The Republican., 1892-09-09
SummerIng In the Clades.

ing how the summer visitor at Oak
land spends the time:
The inducements for summering
at Oakland are quiet time and
mountain air that rests and strength
ems. The summer colony at the
Oakland Hotel has numbered two
hundred anG twenty-five when it
was at its height. The long, low
building rambles along the side of
a rounded mountain under the
shelter of giant oaks that over
hang and frame it about. The
people lounge away the summer
days and practically live on the
wide perches that look out
upon lawns that stretch away
and are lost IN a grove. Mountain
air is supposed to be braclng, yet
the capacious wicSer-work rocking
chairs play havoc with the new
comers' good resolutions about
exercise. The constitutional be-
fore breakfast is along the path
leading to the Washington Spring
so named because, it is said, the
Father of his Country once drank
Its waters.
AT most resorts tennis is popu-
lar after breakfast diversion, but
tennis died a-borning at Oakland.
A gallant but lnjudicious clerk at
tempted to boom the sport, but he
went INTO it so extensively that his
employer told him to HE himself to
pastures new. Since then there
has been no tennis. Instead
of frantically chasing a fugitive
ball IN the sun the girls now 60 in
for bowling and billiards, which
exercise allows them to strike grace
full attitudes.
Every morning there is a two
hours concert by Ross Jungnick-
els orchestra, which concentrates
everybody about the lobby. MIR.
Jungnckel has band OF artists
with him, and he likes to render
classical music. August was made
for light music, and, being acco.
modating, he gave medley which
included Ia ra, ra ra, boom-de-ay.
of the many operate and classi-
cal selections this made the hit of
the season.
After concert time the people
SIT on the porches while the bret zes
bow the trees and snap the ribbons
on the girls dresses. Every other
person has novel, but the husband
enjoys his Reina Victoria and the
elderly ladies knit. Business men
play hand ball with he children,
and here and there are groups of
takers. Gossips, however, are
scarce, as there are no titled per-
sons to arouse suspicion, and social
rivals do not question each others
pedigrees and say it is necessary to
wear overcoats, not on account of
the temperature, but because Mrs.
Blank is so frigidly exclusive.
The brcken-down city man finds
that dinner is the most important
thing to occupy his thoughts. 1t
is also the opportunity for the
young man to see his best girl try
to be graceful and eat corn from
the cob. After the noonday meal
the hotel looks as if it were unoc-
cupied, as the boarders go to sleep.
Every chair on the porches is un-
occupied and not soul Is about
Even the wind seems to die out.
Afternoon drives in buck boards
(Which always seem IN imminent
danger of breaking in half to the
top of a neighboring mountain is
the destination of every one at
least once. The observer can see
INTO four states or watch storms
gather IN the valleys below.
The city man who is accustomed
to looking mp through CANYONS of
houses for glimpses of the heavens
wonders how far it is to the horizon.
and half suspects that the giant
Goliah himself, if he came tramp
ing this way. would stump his toes
over the many ridges. Real estate
boomers used to say that the coun.
try round about was 2, 900 feet above
the sea. Next, by some extraordi-
nary means, the mountains went
up to height of 5000 feet. They
must be sinking now, as the latest
quotation is ,, 700 feet. Still every-
BODY knows the situation is high
enough to insure comfort in the
hottest weather, and that Is suffi-
clent. 1t is too cold to stav on the
porches at night, and everybody
remains within doors. About
thirty mothers and as many chill
dren have an impromptu baby show
in the parlor, while the young peo.
pie dance in the ballroom. The
arrival of the last train, at 10
o clock, makes a final period for
the day's doinps. and tho whole