Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1894-07-12
DOWN BY THE SEASIDE.
Refreshing Even to Read of Visit
to an Historic Spot.
AsnuRy PARK. NEw JKRsEy. Julv

to an Historic Spot.
AsBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY, July 5.
DEAR READERs:- see by the
dispatches that the thermometer
stood at 10 in the territory Sun
day. This is twenty degrees above
what that instrument-not of tor.
ture but measuring torture -indi-
Gated here during the past few af-
ternOons. As at all watering
places and summer resorts we are
assured this is "most remarkable;
the worst weather ever known. I"
There are more able bodied
weather liars in the world than fish
liars, if possible, and the percent
age seems unusually large at sum-
mer and health resorts. But the
weather here has been delightful,
as contrasted with that which vi
nita had during payment. There
was little comfort in the even
forty-eight hours travel from
Vinita to Philadelphia, though two
or three light showers were passed
through. But the last few hours
of the journey were delightful, the
road threading its way along the
beach, over marsh and bayou, the
cool sea breeze, salt laden, floating
in through the car window, here
aud there a sail and on every ia
vorable spot a handsome cottage;
not to indulge in too extravagant
language, it was like peep into
fairy land. To denizen OF the
arid section of the country there is
no landscape SO pleasing as one
which is made up chiefly of water.
The craigs and precipices Of the
mountains inspire awe, perhaps.
but the ocean inspires awe and
gives pleasure too. As we sit
watching the waves roll in the
thought comes that through all
the centuries since the moment of
creation this has been continuous.
The seashore is an earthly para
disc for children. They are per-
mitted, dressed in their best, to
roll around in the sand just as they
would be on the most carefully
busted carpet at home; and it does
not soil their clothes, either
Handsomer children and more Of
them it would be hard to find. a
few years ago only the rich felt
able to visit the seaside; now there
are here many from the middle
walks of life and not a few who are
apparently in very moderate cir
cumstances. In health, that great
est of all blessings, they are doubt
less fully compensated for what
at first seems like an unwarranted
outlay. In the fair and healthy
compilations and hearty appetites
are manifested the beneficial re-
suits.
Tuesday evening | took my first
surf bath and / can't say that it
came fully up to expectations.
though the time was most mop
perfume, as the tide was at its
highest and the waves buffeted a
person around very much as that
bear did the Armenian when the
boys at home put "high life" on
his back. A few people can swim
in the ocean; most Of the bathers
content themselves with holding to
the ropes stretched out into the sea
and letting the waves break over
them. The water is cold-about
sixty-eight degrees. To-day quite
a party went out in sloop for a
deep-sea fish, some ten miles from
shore. Black or deep. sea bass are
the choicest varieties of this sec
ton and quite a good number were
caught ranging in weight up TO five
pounds; other fish Of inferior quail
ity and some OF hideous shape
were also caught. On the whole
it was a pleasantly spent forenoon
and well worth the time and dol
lar Of expense, though all the fish
were caught in less than an hour.
All the towns on the coast are
chiefly made up Of hotels; do not
think there is private residence
in four or five bracks about the
house whsre we are quartered.
They have only been open for the
season about two or three weeks
and by the middle and last Of Sep
tember will be closed again. The
season is short and the price OF
board proportionately long, though
on the whole, quite reasonable.
! wish the carpenters who are
converting Vinita into a city would
take a trip through this section OF
the land. II should have the ef-
feet to relieve the town of its dis
tressing sameness Of architecture.
We might as a result have some
thing beside l. and T houses. The
painters too, could get some
points.
Yesterday. the 4th. we visited
the sctne Of the famous Reyolu-