three good windows
opening riverward, ready for our start at
a. m. the next morning and in advance of
the other 100 passengers we carried with
US. Between Ilwaco and Oysterville the
ultima Thule" of this beach, the train
halts at the various resorts of Sea View,
Centerville and Long Beach.
OUR RESTING PLACE,
for the present, Tioga, Ocean Grove, Sea
Breeze, Ocean Park, with its annual camp
meeting, where this month 5000 visitors, it
is said, were gathered and from
thence on through numerous other
to be town and city sites, to
Sealand, some six miles this side of Oys.
terville, the limit of the coast railway,
whence by steamer or tug acrosss Shoal-
water bay connection is made to the north
with Grays Harbor and our own OcOsta by
the sea. Most of those who own summer
homes here are Portland people with few
from The Dalles and the Willamette val
ley, and the new residences going up are
much more substantial and pretentious
than the primitive structures of few
years back. 1t is an amusing sight to
watch the crowds of bathers from the doors
and windows ofour rOOmy house, situated
on ridge not more than 200 feet from the
water at nigh tide as they emerge in every
phase of dripping garb from She "briny
deep" for run through the sands fol
their wraps to a near or more distant
home; for bathing houses or bathing
coaches as yet are not in general use or
this shore. l have felt no inclination to
Join these surf-seekers, for to one who has
been so often and so severely a martyr tC
sea sickness as have l, the effect of looking
upon these grewsome waves in the grey
dull, fOggy atmosphere, which has so pre-.
vailed until the last few days, produces a
"mal aise" similar to that of being GRADED
upon
THE VAST DEEP" ITSELF
with an inner consciousness that to "sDel
it with N, Samivel," were the better way
In the early mornings the clam diggers a
ebb tide, far out toward the horizon, loon
up in the fog like narrow rugged schOoners
and appear like the stilt-Walkers of tn,
Landes in the marshes of France as re
lated in that clever and amusing book
"Claret and Olives" by whom l have for
gotten. Companies A ana O are in camI
within stones throw of us, and thei
white tents among the young green frs ar,
quite picturesque, and the soldiers in thei
bright uniforms, with the capes of thei
coats turned back, lined with yellow O.
crimson, flash along the beach in thl
murky light of this gray Au
buoy hoJ Will eAlC BdyGby anu uOWbIlnbS
of an Elizabethan song" as Mrs. Humph
rey Ward describes the effect of the pinl
and white phlOxes in the rectory garder
at Murewell in Robert Elsemere," tn,
suitable application of which quotation
shall leave to the perspicacity of m
readers.
Three days of brilliancy and brightness
dazzle and sparkle, with neither fog in th
atmosphere nor chill in the air, make tn
pulses leap and spirits bound as if unde
the influence of exhilarating gas, causin
us to forget that there are days when tn
fires will neither burn on our hearths no
in our hearts, and the world calls us dul
when we are only sad. This is the paradis
of unfettered life for children, Wanderin
at their own sweet wills
OVER THE SMOOTH SAND,
throwing up Notifications and embank
ments with 1t, digging wells and buildin
houses in it, cutting out pies and cake
from 1t, dancing round the bOnfires a
night, OF padding and wading bare-legge
and bare-footed by day, drinking in healt
and strength with every new coat of tar
and sleeping the sleep of the blessed a
soon as their curly heads touch the pillow
Inspired by one of these glorious days W
drove with our milkman out through
pleasant country road, with its over-reach
ing FIR boughs to the new toWnsite of Oceal
Grove, near which lies his farm; and hom
by the beach at high tide, through the in
coming waves, which at at every ebb an
flow seemed to be swaying us in on shor
or drifting us out to sea, with an apparen
reality difficult to dispel. More anon.